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Big money: ‘It is often hard to understand how these costly machines can be justified and indeed afforded’

Martin O'Sullivan

I recently attended a charity tractor run in my local town and I was astonished at the array of large, very expensive, relatively new tractors on parade.

There were a number of ‘mature models’ such as Massey 165s and Ford 5000s, but the majority were machines that would have cost upwards of €70k, including a good number worth well north of €100k.