yeah kubota and case market still adfordable wich is nice

I should also mention I am located in Michigan and after checking your location the high used prices make sense. I have seen quite a bit of high dollar used equipment in Canada.

New equipment is absurdly dependent on manufacturer intervention if something breaks. When talking about agriculture, one day's downtime could mean that you miss the season and incur thousands in losses. Good ol' farm equipment has value in simplicity. Sure, it may not have GPS, moisture sensors, ABS, ESP etc, but you can be sure that the max downtime is in the order of hours if you have a big enough hammer. To service a tractor with software controlled digital systems means waiting days for an authorized technician to come and reset your fault codes. If it's out of warranty you also pay hundreds if not thousands for said technician to come. For example: DPF (diesel particulate filter) catching fire. This happens because organic agricultural products release a lot of flammable dust during harvesting. When such a fault occurs, the equipment CPU automatically puts the equipment in service mode, meaning you can't get more than 20-30% power and max revs out of the engine. To reset that fault, a technician must come from hundreds or thousands of miles away to plug in their proprietary software and reset the code. An old mechanical tractor would still keep working short of a nuclear bomb going off inside the engine.