Farm Equipment: How Big Is Too Big?

The latest farm equipment at the KMOT Ag Expo is bigger and badder than ever.

It`s all to meet the changing needs of farmers.

"It really just comes down to the economics of - I have this much to do and this much time and I have to have the machinery that`s capable of doing that with the manpower I have," Brad Meyer of Gooseneck Implement says.

One combine packs 440 horsepower and can harvest 25 to 30 acres every hour, more than twice as much as the largest machine could reap a decade ago.

On the other side of the State Fair Center, there`s a 600 plus horsepower corn chopper that can travel at five miles per hour while doing its job.

"The trend is going to bigger equipment all the way around," says Alfans Allmaras of Butler Equipment.

What makes farm machinery this big even possible is the technology inside the cab.

A GPS system and self-steering mean a farmer can easily handle this machine without touching the wheel.