For 5 to 30 acres of pasture, a 25 to 50 PTO-HP compact tractor with a 6-foot rotary cutter, a chain harrow or pasture drag, and a rear blade handles clipping, manure spreading, and minor renovation. Step up to 40+ HP if you'll run a 3-point seeder and overseed annually.
Pasture is a maintenance category, not a one-time project. The right tractor handles weekly clipping in the growing season, regular drag harrowing after rotational grazing, and shoulder-season overseeding with the same setup.
Heads up: this list is filtered on PTO horsepower only. Drive type and engine horsepower aren't filter criteria here, so check each one on the model's spec sheet before you buy.
Attachment classes covered on this page: rotary-cutter, rear-blade, landscape-rake, box-blade, Listed PTO HP, 22 to 55 HP, Rotary cutter, 6 to 7 ft, 2 in capacity, Drag/harrow, 6 to 8 ft chain or tine, Tires, R1 ag for traction, R3 turf for sensitive ground. Recommended models are filtered live from the tractor and implement records, so a newly verified model appears here automatically. The list is filtered only on the criteria this job requires: horsepower, loader capacity, hitch category, three-point lift or sub-compact class. Other figures in the spec grid describe the job and do not filter the list, so check each against the model's own spec sheet. Each figure comes from manufacturer documentation with its source and verification date on the record.