Why does farming equipment require such low horsepower compared to your average car?

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Why does farming equipment require such low horsepower compared to your average car?

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Horsepower is a fictional number. It’s an equation using Torque and RPM to determine horsepower. People have said “horsepower is how fast the car hits the wall torque is how far you move the wall” because torque is the actual force you apply to the work you are doing. Since it doesn’t matter how fast you move your goal is the most amount of torque at a low rpm.