Contract spraying business start up .

[Farmer Dan 42]

No being honest was a good exercise . Would of been nice for them to have went with the proposal but none the less it's worked out well either way

 

[Farmer Dan 42]

Hang on a minute,something doesn’t stack up here




Kidding!!

 

[D14]

12 passes minimum . As stated before I only wanted 6000ha of there work to make it pay going my own way . I spray minimium of 12000ac a year on high value veg that's worth upto 1k a tonne . The rogator isn't 300k it's actually 270k with a 5 year warranty and maintenance package included. It's on a lease deal also . Anything else you require ? We are not arable farmers . We are veg farmers . How many times do I have to repeat myself in saying 6000ha was only the number I needed to make it pay for myself to spray if ffs

No need to have a mardy. Irrelevant of the type of crop involved, your business has very high sprayer costs, which the owners accept due to the type of business they are running. But the figures speak for themselves. Total of 12,000ha of work with £540,000 worth of sprayers. Those sprayers will be worth £80,000-£100,000 so the lease price will reflect that, as will the added in warranty and service package.

But it’s not cheap by any means. The right sized sprayer will cost under £2/acre ALL IN and no way are those two rogators costing that. I’ll be 3 times that cost, but if that’s what’s right for the business then that’s fine, but don’t get your thong in a twist.

 

[Precision specialists]

No need to have a mardy. Irrelevant of the type of crop involved, your business has very high sprayer costs, which the owners accept due to the type of business they are running. But the figures speak for themselves. Total of 12,000ha of work with £540,000 worth of sprayers. Those sprayers will be worth £80,000-£100,000 so the lease price will reflect that, as will the added in warranty and service package.

But it’s not cheap by any means. The right sized sprayer will cost under £2/acre ALL IN and no way are those two rogators costing that. I’ll be 3 times that cost, but if that’s what’s right for the business then that’s fine, but don’t get your thong in a twist.

Not having a mardy but I don't see what people's issue are. I seen a thing last night on a group where a man has 2 24m sprayers for spraying 5000ac of cereals and he wants to go to 36m asking if he would cope with one machine . Nearly everyone who commented said stick to 2 machines so does that make him in the wrong for doing this also . What works for our business might not work for someone else's..

 

[teslacoils]

I'd expect the cost of misstimed spraying in high value salad and veg makes a slightly higher cost per acre seem insignificant.

 

[Brisel]

Don't worry about it . Clearly some jealous people on here who think they are right in everything they do

Well, this is the internet where anyone with a keyboard can have a go...

For what it's worth, I've learned lots in here. You'll soon learn who is worth reading and whose opinions you might not want to get wound up about.

 

[Still Farming]

Wow!!

Vegans love Veg allegedly?

 

[D14]

Not having a mardy but I don't see what people's issue are. I seen a thing last night on a group where a man has 2 24m sprayers for spraying 5000ac of cereals and he wants to go to 36m asking if he would cope with one machine . Nearly everyone who commented said stick to 2 machines so does that make him in the wrong for doing this also . What works for our business might not work for someone else's..

Yes he was running 1 x 24m SP and 1 x 24m trailed, both older machines.

I could understand your situation if you had bought 2 x 36m used rogators at £100,000 each. But as you say it’s high value crops so obviously a much higher price per acre is acceptable. We used to spray 1000ac of potatoes and 1000ac cereals (with liquid fert) with a used forward control chafer that cost £15,000. Did the job for 10 years no problem. No longer in the potato game but sounds like the jobs changed and suddenly veg is worth a lot more than it was 10 years ago.