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<blockquote data-quote="Kiwi Pete" data-source="post: 7328841" data-attributes="member: 63856"><p>What an interesting thread topic.</p><p></p><p>I'm literally in a time warp, and happy about it.</p><p></p><p>40 years ago I was in nappies <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🙄" title="Face with rolling eyes :rolling_eyes:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" data-shortname=":rolling_eyes:" /> but the family had 709ac, running 1200 stock units (sheep ones!) between two brothers. </p><p>We run more stock on 104 acres.</p><p></p><p>120hp between a Same Corsaro 70 and a Super Major. </p><p>=5.9ac per hp</p><p>About 350 machine hours per year with hay and a paddock of swedes/mangolds</p><p>= ½hr per ac</p><p></p><p>Jump to now, we run 104 ac with 90hp</p><p>=1.15ac per hp</p><p></p><p>will maybe do 30 hrs on it this year on maintenance stuff (firewood, potholes in the driveway, spreading compost) as I don't think we'll repeat the covercropping experiment. 56 hrs for 2020.</p><p>= ½hr per ac </p><p></p><p>Time input, hard to say as it's always been about lifestyle. I want to spend about 100 hours actually working (moving cattle) as that's not much effort.</p><p></p><p>Land value is the big change, they sold 709ac for $2.1 mill in 2005 and we paid $1.1m for 104ac in 2016. </p><p>We have quite a debt loading so we're pretty intensive - we payback the bank in a year what they turned over between 1979 and 1981 <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😳" title="Flushed face :flushed:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/6.5/png/unicode/64/1f633.png" data-shortname=":flushed:" /> and still net 3x what their books showed as "net profit" per annum. Interesting stuff to compare.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Kiwi Pete, post: 7328841, member: 63856"] What an interesting thread topic. I'm literally in a time warp, and happy about it. 40 years ago I was in nappies 🙄 but the family had 709ac, running 1200 stock units (sheep ones!) between two brothers. We run more stock on 104 acres. 120hp between a Same Corsaro 70 and a Super Major. =5.9ac per hp About 350 machine hours per year with hay and a paddock of swedes/mangolds = ½hr per ac Jump to now, we run 104 ac with 90hp =1.15ac per hp will maybe do 30 hrs on it this year on maintenance stuff (firewood, potholes in the driveway, spreading compost) as I don't think we'll repeat the covercropping experiment. 56 hrs for 2020. = ½hr per ac Time input, hard to say as it's always been about lifestyle. I want to spend about 100 hours actually working (moving cattle) as that's not much effort. Land value is the big change, they sold 709ac for $2.1 mill in 2005 and we paid $1.1m for 104ac in 2016. We have quite a debt loading so we're pretty intensive - we payback the bank in a year what they turned over between 1979 and 1981 😳 and still net 3x what their books showed as "net profit" per annum. Interesting stuff to compare. [/QUOTE]
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