Farming 300 ha of crops on your own? Anyone else at it and what kit do you use?
- Thread starter rickane
- Start date
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I moved up to 36m last autumn and I've not regretted it,just be aware of slow boom folding times,I'm looking after a bit more land,with quite a few small fields,move over to liquid fert which helps too.
Running a jd 5430i.
Running a jd 5430i.
36m is great in a straight line. Not so good on curving fields.
Lots around here on 30m which fits a 6m drill but not a 4m one unless you have good auto steer on the sprayer to lay your own tramlines.
There are greater considerations for fertiliser at 36m unless you are liquid.
Lots around here on 30m which fits a 6m drill but not a 4m one unless you have good auto steer on the sprayer to lay your own tramlines.
There are greater considerations for fertiliser at 36m unless you are liquid.
- Location
- south norfolk
You must need massive fields for 36m sprayers.biggest i got is 33 acres but several at 9/12/1417/20 and no of a regular shape
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ollie989898
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I thought in other threads we had all agreed that using the drill to set tramlines was now old-school and that you are better to just drill the stuff however you like and drive the sprayer where you wish by using GPS. This being better due to less run off and the sprayer would travel better on ground that had something growing in it?
That being the case the drill can be whatever you like so long as your method of applying fertiliser and sprayer fit perfectly?
That being the case the drill can be whatever you like so long as your method of applying fertiliser and sprayer fit perfectly?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No not really I've got a 8ac with 10 corners on a hill side, auto section control+boom height makes it easier than my old 24m.
Just take it steady when turning on the headland as they do whip round.
cosmagedon
Member
- Location
- North Wales
@Flintstone is farming a 1000 acres with a very efficient set up on his own.
Tractor Boy
Member
- Location
- Suffolk
I am farming that sort of hectareage on my own. Just get harvest help to cart. I use a 750a to direct drill, a 24m trailed sprayer and a 24m spinner. Also got my own 12yr old 7.5m axial flow 2388 and that is pretty much it.
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Ask me again in 12 months!
Plan is,
24m tramlines for the time being, rising to 30 in a year or two and liquid N
At the moment
3m claydon
24m sp sprayer
Fert spinner
12m rolls
7.5m rotary combine
200hp tractor
140hp tractor
2x jcb loadalls
Simba dtx
Kv tine drill
4m powerharrow
Spring tines
Assorted old cultivation equipment
New plan
3m claydon
10m rolls
30m trailed sprayer
5m vaddy carrier
180/200hp tractor
Existing combine
1 loadall
Existing fert spinner for compound
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
In one block or split?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
2 blocks 1/3rd 2/3rds 4 miles apart. Grain storage at both farms.
welger
Member
- Location
- derbyshire
we have 240 acre there is me and 1 other fulltime man and a tiny bit of part time.
we grow 100 acre of grain
20 acre of spuds which we bag and sell at the door
70 beef cows and followers which we take to fat
make a bit of haylage for the horsey market
do all the work ourselves
good modern kit
so what are we messing about at if one man can farm 300 ha
we grow 100 acre of grain
20 acre of spuds which we bag and sell at the door
70 beef cows and followers which we take to fat
make a bit of haylage for the horsey market
do all the work ourselves
good modern kit
so what are we messing about at if one man can farm 300 ha
- Location
- Bedfordshire
I would only modify that by keeping both Loadalls, one on each farm? Best thing we ever did was keep the old Loadall when we got a newer one.
Fair play to you for supporting 2 families on 240acres. I bet you keep it all nice as well.
82, 46,46,35.. smallest really 15, all flat. My only problem is high rainfall AR 50 inches so soft ground
Spuds and animals take a bit of looking after!
Similar ideas, might treat myself to jcb 4220 to do it all in comfort! ;-)