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Should he buy a sprayer?
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<blockquote data-quote="Beefsmith" data-source="post: 6471898" data-attributes="member: 133822"><p>My cousin in Scotland has put a question to me. He’s inheriting a 350ac farm from his parents. The farm was in a cfa which is ending this September due to the cf retiring himself. My cousin whilst growing up on the farm is a private sports physio doing very well at it but going to take the farm back in hand and reduce his physio hours. It’s mixed cropping with cereals, beans, grass. He’s wondering about the spraying as contractors are around £5/acre and we’ve worked it out he’ll spray a total of 3000 acres per year including liquid fertiliser as there’s tanks on farm from the cfa which are staying in place. So a contractors going to cost him £15,000/year. He’s already bought a 230hp used tractor and isn’t afraid of buying something smaller as well. The cf was running a 36m system and my cousin says that size suits the fields reducing the number of short work in each field. So he’s thinking something 30-36m in size. It’s generally flat ground not far from Edinburgh but due to his physio job he wants something with decent output. Crop splits are 50% cereals, 15% grass, 35% spring beans. The retiring contractors machine isn’t an option as it’s a large SP.</p><p>What does the forum think? What budget and what machine? It needs to be reliable so it can just be turned on and off it goes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Beefsmith, post: 6471898, member: 133822"] My cousin in Scotland has put a question to me. He’s inheriting a 350ac farm from his parents. The farm was in a cfa which is ending this September due to the cf retiring himself. My cousin whilst growing up on the farm is a private sports physio doing very well at it but going to take the farm back in hand and reduce his physio hours. It’s mixed cropping with cereals, beans, grass. He’s wondering about the spraying as contractors are around £5/acre and we’ve worked it out he’ll spray a total of 3000 acres per year including liquid fertiliser as there’s tanks on farm from the cfa which are staying in place. So a contractors going to cost him £15,000/year. He’s already bought a 230hp used tractor and isn’t afraid of buying something smaller as well. The cf was running a 36m system and my cousin says that size suits the fields reducing the number of short work in each field. So he’s thinking something 30-36m in size. It’s generally flat ground not far from Edinburgh but due to his physio job he wants something with decent output. Crop splits are 50% cereals, 15% grass, 35% spring beans. The retiring contractors machine isn’t an option as it’s a large SP. What does the forum think? What budget and what machine? It needs to be reliable so it can just be turned on and off it goes. [/QUOTE]
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