Spraying contractor charges

[Hereward]

I'm very out of touch with spray contractor charges, last time I had some done it was £4/acre imagine far more now.

200 litres per ha pre-ems and post em herbicides what's the going rate.

 

[grainboy]

Well I packed up spraying contracting yr 2000,
18,000 ac yr,
£2.75 / £3.25 and that wasn’t enough £ then,

 

[Farmer Roy]

$11 / ha for broadacre spraying

$15 / ha for camera / weedit spraying

plus fuel

 

[Richard Smyth]

Well I packed up spraying contracting yr 2000,
18,000 ac yr,
£2.75 / £3.25 and that wasn’t enough £ then,

Not much more than that price here for spraying now. Maybe that’s why I have to do 140000 acres per year to make it pay.

 

[grainboy]

400 ac every day of the year ?

 

[Sprayer 1]

Not much more than that price here for spraying now. Maybe that’s why I have to do 140000 acres per year to make it pay.

Bloody hell, and I thought I was busy. I struggle to find enough spray days to do a fifth of that.

 

[woodylane]

£16/ha

 

[Sam Partridge]

For the tiny amount we have done we charged for travel as well, usually worked out about £6/acre

 

[Spud]

£4.50/ac for bigger jobs or where we do everything. Its a bit cheap for slower pre em high volume work, but probably top side for 100l/ha fungicide work, so it averages out ok

 

[Handy Andy]

My sprayer man charged me £5-50 per ha last bill.

 

[Spud]

My sprayer man charged me £5-50 per ha last bill.

£5.50/ha? Do you not mean per acre?

 

[Handy Andy]

£5.50/ha? Do you not mean per acre?

Yes! Well spotted.

 

[Will 1594]

400 ac every day of the year ?

probably 10000 acre paddocks 200 ft sprayer putting 60 ltr on at 45 k

 

[Spencer]

probably 10000 acre paddocks 200 ft sprayer putting 60 ltr on at 45 k

Think he’s on 65k

 

[Richard Smyth]

400 ac every day of the year ?

Best day was 1700 ac. Big areas and big fields. With crap weather at times I usually average 5000 ac per week. Best week was 7500.

 

[Spud]

Best day was 1700 ac. Big areas and big fields. With crap weather at times I usually average 5000 ac per week. Best week was 7500.

What's your boom size/water rate/forward speed?

 

[Richard Smyth]

probably 10000 acre paddocks 200 ft sprayer putting 60 ltr on at 45 k

Range from 20 ac to 1250 ac fields. 120 ft, 12200 liter tank and up to 27 kmh spray speed. 70 liter ha

 

[Richard Smyth]

What's your boom size/water rate/forward speed?

Just put it all in another reply

 

[thorpe]

Yes! Well spotted.

thank goodness, i thought for a moment i was dick turpin!

 

[Chae1]

Charge some customers £7/acre. Small awkward fields. I supply water, filling area dispose of containers. Others £5.

Place I was sprayer operator on in Australia 1000.acres a day was easy. Just 3 loads. 24m sprayer, but near 30k forward speed and 40l/ha water volume. On MX240 case magnum.