Stubble to stubble rates

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Spraying and spreading only cost that if everything brought to the field and spreader loaded.
£1 extra for trailer, bowser, forklift, man?, or for travelling back to yard.

Edit. And that's without cropping plans/meetings, crop walking, pricing, ordering, unloading and storing inputs.

Even with some faff, spraying rolling and spreading remain the most profitable bits of contracting. I'd expect on a stubble to stubble *not* to be ordering chem, arranging spray plans, filling in bps. I prefer to see the farm from the sprayer seat tbh.
 

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
whats a rough fuel cost for stubble to stubble?

All litres/ha;
Plough 26
Topdown deep cultivating 25
Subsoil 23
Power harrow 19
Vaderstad Rapid drill 10
Power harrow combination 20
Roll 2.5
Spray 1.2
Fertiliser 1.2 (not including fertiliser handling)
Combine 18

A plough/combi/roll/6xspray/3xfert/combine is over 77 l/ha not including fertiliser handling nor grain carting & forklift in the yard nor drying. At 52 ppl that's £40/ha. Make it £43/ha for handling and that does not include drying.
 

Sandy

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Location
Aberdeenshire
All litres/ha;
Plough 26
Topdown deep cultivating 25
Subsoil 23
Power harrow 19
Vaderstad Rapid drill 10
Power harrow combination 20
Roll 2.5
Spray 1.2
Fertiliser 1.2 (not including fertiliser handling)
Combine 18

A plough/combi/roll/6xspray/3xfert/combine is over 77 l/ha not including fertiliser handling nor grain carting & forklift in the yard nor drying. At 52 ppl that's £40/ha. Make it £43/ha for handling and that does not include drying.
That’s a lot of diesel to make a seed bed I’m using 25l/ha to plough, combidrill powerharrow grain/fert
 

Farma Parma

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Arable Farmer
Location
Northumberlandia
All litres/ha;
Plough 26
Topdown deep cultivating 25
Subsoil 23
Power harrow 19
Vaderstad Rapid drill 10
Power harrow combination 20
Roll 2.5
Spray 1.2
Fertiliser 1.2 (not including fertiliser handling)
Combine 18

A plough/combi/roll/6xspray/3xfert/combine is over 77 l/ha not including fertiliser handling nor grain carting & forklift in the yard nor drying. At 52 ppl that's £40/ha. Make it £43/ha for handling and that does not include drying.

Thats more realistic
ive got land that iam subbying whole field this year because of previous not intentional damage made after peas but to put it right or atleast give it a better chance it needs all subsoiled.
37ac field. mostly heavy clay.
Its also going to have muck spread on it & it will be ploughed in.
It will cost what it costs its me doing it will all my gear.
Plenty other land here that needs working after ploughing sometimes just a PH sometimes a Simba Press & odd times both all infront of the PH/Combi Drill.
other land you could follow the plough but not every year.
This spring i had about 100ac all was ploughed, two since Oct2nd 2020 thats into Winter Oats
Everything was PH infront by me no second man needed. the amount of Stones in some of the land has been interesting.
So de-stoned also.
All Drilled with PH/Combi.
all Rolled with new 8.2m Vaderstad the Fendt of Rollers imho & the dearest mind.
Things coming up quite well considering the dry spell, 45mm plus since April 26th tho thank someone.

Such a variation of diff stubble to stubble rates its a minefield.
 

Jackall

Member
I have used around 90 to 100 litres a ha for the last 10 years. This total usage for crop establishment a mixture of ploughing, trio and combi or press/ time drilling. Rotational moling. All work on the farm is done in house.
 

spin cycle

Member
Location
north norfolk
All litres/ha;
Plough 26
Topdown deep cultivating 25
Subsoil 23
Power harrow 19
Vaderstad Rapid drill 10
Power harrow combination 20
Roll 2.5
Spray 1.2
Fertiliser 1.2 (not including fertiliser handling)
Combine 18

A plough/combi/roll/6xspray/3xfert/combine is over 77 l/ha not including fertiliser handling nor grain carting & forklift in the yard nor drying. At 52 ppl that's £40/ha. Make it £43/ha for handling and that does not include drying.

fekkin ell......modern kit must be thirsty :oops: .....my little dommy 76 burns 5l hour and cuts 2ac....ploughing i use 7l/ha
 

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