Stubble to stubble rates

Brisel

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Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
£150 sounds about average for strong land needing a plough at least rotationally. Some lower rates for DD systems and lighter soils. No management, storage, agronomy etc in that.
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
That's if you want to do nothing. For £150 I'd expect my yard bloody tidy, rats eradicated, and all the little annoying jobs that I think I would do myself but in reality wouldn't.

And moling as needed. And hedges. But probably not ditching.
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Easy working farm?

Plough £20/acre
Drill/£25 acre
Roll £5/acre
Spray x4 £20
Fert x 2 £10
Combine £40
£120/acre total

What am I missing?

The extras to get to £150:

Load in, push up, load out, hedge cutting, general tidying, insurance, three more spray passes.

Granted, rolling, spraying, spreading are only really costing £1.50/AC.
 

Chae1

Member
Location
Aberdeenshire
The extras to get to £150:

Load in, push up, load out, hedge cutting, general tidying, insurance, three more spray passes.

Granted, rolling, spraying, spreading are only really costing £1.50/AC.

You guys must spray a lot more than we do up here. I have only sprayed winter barley 3x will get glyphosate. So 4 total.

Most spring barley just 2 passes.

It says stubble to stubble, I'm just tipping it in shed. Not load it out again or tidying up.
 

teslacoils

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Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
Winter barley would be pre drill glypho, two herbicides, three fungicides, glypho again. Subsoil, disc& press, roll, drill, roll. Three passes fert to include p&k. Cut, cart, push up. Not light land though. For wheat add a pass of fert and spray.

Tbh spring barley on light land will be much less work.

I get someone in for the cutting, draught work. Keep the easy bits.
 

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