Typical power/size vs. acreage?

[7610 super q]

8hp per acre, if I include forklifts.
Tractors have to do 2 things here....
(1) Sow crops.
(2) Increase in value.

Edit... (3) Gather likes on FB.

 

[corkman2013]

16hp per acre.
19000 total hours.
All paid for and probably increasing in value.

 

[teslacoils]

I'm less bothered about hp per acre . I like £££ tied up in gear per acre, and profit per acre.

 

[dave mountain]

surprised we havent heard from the hill farmers bragging about covering 7000 acres with a ford 5610 and a 35x

 

[Lowland1]

I'm perplexed by those who describe a shed full of big kit as "impressive", I've always been more impressed by those who seem to get by with the bare minimum. Says he who has about 3.5 hp/acre.

I reckon the more stuff you have the better the most important thing is the cost of it all.

 

[Spud]

1000hp here between 6 tractors between 7 and 26yrs old, and 39800hrs between them doing everything on 950acres (includes 250ac potatoes) and 1200 pigs. Straw baled, all potatoes stored.
so 1.05hp per acre
3 telehandlers, NH CX760 combine (puts hp/ac up to 1.7)
Everything in house except beet harvesting and hedgecutting
Nothing hired except muckspreader
2 full time plus me, up to 4 part time plus grading staff
two tractors hired for potato planting and harvesting (owned & operated by two of the part time men)
Average field size on this farm 11ac, overall it's nearer 15acres (lots of headlands!)

 

[7610 super q]

surprised we havent heard from the hill farmers bragging about covering 7000 acres with a ford 5610 and a 35x

Not many proper farmers on TFF unfortunately.

 

[betternextyear]

my largest tractor is 140 hp on 300 acres. So all my neighbours think I am a hobby farmer.

 

[An Gof]

1000hp here between 6 tractors between 7 and 26yrs old, and 39800hrs between them doing everything on 950acres (includes 250ac potatoes) and 1200 pigs. Straw baled, all potatoes stored.
so 1.05hp per acre
3 telehandlers, NH CX760 combine (puts hp/ac up to 1.7)
Everything in house except beet harvesting and hedgecutting
Nothing hired except muckspreader
2 full time plus me, up to 4 part time plus grading staff
two tractors hired for potato planting and harvesting

I hope @White rabbit doesn’t see this post. He thinks you only have a vegetable plot of potatoes

 

[curiousnonfarmer]

Wow, plenty of responses - I certainly appreciate all of them, so thank you!

Would it be fair to say most implements (seeders, cultis etc) are probably in the region of 3-6m wide, up to a few hundred acres of field? I honestly didn't expect so many responses to be that of <150hp in tractor units, especially across so many acres. I guess Farm Simulator doesn't really paint an accurate picture

 

[Drillman]

1003hp on 300 acre here.

30,000hrs approx total

3 tractors SP Sprayer combine and loader

newest is 3 year old oldest 36 year old

 

[agri knives]

I'm perplexed by those who describe a shed full of big kit as "impressive", I've always been more impressed by those who seem to get by with the bare minimum. Says he who has about 3.5 hp/acre.

I’m farming 160 acres and doing hire work, I am delighted to have a shed full of machinery and every year I change or buy extra machines , they all have to pay for themselves . The day I retire I will call an auction of all the machinery , if I did it today I’d have about €7-800,000 worth over what I owe on finance . Won’t be a bad payday.

 

[D14]

0.92hp/ac not including combine as that’s a contractor so we have no control over the size.

 

[traineefarmer]

Wow, plenty of responses - I certainly appreciate all of them, so thank you!

Would it be fair to say most implements (seeders, cultis etc) are probably in the region of 3-6m wide, up to a few hundred acres of field? I honestly didn't expect so many responses to be that of <150hp in tractor units, especially across so many acres. I guess Farm Simulator doesn't really paint an accurate picture

I saw a friend playing Farm Simulator. I asked how big his loss was and he replied that he was in profit. I then realised it was only a game.

 

[PSQ]

For work: 450hp between 2 tractors and 435 acres, 62 acres average field size, all arable.
For play: 1200hp split between 5 vehicles. Got to get the priorities right

 

[teslacoils]

Wow, plenty of responses - I certainly appreciate all of them, so thank you!

Would it be fair to say most implements (seeders, cultis etc) are probably in the region of 3-6m wide, up to a few hundred acres of field? I honestly didn't expect so many responses to be that of <150hp in tractor units, especially across so many acres. I guess Farm Simulator doesn't really paint an accurate picture

The second hand market for gear over 6m is very limited. You can get a second hand 8m drill as cheap as a 6m one.

 

[4course]

I’m farming 160 acres and doing hire work, I am delighted to have a shed full of machinery and every year I change or buy extra machines , they all have to pay for themselves . The day I retire I will call an auction of all the machinery , if I did it today I’d have about €7-800,000 worth over what I owe on finance . Won’t be a bad payday.

might not be so good once the tax man gets his nose in to the written down values

 

[Lincsman]

The heaviest soils take double the horsepower than the lightest soils, for the same implement.

 

[Will 1594]

10 tractors from 53 grey fergy ,to 16;plate 215 r ,1140 hp
2 loadalls 93 and o3 plus 4 ton industrial ,
660 claas 25 ft header ,
old "68"digger
7 landrover , 3 in use ,
variety of tackle to suit every season and soil type , modern 4 m amazon combi ,2 old 3 m odd bits and game strips ,
24 m trailed spray ,12 m for game strips ,
every thing in house apart from beet lifting
1420 acre plus 160 of neighbours ,100 of it bits of grass and woods , 200/250 let for spuds onions ,tulips ,71 fields ,some nice big lumps split up with steward ship bird strips
light to medium land ,around 250 acre of it unsuitable for roots ,
2 of us ,

 

[Spud]

10 tractors from 53 grey fergy ,to 16;plate 215 r ,1140 hp
2 loadalls 93 and o3 plus 4 ton industrial ,
660 claas 25 ft header ,
old "68"digger
7 landrover , 3 in use ,
variety of tackle to suit every season and soil type , modern 4 m amazon combi ,2 old 3 m odd bits and game strips ,
24 m trailed spray ,12 m for game strips ,
every thing in house apart from beet lifting
1420 acre plus 160 of neighbours ,100 of it bits of grass and woods , 200/250 let for spuds onions ,tulips ,71 fields ,some nice big lumps split up with steward ship bird strips
light to medium land ,around 250 acre of it unsuitable for roots ,
2 of us ,

How many tractors in the working fleet?