Typical power/size vs. acreage?

[Sid]

It’s ok I’m waiting for the inevitable “well if you went to DD it would be considerably less” type comment

And less chemicals!

 

[Spud]

If you were a direct driller, you'd use less chems and need less horsepower....

 

[Lincsman]

If you were a direct driller, you'd use less chems and need less horsepower....

Also less trailers, less grainstores, you can save a fortune!

 

[Spud]

Also less trailers, less grainstores, you can save a fortune!

Yep, and make the same profit! #winner

 

[Sid]

Yep, and make the same profit! #winner

And get paid to tell everyone else how to do it!

 

[Spud]

And get paid to tell everyone else how to do it!

Ah well that bit only applies to the elite few!

 

[jondear]

265 acres dairy .1 tractor .1 JCB .scraper tractor 330 hp total

 

[l'ordinary bonville]

880hp between 3 main tractors and 2 loaders, ave hours 4200, ave. age 5.4 years

1150 acres of heavy heavy land over 3 farms
1300 sows (1 loader) finishing sites (1 loader and 1/2 a tractor) plus arable.
1 tractor does 1000 hours a year carting slurry alone

If we split off non arable usage we are about 0.3hp/acre
Trailed sprayer and almost all work in house

 

[White rabbit]

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

 

[curiousnonfarmer]

500 acres (400 grass 100 maize)
Dairy farm.
160hp tractor - 4.5m mower, round baler, 5 furrow plough, 14t trailer, 4m stubble cultivator, 3m combi + front press, 12t muck spreader. Could get away with less but it’s nice to be boss of the job.
120hp and loader- 8m Tedder, twin rotor rake, bale cart with 30 ft trailer, fertiliser spreader, topper, 6m rolls, straw blower.
90hp (1982)-diet feeder.
Loadall- all yard work.
495hp total, just shy of 1hp/acre do everything myself with help from the mrs, contractor chops maize.

Wow, that seems like a lot of acres to cover with just a 4.5m mower. What kind of speed do you run at with the mower?

 

[Finn farmer]

420 acres
Case Maxxum 145hp + Jd 6630 169hp=314hp
314hp/420ac=0,747hp/ac

3,6m trailed mower
6,3m drill roller
McHale Fusion 2
14m Amazone Sprayer

We used to have 500 acres on same machines, gave some up to have more freetime.

 

[Fendt516profi]

420 acres
Case Maxxum 145hp+169hp Jd 6630=314hp
314hp/420ac=0,747hp/ac

3,6m trailed mower
6,3m drill roller
McHale Fusion 2
14m Amazone Sprayer

That 6630 must have twin beacons to be doing 314hp

 

[MrNoo]

550ac
195hp tractor
Combine is 280hp
Agribuggy is 140hp
3m drill and 24m tramlines

 

[Finn farmer]

That 6630 must have twin beacons to be doing 314hp

Was trying to get the numbers next to each other. Jd can only do 230, but we decided to keep it at 169 to prolong its lifespan.

 

[Spanish]

450 acres of cereals and sunflowers grown with 2 tractors, one of 105 hp and the other of 125 hp. Also a 140 hp combine with a 16 foot header. Average 7.4 acre farms

 

[Fendt516profi]

Was trying to get the numbers next to each other. Jd can only do 230, but we decided to keep it at 169 to prolong its lifespan.

Yea got that just reads other way to like you've got two maxxums

 

[Rob5150]

Wow, that seems like a lot of acres to cover with just a 4.5m mower. What kind of speed do you run at with the mower?

Anywhere up 17/18km/h mind I do spend the time getting me reseeded smooth.
I should also add that it’s not all silage ground, I usually aim for around 5 years in grass so the first 2 years they’ll be cut for silage ( 2-3 cuts max as summers get very dry here) then they’re demoted to hay ground until being rotated back into maize, so I’m never cutting 400 acres in one hit, I also have sheep here through the winter which helps to manage stagger the cuts, for example my first cut silage will be around 150 acres.

 

[bobk]

350ac arable, 300 head beef unit, 5500 laying hens + dozens of mini diversifications. 20m tramlines. Biggest tractor is 125hp. 7 tractors in regular use - 2007 - 1970ish. SP sprayer, combine, digger and 2 telehandlers.

I'm slowly dragging the farm into the 1990s.

Many a good tune played on an old fiddle

 

[shearerlad]

By some of the replies I’m just playing at it

560 acres farmed
75 suckler cows
700 ewes

John Deere 6130R
John Deere 3220 telehandler
Fiat 580 loader tractor
Volvo EX55B digger
Honda 420 quad
Isuzu dmax pickup

Not sure on the hp of the bike but it takes me to just shy of 1hp per acre

 

[Boohoo]

Only 25hp per acre here, must buy another appreciating classic.