Combines custom combining

If you dont have enough work on your own farm to

In East Central Indiana, custom runs $18 an acre on corn and soybeans if all you are doing is dumping in a trailer provided by someone else. My neighbor Ernie gets $22 an acre from one farmer because he usually has to provide hoppers, tractors and a field augur if a trailer isn't on site. Also that particular farm is in two locations with 5 small fields totalling only 100 acres. We have to travel 5 miles to reach the furthest field, which is what we did last Saturday running beans for the gentleman.

we have been custom combining for over 30 years in SE MN. I charge 26$ per acre plus the farmer provides the fuel

$20 in E. Iowa. My type of schedule is same time every day to each farmer unless he calls or it rains. Find someone who has a good history in the neighborhood- such as reliable, doesn't combine at 8-10mph, and cares about puting the crop in the bin and not on the ground.

Sounds like you sure are rippin off that poor guy, you bum, what you gotta pay for that new combine every yearIJ 26IJ ID TEll YA WHERE YOU COUlD PUT YOUR COMBINE!

we have been combining for some of the same people for over 30 years I do a good job and people like that and some people charge 30 per acre I think 26 is ok maybe i should charge more with the prices of buying a new combine and heads and parts these days I think 26 per acre is a fair price nobody complains about it around here.

From his name I can tell we wouldnt get along . But if you add all your expenses and the cost of the machines these days . I dont know how you would make any thing.

How do custom cutters deal with long corn lines at the elevator. some times we have to be in line 4 hrs for one truck when the corn runs good.

I understand your thinking. I wish I could charge more than $20 combining and $10 planting nt w_liq. In my area, the big boys set the rates and if you want business you have to go along. Take a neighbor for example; He charges $23 plus fuel and was complaining last year that he couldn't afford to trade for a new JD every other year anymore because a couple of his customers had retired and he was unable to find any new business. I choose to run a good machine that is paid up instead.