Combines Harvesting Rates

Around here in North Central Montana, they charge about $18 per acre depending on your fields and condition of the crop. Don't know if this includes hauling. I will have to check.

does jd combine rates include the reseeding rate along with regular cutting rateIJ heard most of them seed out the rear of machineIJ is this trueIJ

Read the posts on the AGCO CEO dying in a plane crash before starting another color war.

Here in Southern Ontario guys are charging anywhere from $25.00 to $30.00 per acre for harvesting wheat and rye, trucking is anywhere from a low of about .15 cents to as much as .21 cents per bushel. Corn and beans are anywhere from $30.00 to as high as $38.00 per acre and trucking the same .15 to .21 cents per bushel to the elevator.

Thanks to those of you that posted useful replies. To continue with the discussion, do you guys know what typical rates are in barleyIJ The reason that Im asking is because after looking at some of the reports put out by the Champ program (http:__www.aganalysisplus.com_champ_champ.htm),which is sponsored by the USCHI, I see that the average cutter charges US$18.74 for wheat, $23.14 for barley, and $18.10 for canola (these are all taken from the 2000 year report). Even if most cutters are harvesting irrigated barley, $23.14 still seems fairly high. Maybe I'm way off base in my assumptions. Anyways, I wanted to throw the numbers out to see what some farmers_cutters are paying_charging. Thanks for any input you have.

Maybe higher rate is because of higher volume of haulingIJ

When I go on the wheat run I try to get 3-14s and it seems like down south you can get that. As you progress north it seems like you have to drop down to 3-13s. It all depends on how many desperate cut throating people show up to an area. It is nice to have a run established and be able to cut for the same farmers year after year. When we cut irrigated malt barley we charge a flat $26 per acre for the combines and .30 a hundread to haul it up to 10 miles. It is a discouraging business but I guess that is the way it goes with competition. This past harvest there were crews cutting wheat for 3-10s granted it helps the farmer save a buck or two or actually make a buck or two. But they are the crews who dont stay in business to awful long. This fall there was a crew picking corn and hauling it for .17 per bushel now I am sure that sounds good to the farmer but all of that money was going out of our country so how does that help us out in the long run.....

I would guess that the barley price in the champ program includes several people who harvest malt barley in the San luis Valley, CO. The yield there are very good and they are picky, but the rate is generally higher than dryland barley in the northern states.

I asked a simple question, does deere still throw seed out backIJ How hard is that for you to answerIJ What did this question have to do with the sad loss of lifeIJ Do you own a STS or so called straight threw seederIJIJ

Bigredontop-Judging from your immature posts on this and the other pages I must conclude that you are probably under the age of fifteen. Surely you must have something more useful to contribute than your usual petty, unimaginative snipes at John Deere products that everyone here is sick of hearing. Maybe it is time Daddy limited the time you spend playing at his computer. Go watch some cartoons on TV or something else that is more suited to your current maturity level.