custom combine rates ?

[jamesb]

what are people paying for custom combining rates ?

[Koldkanuck]

$25.00/acre plus fuel is the standard rate in our area. S.E. Sask.

[jensend]

should be lower in the s.e. was down to estevan yesterday and saw nothing to combine for about the last 50 km into estevan. sad looking country. that highly assessed land s. of regina is growing a lot of foxtail barley which might mean this flooding is going to have some longterm ph effect.

[jamesb]

what would that work out to per hour ?

[Hopperbin]

If takes one combine 6 hours to do 160 acres that would be 666 dollars per hour from start of field to end. That would include a truck also would it not? At that rate for my farm of 4500 acres would cost 112,500 dollars, I take my crop off with scrap iron. I feel good now.

[malta]

West central Alberta $300/ hr in the bin for a class 7

[BTOfarmallll]

NEVER hire an Sob charging per acre!!!!!! Always by The Hour unless yous wanna bend over. $25 an acre x 18 acres an Hour = $450 per Hour!!!!!!! Anywhere from $220 - $265 an Hour Round here fer The Big Girls who Eat Crop...............

[FarmRanger]

Last year I paid $32/acre, but all I did was tell
them where the field was, where the bins were,
and they did the rest.
If your crop is ready, it's stiil way cheaper than
the losses the weather can hand you.

[silverback]

I think I asked this last year, but I want to know what kind of combine can do 18 acres/hr in an average to above average crop?

I can remember doing about 30 acres an hour in a drought year once, but that was a little extreme (and depressing).

[BTOfarmallll]

We's ain't talkin Claas's MF 860 er Freewheat's IH 1460. It's simple Mathematics Silver - Length of Header er whatever X Speed / 8.25 = Acres per Hour...............