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casetractor

12-04-2001 11:48:44




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I am a senior in High school and as a graduation requirement we have to do a senior project, well i am in the FFA too so i went with the agriculture theme. and i wanted to show the equipment now compared to earlier methods and how our new machines makes our farms run more efficient. i am working closely with a New Holland Dealership and he let me borrow this great book The New Holland Haymakers Handbook, and it breaks down the cost to pay labor, run machinery, field maintainance, ect. but these are figures from the early 1900's and i need an up to date figure on cost of hay production, if any body can help it would be appreciated, and any other info. on this topic or sugestions of good books to use, if you want email me at casetractor5@hotmail.com, thanks and have a great holiday!!

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david

12-05-2001 11:34:09




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 Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to casetractor, 12-04-2001 11:48:44  
Check with you local extension office for "enterprise budgets". These will show cost per acre based on state averages. Then you can play with the numbers and try some different equipment prices. My farm mgt students do this in that class and have had a surprising variablity. Most of the farms we have farm planned on have a cost of .89/bale-$1.35/bale looking at the owners actual records. For rolls its been $12.70-$39.00 (this really is interesting when rolled hay in the local market can be bought $12.00-$14.00 for grass up to $25.00 for really good stuff).

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Tom A

12-05-2001 08:43:31




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 Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to casetractor, 12-04-2001 11:48:44  
I'm going to suggest you contact Lynn Miller, the editor of Small Farm Journal. He is a very strong proponent of modern horse farming to increase efficiency. Essentially, you reduce the cost of your inputs a lot while reducing the amount of product a little and keep more of your money overall...something akin to what the Amish do, but with a slightly more modern flair. I'd be willing to bet he can find modern figures for you producing hay with 'old' equipment.

I suspect you can get hold of him through his magazine's web site at>Link

good>Link luck on your paper!

Tom

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Mark A

12-05-2001 06:42:28




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 Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to casetractor, 12-04-2001 11:48:44  
Hey, check out F14 reply to the "making hay" reply on the post just above yours. It has some great stuff there that I think you can use! Good Luck



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TomH

12-04-2001 15:59:43




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 Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to casetractor, 12-04-2001 11:48:44  
Before you do anything else you need to define "efficient". Return on investment? Production per hour? How do you factor out other advances like genetics, fertilizer, etc? Amish in Lancaster County are making money using mules to work their farms...



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JIMVA

12-04-2001 18:46:29




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 Re: Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to TomH, 12-04-2001 15:59:43  
yea the amish dont mind spending the extra money for fertilizer and for grain. another thing u have to remember the amish dont use banks any money they make goes to the church and then the church distributes it out for whatever the the amish family needs or for the farm. its sorta like this I make $200, that goes to the church, then i go buy $500 worth of whatever, the entire amish community is paying for each other, and they are all making money for each other, thats how the amish can make a damn good living at farming.

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RayP(MI)

12-05-2001 17:39:43




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 Re: Re: Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to JIMVA, 12-04-2001 18:46:29  
But their standard of living sure is low!



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casetractor

12-04-2001 16:51:14




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 Re: Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to TomH, 12-04-2001 15:59:43  
thanks for the reply TomH. my study will focus more on the machinery which equals production per hour in our words i guess. And also if to not so much new but current method of conditioning hay makes our crops good per amount of time spent producing them.I am focusing the report mostly on the haybine and baler as to how it handles and the quality of the crops produced. are these the specifics you were looking for, if not i'll try again, thanks alot TomH

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paul

12-04-2001 12:50:45




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 Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to casetractor, 12-04-2001 11:48:44  
There are some friendly guys over at>Link

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casetractor

12-04-2001 16:52:44




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 Re: Re: Farming Efficiency in reply to paul, 12-04-2001 12:50:45  
thanks i will try this!!:-)



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