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Re: Re: Question for Hugh MacKay and others
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Posted by dhermesc on September 02, 2003 at 06:04:17 from (65.141.163.140):
In Reply to: Re: Question for Hugh MacKay and others posted by Hugh MacKay again on September 01, 2003 at 18:39:37:
The other thing you have to remember is CUSTOM WORK. The guys that are serious about this have a huge capital outlay in modern equipment that has to pay for itself. I have two brothers that cover about 2600 acres of row crop and hay of their own with about 1100 hp, but they are constantly picking up additional work with neighbors that mainly consists of single pass work (run over somebody's ground with the soil saver or field cultivator and the neighbor plants it) or haying with their swathers and big square baler. They cover at least an additional 2500 acres that way for cash flow and to keep the equipment busy. By the same token another brother and I have about 330 hp to cover only 320 acres of row crop and hay of our own, but we also cover about 300 acres of hay on shares and we pick up some field work with the heavier equipment behind the old 1456 and 856 (we don't do any custom work with the smaller equipment). We are not near as efficient as we both work off the farm and the equipment is usually sitting during "prime" working hours. You really want to see inefficiency, look at the typical block in the suburbs, every house has a push mower, riding mower, ect and ect... usually comes out to about 40-50 hp per acre.
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