Posted by oldtanker on October 14, 2011 at 11:55:29 from (66.228.255.223):
In Reply to: New TV show Harvest posted by Old Roy on October 14, 2011 at 08:01:03:
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Problem with hiring is you want experienced operators when the equipment starts at 200K. If every large farmer hired guys to cover all the field work plus the equipment they would sure put a dent in the unemployment thing......but who's going to take a seasonal job that pays maybe 2 months a years? Lot of the big guys can hire a few men but having enough for harvest is an issue. Custom guys get 4-5 months if they start down south and work their way north. and if they have good enough operators/drivers pay enough and let collect unemployment off season. Good running crews require 1 truck per combine unless they are using semi's. When I did it years ago we were using JD 7700s. We had to have one tandum truck per combine. We ran 3 and 3 and with the boss had a 7 man crew. We started in nothern OK and finished near Fargo ND. So you can reduce that by 1 man. The farmers we harvested for had thier men running tractors running right behind us to get the tillage work done. We did one guys wheat in ND who was running over 17 thousand acres in the early 70's. Just looked online for acres per hour on the larger machines, they are claiming 20-30 per hour. So a guy ageraging 20 per hours with wheat at 1000 acres planted will have to run that combine figuring 10 hours a day that it isn't too tuff for 5 days. Lot of them big guys are pushing 20-40 thusand acers. So say the guy has 10,000 acres of wheat, now harvest time is 50 days with one combine. And that isn't stopping to go unload a truck!
Read the crop insurance contracts. Every insurance contract (thats what your policy is a contract) requires that the insured takes/makes every reasonable effort to protect the insured item from loss or damaged. That means they can reduce payment or refuse to pay if you don't make every reasonable effort to get the crop out! You are not covered if you don't have operators or the equipment unless you hire it out. Then it's the custom crews or weather to blame if it isn't out in time. You are covered agains wind, rain, flooding, hail, freeze, vandals, theft and fire. You are not covered if you neglect to get the crop out because of lack of equipment or operators.
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