Posted by JD Seller on December 10, 2014 at 00:43:35 from (208.126.198.123):
In Reply to: Cost to Combine? posted by tree-farmer on December 09, 2014 at 21:15:45:
John and Paul pretty well covered the main issues. Your five acres is going to be hard to do for someone.
Nearly 100% of the corn around me is GMO of some type. A single ear of it in your entire five acre crop will make your corn not pass an organic test. I have seen the corn left on a roll gate on a hopper trailer do it to a load of corn. So your going to have to get some one to totally clean their combine out Before they harvest your corn. I have done that before it takes good day or two to do.
So the normal harvest rate for corn per acre really means very little for your harvest. Let say the average around here is $35 per acre to harvest corn. That is only $175 to harvest your corn. That is not much money for the time and risk for harvesting your organic crop. Even paying a $100 per acre does not make it attractive to many.
I would be looking for a small combine to buy to harvest your own crop. Even a pull type picker with a sheller attachment would work.
Now the harsh part. You planted this crop in the spring. Now your trying to arrange to have it harvested????? That is kind of late to the game. You have had six months to get your harvest lined up. You have got to realize that a small specialty crop is going to be harder to arrange harvesting for. Your organic corn is not going to be easy to harvest and still pass the test it will need too.
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