Your marketing plan and when you need to hauling in your crop could make a big difference on your wagon needs.
Will you be hauling straight from the combine and how many bushels will the combine harvest per hour? At ten miles one-way, you are probably looking at around a 1 1/2 hour to 2+ two hour round trip to unload when there are no waiting lines at the elevator (probably none during September). Is the combine your own or is it hired? A hired combine will likely have the capacity to harvest your entire 50 acres in one or two days, or a weekend (elevator closed Sunday?). A hired combine will not be willing to wait for empty wagons or to make two or more trips to harvest one 50 acre field.
If you have enough on-farm storage to hold your crop, then you can harvest faster and then haul it to the elevator at your leisure, at peak market prices, or hire a truck to move the crop during the off-season. You can probably build on-farm storage (next year) for less cost per bushel than buying enough wagons to hold nearly all our crop at one time, and for less long term cost than storing at an elevator (especially for corn).
What are your crop rotation plans for next year? If you will plant corn next year you can expect three to five times the yield compared to soybeans. In Iowa, corn often needs drying. 50 acres x 150 to 250 bu/acre corn = 7,500 to 12,500 bushels of corn to haul during harvest or to store and dry on-the-farm. At the peak of corn harvest October/November depending on the weather) the lines to unload at some elevators can get hours long and elevators might stay open 24/7, meaning only one or two trips per day and much more traveling on the roads in the dark.
Be willing to tarp filled wagons or get them inside quickly when wet weather hits. Wagon brakes really help to control larger heavy wagons at road speeds.
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