I would say as a rough rule of thumb once you get over 50 acres of corn silage you see guys own an older self-propelled and a lot of guys just hire it done. Most of the big dairies (several hundred animals and greater) are looking to help offset the cost of a new 6 row or bigger harvester that has a kernel processor by doing custom work. Rates run from 175 to 300 dollars per cutterhead hour and those machines can cover a lot of ground in an hour if they are not waiting for trucks. If they can get one, alot of guys figure they are ahead cost-wise if they can get the big harvester for custom. New small 2 row machines are over 30K such as NH 790 and JD 3955 w/o heads. Mower-conditioners are a little different proposition as nearly all farms seem to have one and anything smaller than the biggest seem to have a center-swing cutterbar or disc unit as opposed to a self-propelled. In New York dealers that kept several new units and a couple dozen used units for pull-type forage harvesters now maybe keep one new and a few used on the lot so that practice has lost a lot of favor in the last decade. One of my favorite things growing up was watching dad out with the 4010 diesel and 2 row out chopping corn followed by bringing it back and blowing it up a vertical stave silo. Not much of that done at least in these parts anymore. Somebody 100 miles away in any direction from me could paint a completely different picture than the one I did.
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