Starting my farming career again

[malleefarmer]

As you know gone from bto back normal size operation family farm.

Kinda got a blank sheet for machinery no trades to worry about except a sprayer. Looking at a new miller or rogator.

Anyway my first big ticket item is a seeding tractor have a modest programme of 2100 ha wheat barly canola and 500 ha vetch oats and feed for stock So 2600 it is, at this stage.

Tractor im looking at but havent eyeballed yet is 9530 jd with 2900 hours on it. 2011 build.
Anything to look for and ive never owned jd so is it correct i have to use jd filters jd oil etc etc kind of a closed loop? Oil surely not!!

Then looking at 60ft seedhawk second hand or 56 ft morris c2 second hand. seed hawk and morris i think both 2010 build.

Gotta start somewere get 2 years under my belt with these cracking high grain prices then i may upgrade.
yep sarcasm intended.

plus 1250 merino ewes 1200 8mth old wethers and ewes as well. Would love another 500 ewes but steady as she goes

[bucket]

Don't buy a John deere if it has an Donaldson filter that is oval in shape with a flat face filter area ....it's ****ing garbage.

The older style round filter with the bottom rubber squeeze dust grommet have better capacity and have simply more filter area.

[malleefarmer]

[malleefarmer]

[malleefarmer]

$230,000 plus gst of 23k

As traded on thursday hasnt hit dealer yet for tidy up

Presume you guys would pay what $170k for same thing
ps no auto steer have to add another 12 to 17k depending on trimble system i get

[blackpowder]

These days being aware of tire expense on those rigs factors in.

[malleefarmer]

These days being aware of tire expense on those rigs factors in.

will eye ball it when it arrives at dealers as to wether i purchase it or not but i would say there 60%

[blackpowder]

They dont look like it in pics.
Dealers always rate high. Unless you can run em bald Done at %25
So 60% 2/3 done.
Are they R1s or R1Ws?
Check your beads for any wear or damage too. Power plus weight something slips. Sometimes bead depending on application. Ask your tire guy.
Assess your requirements of course as well. Also make damn sure weight ratios done right.
Just my own experiences.

[blackpowder]

Curious, whats your pounds per horsepower needs?

[malleefarmer]

[malleefarmer]

apologies if you are not interested trying to get off politics and people.

Above is 2t ha budget ps i like to hope for 2.4t ha up to 3. And yes i realize these yields are pathetic in your eyes but land is worth $400 to 800 per acre higher value l;and would maybe average 3t

But budgeting always go lower.

Currently i can get $210 on farm for harvest dec 18 feed barley.

Can put up my wheat and canola if you wish but probably boring you shitless how i do things here in poverty corner.

May be confusing no freight on farm price and hopefully you understand the inputs

And i do not expect you guys to do the same if you want thats fine

[malleefarmer]

Curious, whats your pounds per horsepower needs?

not quite sure about question were in easy pulling country above tractor will pull 60ft seeder with 14000 lt cart

[malleefarmer]

can do sheep as well sheepwheat

[malleefarmer]

And before you pick holes in it made a couple of errors.

Avadex should be added at 2l per ha.
And a spike of possibly lontrel with mcpa.

And made a mistake with soa sulphate of ammonia zero

Will redo spreadsheet for ya some time make sure no bo boobs on wheat and canola spreadsheet

[malleefarmer]

As you can see frost comes along and lowers it to 1.2 t ha not much joy not even on sensitivity table.

Be interested if you guys view the figures and farming here as high risk.

Not a huge amount of fat for machinery repayments etc.

But but last 3 yrs yields have been 2.8t 3.4t and 2.3t ha so bit of a snap shot there