Custom Combining Rates

[sumdumguy]

Farmers with snow lodged wheat, oats are scouting around farmers that are done offering $12/acre for two Cases to straight-cut wheat. Guess the reply they got.

[beaverdam]

Farmers with snow lodged wheat, oats are scouting around farmers that are done offering $12/acre for two Cases to straight-cut wheat. Guess the reply they got.

Just curious, what do you think the rate should be, for combining in the last week of Oct and into Nov?

[bigzee]

Anyone that wants to come and cut this for $12 is more than welcome. In fact, I will round it off to $15. You are cutting as is, as in rocks also.

[STR1]

Just curious, what do you think the rate should be, for combining in the last week of Oct and into Nov?

Dealers charge around $350 - 400 per separated hour, plus you supply labour, plus you supply fuel. So I’m guessing $30-35 per acre would be close.
Then depends on whether it’s friend and you just want help out or true custom work, every situation is different.

[bucket]

Pretty tough to ask a neighbour to come help when he has to go to unrolled ground to get it....and work on land he has never been on....

If combines could be fixed for less than 5000 it wouldn't be a problem to pay the repair bill as a bonus...but when you are talking feed wheat ....pretty tough to think the neighbour will cover his costs if a wreck occurs...

[fjlip]

Do your own, stuff costs TOO MUCH to f ckup on someone else's. Real tired of 2019 anyway, put it all away,changed oils...just dry the rest before TOO cold.

[hobbyfrmr]

Farmers with snow lodged wheat, oats are scouting around farmers that are done offering $12/acre for two Cases to straight-cut wheat. Guess the reply they got.

I don’t understand the sentence.
The farmers with lodged crops are asking around for help, they want to pay $12.00/acre?
Farmers with 2 case combines are looking to custom harvest lodged crops for $12.00/acre?
Either way, custom harvest rates are about $25.00/acre combine only and. $30.00/acre combine and truck in “normal” conditions.
Combines are so expensive now, any damage is a major setback to a farm. Rumour has it a bigger farm put a VT disk into a new JD combine. It took 3 weeks for dealer to fix and $96,000.00 invoice.
That is straight rumour, the tales get taller down the line but it would not surprise me.

My 25 year old combine is breaking down in odd places from getting worn out. Definite down time and learning all about the mechanisms I have never really looked at much. So make payments or suffer the downtime to fix it. I don’t have a solid value attached to the penalty of a wore out antique.

[blackpowder]

If you can't pay your neighbor what it's worth you can do it yourself.
And probably always has.

[jazz]

Well with sme of the guys wheat not even good enouggh for pigs to eat, I would be looking for some custom work to pay the bills, but $12 an acre is a rip. $30 is probably more like it.

[sumdumguy]

That’s sorta what I thought $12 is about 1/3 price, with the conditions and risk. Just didn’t know the going rate for standing grain, never mind flat grain with rocks underneath. Today is finito benito for our gumbo flats so time to get ready for satellite swirls coming in. 💨 Looks like its high-gear time.

[Grahamp]

I am not a custom combiner but when I see how the combines I own depreciate I don’t think 30-35 is enough for newer combines. I’d help a good neighbour but short of that I think you need $40 per acre from a solely economic point of view.

[LEP]

I don’t understand the sentence.
The farmers with lodged crops are asking around for help, they want to pay $12.00/acre?
Farmers with 2 case combines are looking to custom harvest lodged crops for $12.00/acre?
Either way, custom harvest rates are about $25.00/acre combine only and. $30.00/acre combine and truck in “normal” conditions.
Combines are so expensive now, any damage is a major setback to a farm. Rumour has it a bigger farm put a VT disk into a new JD combine. It took 3 weeks for dealer to fix and $96,000.00 invoice.
That is straight rumour, the tales get taller down the line but it would not surprise me.

My 25 year old combine is breaking down in odd places from getting worn out. Definite down time and learning all about the mechanisms I have never really looked at much. So make payments or suffer the downtime to fix it. I don’t have a solid value attached to the penalty of a wore out antique.

Yup, it's payments or parts. Most times both. If you are pulling in on a crop that is upright vs flat on the ground, there's a big difference.