Farmer talk

[underdog]

Worse yet, $30,000 on a semi that hauls all our grain to the elevator. I'm hoping that the bank will let me get a newer semi this year. One I drive now is 17 years old. Not very reliable any more.

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[snopro]

Somebody told me the new Deere 690 with a 40 ft draper header retails for $625000. Where the fawk does it end?

 

[byronkentgraham]

Yea we missed a swath of oats after the combine was put away, I wanted to jus bale it up but dad decided to get the combine out again... But it makes a guy wonder, you spend $10,000 on a pickup you use evey day,,, yet you spend $300,000 on a combine you use a couple weeks out of the year... Make you wonder lol

Because that pickup won't make you a dime. That combine has the potential to make you millions a year.

 

[underdog]

Because that pickup won't make you a dime. That combine has the potential to make you millions a year.

Pickup doesn't make you a dime eh? Why's that?

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[eclipse1966]

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Hey guys wonder if you can give me a heads up on current pricing for conventional feed wheat and feed barley? Just pricing a large contract of organic and would like to use conventional pricing as a benchmark.

Tks in advance - Dennis​

 

[popeye]

Because that pickup won't make you a dime. That combine has the potential to make you millions a year.

I must be farming wrong if one combine clears over a million a year

 

[mathrulz]

[h=2][/h]

Hey guys wonder if you can give me a heads up on current pricing for conventional feed wheat and feed barley? Just pricing a large contract of organic and would like to use conventional pricing as a benchmark.

Tks in advance - Dennis​

If you go to canola.ab.ca they have pricing data for what you're looking for. Current and past prices as well as futures.

 

[mathrulz]

I must be farming wrong if one combine clears over a million a year

Take canola at 60bu/acre and $12/bu. that works out to $720/acre. $1,000,000 divided by $720 is just over 1388 acres.

Expenses will vary depending on where you're at, how the year is, rental land, etc. but even if you double or triple 1388 acres - lots of guys pick up that much canola in a season with one machine. Plus other grains and maybe some custom work if there's time!

 

[eclipse1966]

If you go to canola.ab.ca they have pricing data for what you're looking for. Current and past prices as well as futures.

tks mathrulz!

 

[popeye]

Take canola at 60bu/acre and $12/bu. that works out to $720/acre. $1,000,000 divided by $720 is just over 1388 acres. Expenses will vary depending on where you're at, how the year is, rental land, etc. but even if you double or triple 1388 acres - lots of guys pick up that much canola in a season with one machine. Plus other grains and maybe some custom work if there's time!

If you can average 60bu/ac on 1300 plus acres acres that's good some are not that lucky, but you are right the possibility is there. Factor in $70/ac land rent $50/ac canola seed $70/acre fertilizer $25/ac to spray crop twice(because there is no way roundup canola yielded 60bu/ac at least not in my area) then maybe you only get 40bu/ac and maybe the price drops back to $8/bu like two years ago then that million dollars is allot farther away.

 

[thammer]

60bu/ac is pretty damn good, we get around 50 where i'm from and its pretty decent soil. your numbers are definately within reach but thats only in the best situations possible. John Deere brought out a 2012 s670 one day and did 70 acres in about 5 1/2 hours. it clipped along at 6.5mph. our two combines on the same field only managed 3mph without throwing to much over(although we were 3 days earlier), and thats only the 670, if your running the 690 and have room to get it to full power it would be remarkable and easily worth 625000. the JD guys said its pretty hard to get the 690 to its running performance level anywhere in alberta tho.

 

[underdog]

60bu/ac is pretty damn good, we get around 50 where i'm from and its pretty decent soil. your numbers are definately within reach but thats only in the best situations possible. John Deere brought out a 2012 s670 one day and did 70 acres in about 5 1/2 hours. it clipped along at 6.5mph. our two combines on the same field only managed 3mph without throwing to much over(although we were 3 days earlier), and thats only the 670, if your running the 690 and have room to get it to full power it would be remarkable and easily worth 625000. the JD guys said its pretty hard to get the 690 to its running performance level anywhere in alberta tho.

We got 60 on lots of our canola fields this year.
Also, my dad and I ran a S960 for a couple hours last week, and we were running it full. It takes a lot, but we try to get as much done in a day, that we're constantly pushing machine limits.
I find it funny how guys say that they are too big of a machine.
We were in a 70 bushel wheat crop (according to the monitor), picking up 36' swaths, and the dealer had the smart drive (retarded. I hate that feature) set so it would maintain 5mph. At that speed the engine was running at about 65%-75% capacity. I disabled the smart drive, and was able to go 6.5 in that. Then it was running at full capacity.

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[pete gads]

Farmer by home farms 13000 ac with four biggest cih, divide by 4 equals 3250 ac each combine , 40bu/ac canola at 8.00 per bu= 320ac x 3250ac =1040000.00 for 1 combine not bad

 

[snopro]

I think I'll keep letting the big wheels depreciate the new big iron for me and pick them up at a discounted price 3-4 years down the road. lol.

 

[ferniesnow]

I think I'll keep letting the big wheels depreciate the new big iron for me and pick them up at a discounted price 3-4 years down the road. lol.

come on Ken, get under the mattress and get out that bag of cash, lol

 

[underdog]

I think I'll keep letting the big wheels depreciate the new big iron for me and pick them up at a discounted price 3-4 years down the road. lol.

Same here. Nothing wrong with "old" technology.

 

[eclipse1966]

hey guys, one of my customers is asking us to locate conventional wheat min. min 12.8 protein. If dockage is below 2.5% we can direct load at farm. Volume would be monthly. We can talk price/samples/delivery etc. If interested, send me a PM. I am also looking for barley.

Unfortunately you would need to deal with the wheat board buy back.

Tks - dennis

 

[underdog]

Got the sprayer winterized, and pulled the hired hands sled out of the shop yesterday.
Starting to haul Canola today.
Sorry Dennis, We sold all of our wheat already.

 

[zeebs]

Finished combining Thursday now finishing tillage that the hired hand was screwin off during. 350 acres of first pass tillage left and about 375 acres of redo left that he screwed up because he didnt have good points on the ripper. Gotta love hired help! leavin for more night shift after supper.Haven't had rain since day 4th of July. Actually a little moisture to finish tillage wouldn't be bad as long as it knew when to shut off and didn't come down in the white form.

 

[zeebs]

Farmer by home farms 13000 ac with four biggest cih, divide by 4 equals 3250 ac each combine , 40bu/ac canola at 8.00 per bu= 320ac x 3250ac =1040000.00 for 1 combine not bad

Yeah that would be great if he didnt have ANY other expense except the combine........ Most likely NOT the case.