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Rates for Plowing Disking

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2510Paul

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I may have opportunity to do some plowing and disking for hire. I have a JD 4320 farm tractor, a JD F145H 4x16 plow and a 12' JD 210 disk. What are the rates in western Wisconsin, near La Crosse? Is it better to charge per arce or per hour? Or, is there a good resource to find average rates? Thanks. Paul
 
should be a University web site with the info
I have in he past seen links posted to different University web sites with the current rates for that state
try google search
good luck
Ron
 
Need more info. If it is 40 acres in one field you can go by the acre. If it is 40 acres in 10 fields you need to go by the hour.
 
Depending on conditions, Any trash laying around you would have to remove or nice clean fields. If you have to move and clean up junk first then that needs to be considered. Any unfarmed ground for years could have this problem but if curently under cultivation unlikely.
 
You know what it costs to operate your equipment per acre/hour!?
You know what your time/wages is worth!?

Back into it from a known cost of doing business approach. Then decide if its worth doing based on what the market will pay.

The problem with finding the going rate is you don't know if the guys your asking know what they're doing.

Nothing screws up the market worse than newbies who don't know what they are doing and they're only marketing skill is to be cheaper. The newbies go broke not charging enough and the guys who know what it costs can't make a living.

A quick example in the trucking business: fuel is $4.14 a gallon that translates into about .75 per mile for fuel. Drivers typically make about .40 per mile = $1.15 per mile. Truck needs repairs and maintenance and co wants a profit. The point is some drivers/companies are accepting the $1-1.2 / mile rates brokers are offering. They can't stay in business consistently operating at those rates.
 
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