Re: Question for Hugh MacKay and others

Posted by Hugh MacKay on September 01, 2003 at 15:17:32 from (209.226.106.96):

In Reply to: Question for Hugh MacKay and others posted by Brian in MO on September 01, 2003 at 10:32:02:

Brian: Many of the commercial operator today are aiming for 1/4 hp per acre. I think very few are actually achiving that. I know a few guys that are in the 1/2 hp per acre range. I don't know of anyone in the 1/4 range. There are also some variables in here as well. Livestock farmers are going to use more especially those with confined feeding and manure handling. Then you throw in farm trucks and just how much work is being by trucks that some others do with tractors.

I had a cash cropper tell me he was under 1/4 hp per acre. I said what about your combine, you are harvesting with it, yet your neighbor dairy farmer is doing all his harvesting with tractors. Then you have the farmer hiring custom operators, they are indeed paying for horse power.

I do believe there are farmers getting in under the 1/2 hp per acre. I think there are farmers aiming for 1/4 hp per acre, whether they are achiving is another matter. I think it can be done if you take out all the trucking tractors do, all the barn chores tractors do, all the feeding tractors do, and just leave the actual field work.

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