Posted by paul on March 07, 2010 at 09:22:19 from (66.44.132.155):
In Reply to: Alfalfa?? posted by dave2 on March 07, 2010 at 08:25:24:
If you already have a working relationship with him, should work out.
Alfalfa likes a lot of P & K over the 4 year period, or it gets thing. It doesn't need any N. So you might not get the best deal from just manure application.... It can cost $75-150 an acre to get the fertility set up right for an alfalfa field. Best to get most of the P & K on before you plant, it's harder to get the K worked into the ground once it's planted.
Seed on an acre could be 20 lbs, which could be close to $100.
Machinery costs to plant an acre - I'd have more invested in driving there than actually doing the work, so as a farmer I'd just smile & not worry about that - no cost.
If you cut your own, should work out. You might want to let him take 1st & 2nd cut so he can make his silage when it works for him; then you cut the 3rd & 4th - if there is any - so you can 'play' with the stuff and not mess up his cutting schedule.
If you cut the acre a week after he does his other fields, that acre will be out of step the rest of the year & not work out well for him. So perhaps it would work out best with a schedule like this.
My worry as a farmer is that the schedule gets messed up & I end up getting no hay from it, or have to travel around extra just for an acre - road travel can easily cost more than the value of the hay.
So if the seed & fertilizer costs were covered, I'd do it for you & then not worry about if I got hay or not from it. The machinery part just be nice to help out a neighbor, let him play with his land. :)
Just trying to give you a little perspective of what I'd be thinking about.
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