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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 19, 2021 21:41:43 GMT -6
Spray it and hire someone to notill soybeans in the first year and leave them stand. You will every deer in the area on your place come December. How much would that cost? Ballpark. Burn down hired would be $25/30. Hiring someone to plant with beans about $80-100 per acre. 2nd spray $25 per acre. No fertilizer the first year. Or spend $60/acre on fertilizer if you want.
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Post by wklman on Mar 19, 2021 21:51:53 GMT -6
How much would that cost? Ballpark. Burn down hired would be $25/30. Hiring someone to plant with beans about $80-100 per acre. 2nd spray $25 per acre. No fertilizer the first year. Or spend $60/acre on fertilizer if you want. Good thing I've got the new job đ
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 20, 2021 4:24:48 GMT -6
Burn down hired would be $25/30. Hiring someone to plant with beans about $80-100 per acre. 2nd spray $25 per acre. No fertilizer the first year. Or spend $60/acre on fertilizer if you want. Good thing I've got the new job đ . You donât have to do it all the first year!
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 20, 2021 4:28:45 GMT -6
I don't have interest in "farming". If I had 25 acres of grass field, I'd turn the vast majority into weeds/grass/saplings/whatever shows up after spraying the grass and keep 3-5 acres for foodplots. I do understand why Wade wants 25 acres of food though, should be some fantastic late season hunting. Yep, late season food is king in high density areas. You have deer food late in the year and after crop harvest and you have the deer. Found that out at my old place. For me, late season food, decent deer numbers, and cover( conifers) if the winter storms start. CCCâs like the old days. Cat tails, conifers, and corn.
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Post by wklman on Mar 24, 2021 21:19:40 GMT -6
Called leaf river ag this morning and they said it's 16.50 an acre to spray. I'll be using them to spray the whole field. Good thing is that i'll be able to have them spray before i come up if it's warm enough and then have it all brown by the time I show up. That'll be a big help.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 24, 2021 21:20:49 GMT -6
Called leaf river ag this morning and they said it's 16.50 an acre to spray. I'll be using them to spray the whole field. Good thing is that i'll be able to have them spray before i come up if it's warm enough and then have it all brown by the time I show up. That'll be a big help. With chemicals? No way.
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Post by wklman on Mar 24, 2021 21:22:12 GMT -6
Called leaf river ag this morning and they said it's 16.50 an acre to spray. I'll be using them to spray the whole field. Good thing is that i'll be able to have them spray before i come up if it's warm enough and then have it all brown by the time I show up. That'll be a big help. With chemicals? No way. I wasn't sure myself, lol. I'm guessing that's without chemicals.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 24, 2021 21:32:05 GMT -6
I wasn't sure myself, lol. I'm guessing that's without chemicals. Here is how it works in our area going through a coop. $16 per acre is the sprayer charge only for small fields. (Anything under one tank). Then you have to buy their chemicals at double the price of my chemicals. Then you have to pay for their anti drift to put in the tank. Then you have to pay for their water conditioner. Then you have to pay for their water, yes their water. Then you have to pay for a possible boom fold charge. No shit, if they fold the booms out and in more than once, you pay them $25 each time. Get ready for a fucking.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 25, 2021 2:43:26 GMT -6
I wasn't sure myself, lol. I'm guessing that's without chemicals. Here is how it works in our area going through a coop. $16 per acre is the sprayer charge only for small fields. (Anything under one tank). Then you have to buy their chemicals at double the price of my chemicals. Then you have to pay for their anti drift to put in the tank. Then you have to pay for their water conditioner. Then you have to pay for their water, yes their water. Then you have to pay for a possible boom fold charge. No shit, if they fold the booms out and in more than once, you pay them $25 each time. Get ready for a fucking. It might get expensive, but is still the best choice for Wade. I would also look for someone to plow and disk, or just disk if the soil is light.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 25, 2021 4:51:13 GMT -6
Here is how it works in our area going through a coop. $16 per acre is the sprayer charge only for small fields. (Anything under one tank). Then you have to buy their chemicals at double the price of my chemicals. Then you have to pay for their anti drift to put in the tank. Then you have to pay for their water conditioner. Then you have to pay for their water, yes their water. Then you have to pay for a possible boom fold charge. No shit, if they fold the booms out and in more than once, you pay them $25 each time. Get ready for a fucking. It might get expensive, but is still the best choice for Wade. I would also look for someone to plow and disk, or just disk if the soil is light. May be his only bet. And he is at their mercy as to when they come. I could see it costing around $40+ per acre.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 25, 2021 4:55:45 GMT -6
It might get expensive, but is still the best choice for Wade. I would also look for someone to plow and disk, or just disk if the soil is light. May be his only bet. And he is at their mercy as to when they come. I could see it costing around $40+ per acre. I donât blame anyone or any business for getting the work for real farmers done first. The rest of us are just hobbyists.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 25, 2021 5:10:43 GMT -6
May be his only bet. And he is at their mercy as to when they come. I could see it costing around $40+ per acre. I donât blame anyone or any business for getting the work for real farmers done first. The rest of us are just hobbyists. The reason I started my seed and chemical business 23 years ago was because of our local AG store. I was running jobs all over the twin cities and had no time to spray my crops. Had them spray my 200 acres of corn with what was the 3 best herbicides at the time. Worked great. 3 weeks later got a bill for $65 per acre for the spray charge and chemicals. I went in there the next Saturday morning and asked how it could be that high. The owner looked me right in the eye and said âwe are the only gig in the area, we can charge what we wantâ. It was about triple the going rate at the time. I paid it. And opened up Roemhildâs Farm Supply the next year. Advertised chemicals at half price of what he had been selling at and got some farmers to do some custom spraying. He went broke finally 5 years ago and our business gains 15% per year and has since we started. Hope wade donât get that guy.
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Post by Sandbur on Mar 25, 2021 5:24:54 GMT -6
I donât blame anyone or any business for getting the work for real farmers done first. The rest of us are just hobbyists. The reason I started my seed and chemical business 23 years ago was because of our local AG store. I was running jobs all over the twin cities and had no time to spray my crops. Had them spray my 200 acres of corn with what was the 3 best herbicides at the time. Worked great. 3 weeks later got a bill for $65 per acre for the spray charge and chemicals. I went in there the next Saturday morning and asked how it could be that high. The owner looked me right in the eye and said âwe are the only gig in the area, we can charge what we wantâ. It was about triple the going rate at the time. I paid it. And opened up Roemhildâs Farm Supply the next year. Advertised chemicals at half price of what he had been selling at and got some farmers to do some custom spraying. He went broke finally 5 years ago and our business gains 15% per year and has since we started. Hope wade donât get that guy. You made a good move, John. I hope Wade gets a fair price. I know how things go with some hobby farmers. In the past, going out to preg check 75 beef cows was fine, but going out to check two beef cows could take nearly as long and be far more dangerous. Wade has a big enough field that he should get a decent price.
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Post by MoBuckChaser on Mar 25, 2021 5:26:52 GMT -6
Pretty important to ask for the total price per acre before they go out. If itâs $60. Find a farmer that wants some cash.
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Post by wklman on Mar 25, 2021 8:30:26 GMT -6
Leaf river is pretty good. The neighbor at my old place used them a couple times and he said they were the cheapest around. They've got some competition up here so if they start screwing farmers there's other places to use. I'll get a total price once I call to confirm my spraying.
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