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Fairbury, NE (Southeast) | I've done what you are describing for years, obviously there are savings but realistically it costs at least 8-10 dollars a year per acre to run a modern sprayer plus paying yourself a small wage.
What that wage is debatable. 25/hour or 100/hour. I know I don't get much else done when it is time to spray.
25-35 per acre is achievable to do it yourself vs a total custom app.
Reading your cost below on SS that is an impressively low number. Very few here use conventional corn. Too many neighbors with booms 15 ft in the air when they make the pass around the field. One field a few miles away, spray cowboys got 50 rows into the neghbors conventional corn... would have been an interesting conversation to hear.
Edited by dt4020 1/17/2025 12:47
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Where do farmers see cost cutting in their operations
