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We are finally getting enough moisture to where there is actually corn being harvested for grain! In our area, the only corn that used to be grown was for silage. Combining question:How do combiners charge for combining corn? Is it by the acre, by the hour, by the bushel? When the wheat harvestors got here last summer, most of them charged 3 22's which for us meant $22/acre + $0.22/bushel for every bushel over 20 bushel/acre(so 50 bushel/acre wheat would be $28.60/acre to combine) and $0.22/bushel for trucking. Is there such a thing as the "overage" charge for corn? I think it started years ago when they were using JD 55 combines and those of that size and got into good wheat and it had to slow them down a lot. With the combines now, 50 bushel/acre wheat is where they work the best. So what would it cost to get 100 bushel/acre corn combined?
 
I just talked to a guy this afternoon in Colorado that told me he paid eighteen dollars and acre to combine and eighteen cents a bushel to have them haul it.
 
In N.E. Iowa it is by the acre. I operated a combine for a friend on some custom jobs two years ago. Going rate then was $25.00 to $30.00 per acre. I'd expect a little more now as fuel is more expensive

Most frustrating part is customers don't have trees timed around the edges of the field. You can damage a combine wiping out a day's profit real quick. We told one guy not to call next year unless he trimmed the trees, he cost us more than we made from the job.
 
I get $25 an acre whether it is 100 bushel or 200 bushel corn. $25 for soybeans as well.

Gary
 
So you just drive the combine into the trees? Whats up with that? I'd just leave the grain under the trees, and not damage my machine. Seems pretty basic to me. Anything left unharvested is just a nice reminder to owner to GET OFF HIS BUTT and fix the problem.
 
Here in south central IL not much custom work anymore. When I was a under aged driver, very under,I used to follow my dad with the truck when we moved to the next field. We did a lot of custom work then. My brother's combine broke at the end of the season a couple of years ago when the mud was a foot deep. Had 100 acres to go and we got this guy to finish for $100 an hour. My brother figured it to be around $10 per acre. Can't own a combine for that. It always used to be by the acre here.
 
I pay $25 per acre dryland plus .07 bushel to haul under 20mi round trip.
my buddy pays $33 for irrigated plus .07 bushel for under 20miles round trip.
 
I pay $35 an acre and that includes the hauling. One of my customers pays $32 including the hauling, but he has bigger fields.
 
I just paid my neighbor $35 per acre to combine my corn last week. He also trucked it to the local elevator for me. I thought that was fair.
Kow Farmer
 
Up here in MN custom combiners take some pride in their work, and try to get all the bushels. Even if they are not presented the easiest fields to harvest.

It is typical here to charge by the acre, whatever the yield is doesn't matter.

Price will vary if you need trucking or not, I'm not real up on current price, used to be around $20 an acre, but been a lot of fuel and iron increases since then so the $30+ would sound right for here too.

--->Paul
 
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