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Aberdeen MS | The "10 - 1" rang a bell with me. This is what my actual computed fuel savings were from the fall of 05 to the spring of 06 going from the combine in corn to the planter for beans.
I might add, that when looking at the total picture in today's world, it's only 1 bushel an acre, but $10/acre is $10/acre. Yields from fall of 06, then beans matched the entire farm average over 310 acres. The 310 acre average wast 48.2, the 155 that was strip tilled was 48.6.
Here's the results.
In the fall of 05 my corn ground fall tillage fuel costs alone were $8.50/ac. That was shred stalks and then rip with a 527 DMI Ecol Tiger. Spring till was a pass with a FC followed by a pass with a multiweeder for a better seed bed. Those two passes ran up another $3.00 or so in fuel costs. For the equipment I have/had from the time the combine left the field in the fall until the planter pulled in the field I had 4 trips and $11.00 an acre in fuel. Stripping with a Dawn unit, I used .41 gal/acre @ $2.50 equals $1.03. | |
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ethanol - misleading information in October National Geographic
