HERE is a guide to hay and fodder contracting prices in Victoria for the 2010-11 season.
SOUTH GIPPSLAND
Prices supplied by the South Gippsland Agricultural Contractors Association.
Phone president Matt Rogers on 0408 175 234 or secretary/treasurer Philip McNaughton on 0428 515 201.
The following are suggested prices only and exclude GST. Consult your contractor for a quote on your specific activity.
SILAGE
Self-loader wagon (up to 28 cubic metres): $306/hour; 28 cubic metres and above, $404/hour.
Silage rolls (1.2m x 1.2m), $15.35/roll; 1.2m x 1.5m, $19.10/roll. Chopped is $2.65 extra per roll.Raking: $132.80/hour.
Silage wrap (2x2): $10.30/roll, plus plastic.
Hire of wrap machine: $6.60/roll, plus plastic.
Mowing: $85.30 a hectare or $70.85 per hour or per metre.
Mower-conditioning: $79 per hour or per metre.
Super-conditioning, by negotiation.Windrow grouper, by negotiation.
Raking and baling small squares, 35cm x 45cm: $1.95 up to 500; 40cm x 45cm, $2.15 up to 500.
Raking up to 3.5m: $122.30/hour; raking for small squares, 45c per bale.
Big squares and round rolls, $6.30/unit.
Teddering: $35.45/metre/hour.
Chopping or sisal twine, by negotiation.
HAY
Large squares (add cost of raking at hourly rate): 90cm x 90cm x 2.4m, $22.05; 1.2m x 90cm x 2.4m, $24.80.
Rolls: 1.2m x 1.2m, $15.35 plus $3.65 to rake; 1.2m x 1.5m, $17.85 plus $5.10 to rake; 1.2m x 1.8m, $24.10 plus $5.80 to rake; 1.5m x 1.5m, $17.60 plus $7.30 to rake; 1.5m x 1.7m, $21.90 plus $8.80 to rake.
Carting: small square (35cm x 45cm), $2.35; 40cm x 45cm, $2.89.
Paddock collection of round rolls and big square bales, plus stacking within a reasonable distance on-farm, $123.40/hour.
CULTIVATION
Chisel ploughing: $20.80/tyne/hour.
Disc ploughing: POA; deep ripping: $49.95/tyne/hour.
Primary discing: $8.40/disc/hour; rotary hoe: $75.70/metre/hour.
Power harrowing: $66.95/metre/hour ($72.45 with seed box).
Sowing cereals into prepared seed bed: $59.95/metre/hour.Oversowing/direct drill: $59.95/metre/hour.
Mouldboard ploughing: $45.35/board/hour.
Effluent, farm waste disposal and fertiliser spreading
Fertiliser spreading (solid): $141/hour; liquid fertiliser spreading: $17.35/ha.
Vacuum tanker: $195.25/hour.
Effluent spreading (solids): $249.65/hour or $7.65/cu metre.
Spraying: price on application.
WESTERN VICTORIA
Prices supplied by the Western Victorian Agricultural Contractors Association.
Phone president Merv Zanker on 0429 338 029, secretary Len Smyth on 0418 503 974 or treasurer Garry Gebert on 0407 504 047.
These are suggested rates only and exclude GST. Consult your contractor for a quote on your specific activity.
SILAGE
Mowing: $70.85/ha.
Mower-conditioning: $88.80/ha.
Super-conditioner by negotiation; windrower grouper by negotiation.
Raking or tedding: $52.70/ha.
Large squares: 90cm x 60cm x 1.8m, $22.65; 90cm x 90cm x 1.8m, $25.95; 90cm x 1.2m x 1.8m, $27.90.
Rolls: 1.2m x 1.2m, $16 with twine or $16.20 with net wrap; 1.2m x.1.5m, $18.65 with twine or $21.25 with net wrap. All other sizes $21.25 with twine or $23.95 with net wrap.
Chopping $2.60 per bale.
Silage/hay additive, by negotiation.
Silage 1.2m x 1.2m: $16.60; silage wrapping: round (2+2), $9.35 plus plastic; (3+3) $11.65 plus plastic; square (2+2), $12 plus plastic.
HAY
Small squares (cost per bale): 35cm x 45cm, $1.20; 40cm x 45cm, $1.35.
Large squares: 90cm x 60cm x 1.8m, $23.75; 90cm x 90cm x 2.4m, $22.65; 90cm x 1.2m x 2.4m, $27.80; 1.2m x 1.2m x 2.4m, $36.70.
Carting: small squares, $1.25/bale; round rolls 1.2m to 1.5m, $6.75, all other sizes, $7.95; large squares by negotiation. Prices based on unobstructed run up to 2km on-farm.
OTHER
Windrowing: $49.35/ha; down or difficult crops and large areas by negotiation.
Harvesting: standing coarse grain, $133.50/ha; windrowed coarse grain, $152.95/ha.
Down, tangled, fine seed, oilseed and difficult crops, by negotiation.
Auger and grain truck hire by negotiation.
Pit or bunker silage, $310 per cubic metre per hour.
Road haulage (machinery or fodder): by negotiation.
CULTIVATION
General mouldboard ploughing: $192.30/ha (deep and heavy duty by negotiation).
General disc ploughing: $108.65/ha (deep and heavy duty work by negotiation).
Offset discing: primary, $112/ha; secondary, $93.75/ha.
Scarifying: $100.60/ha.
Secondary tillage: $49.35/ha.
Pasture harrowing: $49.35/ha.
Rotary hoeing: $212.40/ha.
Power harrowing: $181/ha (air seeder is an additional $74.10/ha).
Sowing cereals: $74/ha into prepared seed bed.
Direct drilling: $113.30/ha.
Disc sod seeding: $67.25/ha.
Rolling: $39.50/ha.
Deep ripping, deep tillage: by negotiation.
Chisel ploughing: $121.75/ha.
Boom spraying (price does not include sprays): $27.90/ha.
Misting (sprays extra): $21.35/ha.
Spot spraying (price does not include sprays): $112.30/hour.
Slashing, 1.5m to 1.8m: $90.15/hour.
Wick wiping (price does not include chemicals): $115.80/hour.
Mulching, trenching: by negotiation.
Blue gum plantation establishment: by negotiation.
Slug baiting: by negotiation.
Fertiliser solids spreading: $15.20/ha; effluent spreading: $221.70/hour.
Liquid fertiliser spreading: $17.35/ha.
Mounding: by negotiation.
Laser grading: $269.75/hour.
Smudging: by negotiation.
Front-end loader: $132/hour; tray truck hire (eight tonnes-plus), $126.15/hour; rotary draining, $99.60/hour.
NORTHERN VICTORIA AND RIVERINA
Prices from the Northern Victoria and Riverina Fodder Conservation Operators' Association Inc.
Phone president Tony Froon on 0429 330 661 or secretary-treasurer Adam Whipp on 0417 524 113.
The following are suggested prices only and exclude GST. Consult your contractor for a quote on your specific activity.
Mowing: $49.40/ha.Mower-conditioning: $64.20/ha.
Windrower grouper: extra.
Raking or tedding: $42/ha.
Cartage: small squares, by negotiation; round bales, by negotiation.
Square bales, by negotiation.Windrowing: $46.30/ha.
HAY
Small squares: 40cm x 45cm, $1.40.
Large squares: 90cm x 90cm x 2.4m, $16; 1.2m x 90cm x 2.4m, $22; 1.2m x 1.2m x 2.4m, $26.
Round rolls: 1.2m x 1.5m, $16; 1.5m x 1.5m, $21; 1.5m x 1.8m, $24.
SILAGE
60cm x 90cm x 1.8m, $22.
Silage wrapping: $8 plus plastic.
CULTIVATION
Offset discing, primary: $98.90/ha; secondary, $92.40/ha.Scarifying: $74/ha.
Secondary tillage: $74/ha.
Harrowing: $49.40/ha; rotary hoeing, $91.40/metre cut/hour; power harrowing, $91/metre cut/hour.
Sowing cereals into prepared bed: $66.70/ha; direct drilling, $66.70/ha; disc sod seeding, $66.70/ha.
Rolling: $39.50/ha; boom spraying, $17.30/ha.
Spot spraying: $110/hour; slashing, $90/hour.Effluent spreading: $220/hour; laser grading, $264.50/hour.
WEST GIPPSLAND
PRICES supplied by the West Gippsland Agricultural Contractors Association.
Phone president William Anker on 0438 772 541 or secretary/treasurer Shelby Anderson on 0412 360 407.
SILAGE
Mowing: $73/metre/hour.
Mower-conditioning: $87.65/metre/hour.
Raking or tedding: $36.30/metre/hour.
Silage wagons: $12 per cubic metre.Self-propelled chopper: by negotiation.
Rolling tractors: $110 minimum per hour.
Baling silage roll: $15.65.
Baling silage square: $19.40.
Wrapping roll (plastic extra): $10.
Tractor hire (includes driver): $110 minimum per hour.
Net wrap bale (1.2m x 1.2m): $2.30 per bale extra; chopper bale: $4.40 per bale extra.
HAY
Small squares (35cm x 40cm x 45cm) in price per bale - under 200: mowing 88c; raking 64c; baling (inc twine) $2.15; total $3.65.200-500: mowing 66c; raking 50c; baling (inc twine) $1.65; total $2.80.
Over 500: mowing 60c; raking 45c; baling (inc twine) $1.25; total $2.30.
Carting (if required): $2.20 per bale up to 1km unobstructed; $3.15 per bale in rough or hilly areas.
Rolls: 1.2m x 1.2m, mowing $5.95; raking $4.45; baling (inc twine) $15.85; total $26.25.1.5m x 1.2m, mowing $8.15; raking $6.10; baling (inc twine) $19.95; total $34.20.1.8m x 1.2m, 1.5m x 1.5m and 1.5m x 1.7m, mowing $11.60; raking $8.70; baling (inc twine) $27.75; total $48.05.
Stacking (if required): $3.30/bale or $146/hour.Net wrap, extra per bale: $2.30.
Large squares: 90cm x 90cm x 2.4m, mowing $9.20; raking $7.10; baling (inc twine) $24.30; total $40.60.1.2m x 90cm x 2.4m, mowing $16.60; raking $12.15; baling (inc twine) $26.05; total $54.80.
Stacking (if required): $3.30/bale or $146/hour.Net wrap, extra per bale: $2.30.
OTHER SERVICES
General mouldboard ploughing, $234/hour; general disc ploughing, $160.60/hour (deep and heavy by negotiation).
Offset discing (primary and secondary), $204.60/hour.Scarifying, $168/hour; secondary tillage, $168/hour; pasture harrowing, $175.35/hour; rotary hoeing, $211.85/hour or $61.40/metre/hour.
Power harrowing with rotary tiller and seeder, $233.75/hour or $67.75/metre/hour; with air seeder, by negotiation.
Sowing cereals into prepared seed bed, by negotiation; direct drilling, $124.90/ha.
Rolling, $153.40/hour; deep ripping, $219.15/hour; deep tillage, $226.45/hour.
Chisel ploughing, $168/hour; boom spraying (plus sprays), $131.55/hour; misting, $122.80/hour; spot spraying, $102.25/hour plus sprays; slashing (1.5m and 1.8m), $120.35/hour; wick wiping, $102.25/hour (plus chemical); mulching, $219.15/hour; fencing, by negotiation.
Slurry tank, $204.55 an hour; fertiliser spreading, $109.60/hour, or $43.85 a tonne for super and $29.20/tonne for lime.
Tip truck and bulldozer hire, by negotiation; rotary draining, $109.55/hour; front-end loader, $146.10/hour; muck and effluent spreading, $204.55/hour; tray truck hire (eight tonnes-plus), $138.75/hour, liquid fertiliser spraying, by negotiation.
