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Booner
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What would you say the cost per acre is to plant food plots - fertilizer, lime, seed(assume oats/clover, nothing expensive), diesel, fuel, herbicide. Not including your time or tractor time.
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Freak of Nature
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10 point
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Rebelman beat me to it. He's spot on at $300.
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I was gonna say between $225-300.
No good decision was ever made from a swivel chair.
Gen. Patton
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:10
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You must be planting some really fancy seeds to cost $300 per acre. It costs us about $150 an acre for fall plots
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I myself plant about $50 a bag seed on my few plots. It works for what I want.
No good decision was ever made from a swivel chair.
Gen. Patton
I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
Jeremiah 17:10
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Booner
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I had figured $300 also...way more expense than just seed! Was talking to a guy who said he was going to start doing plots for folks around him and was trying to figure out a good per acre price for everything - he said he was thinking around $75. I bit my tongue because I didn’t have my spreadsheet handy.
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I myself plant about $50 a bag seed on my few plots. It works for what I want. No fertilizer, no fuel? My fertilizer cost is about double the cost of seed
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Freak of Nature
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Freak of Nature
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"Why do you ask"?
Too many people spend money they don't have , on things they don't need, to impress people they don't know.
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Grumpy Old Man
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I've never calculated the per acre cost. I'm afraid it would be a shock.
I hate making a good first impression. There’s no way I can keep that shit up.
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I like this number as well with everything factored in.
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Freak of Nature
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I have spent $200/ac on foodplots many of times, but none that I was proud of afterwards.
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Old Mossy Horns
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$200-250 acre is about right. I’m normally cheaper on fert then seed though. I usually go 100 pounds per acre then another 100 pounds an before Christmas.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Old Mossy Horns
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Hayman probably doesn’t want to tell what he spent last year on plots. 😬
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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300# 13-13-13. $90
100# wheat/oats/rye seed. $30
Roundup $5
Fuel $10
Lime every few years $25
Worst case $150 on average or less.
What are y’all planting that costs $300+ per acre? I must be forgetting something.
BTR Scorer in NW Alabama
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Fancy
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Fancy
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If y’all are spending $300/acre you’re ripping yourself off.
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I am in the $200/AC range and do not skimp.
100 lbs of a great 5-way fall mix-$80
300 lbs of Triple Thuteen- $90
Fuel, Glyphosphate- $20
Clover- $20
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Booner
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lime $60 per ton spread by co-op, I put minimum 1 ton per year, did 2 tons last year
fert - $120+ per acre depending on the mix that soil sample tells me, spread by co-op
seed - $30-50 depending on type of seed
fuel/herb/taxes/samples/misc - $35-40 per acre
Where am I off?
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We use about 100 lb per acre seed and 200 lb trip 13. A couple of our members are pushing to go to 400 lb seed/acre which I thought was crazy until I saw their plots and they put the club plots to shame.
jmlane
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Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
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I'm probably running around $60 an acre now
Folks that know don't shoot old does........ 
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