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Equipping for Efficiency
- 1. Equipping for Efficiency 2014 Tim Livingstone Strawberry Hill Farm www.strawberryhillfarm.ca
- 4. Why use equipment • Replace Labour – make work easier • Improve quality/producJon • Ease pinch points in producJon Jming • Physically do jobs you can do by hand – Plow – Lay plasJc Jghtly – Mow – LiN weights
- 8. Type of system long term? • Max 2 acre market style garden? • What about Livestock? • Is good farmland very limited? • What system is best suited – All by hand • Most work, least cost, most efficient use of space – Walk behind tractors • Easier, faster, more expensive, and sJll quite efficient – Larger Tractors (40 hp and up) • Much easier, much faster, much more expensive, less efficient use of space
- 13. $$ What is a reasonable? • Our basic cost proporJons? – Crops: 25%DC, 50% Labour, 25% Farm – Livestock: 50%DC, 25% Labour, 25% Farm • Try to allocate 10% of gross sales to equipment and other capital improvements every year. – Want to see overall farm net worth constant or rising all the Jme. Usually do a full assessment once a year and spot check throughout.
- 14. How to spread the $ • Lease – expense the equipment • Outright purchases – 10% tax rebate in NB – Up front Purchase – 3% savings possible – Purchase over Jme • ie: 12 month no interest • ie: 72 month with monthly payments
- 16. Making the choice! • $ Spent versus $ Saved – Tunnel paid in first year – Bed shaper and plasJc mulch layer pays annually • MulJ-‐use equipment – Tractor with loader – S-‐Jne culJvator • Equipment with the most hours uJlized
- 17. Borrow/Rent, or Own • Borrowing or renJng can be ideal – Round baler for 120 round bales a year – Get to know the neighbors – Buy a trailer so you can transport equipment – “Borrow” and fix up an old implement • Own the items you use a lot and don’t have other access to • Benefit of using a more tradiJonal tractor – More likely to find a bush hog then a BCS flail mower
- 18. New or Used • Are you a mechanic? • Do you have employees using it? • Does it have lots of moving parts? • Can you find it used?
- 19. Few other Factors • Concurrent Use – Self powered zero turn mower – Gator – Truck with flat bed • Changing Implements / FuncJons – Belly mount versus 3 point hitch • Maximizing labour in busy Jmes – Ex: PlasJc mulcher versus a vacuum seeder – Gator or UTV
- 20. Other Equipment for Efficiency • Vacuum Seeder • Storage boxes and bins • Storage faciliJes – Truck box – Heated/cooled rooms • Drum Washers • Furnace • Flame Weeders • Covers and Sand bags