southern MN | thinkstoomuch - 4/17/2024 06:41
If you don't want to do it, price it high enough that you would consider doing it.
If you need to get rid of the manure, cover the trucking because the pumps would run regardless where it would go.
If you want to sell it fairly at cost. Charge for trucking by the hour from when you turn the key on to turn it off and the coop price for the npk value equivalent to fertilizer analysis. Could drop the cost of npk value if you don't have use of the nutrients yourself.
Don't short yourself in price as small fields take time. Distance takes time. Conforming to buyer expectations take time, patience, and stress. Dealing and avoiding with ruts in a hay field takes stress.
Ultimately what's it worth to you?
Good advice mostly.
From the buyers perspective, fertilizer you can blend to exactly what is needed, and will be less traffic on the field. N is kind of difficult to quantify as to what and when you actually get any.
So I’ve seen where the N isn’t billed for; or the fertilizer value is figured at 2/3 value of commercial or less?
There are benefits to manure as well, long term and so I’m not saying it’s negative! But if you are billing for the manure itself, you have to adjust the price to be competitive with the more handy to use commercial stuff maybe.
Trucking is mostly a fixed cost and often is the bigger deal in the equation, if it needs to be hauled far the trucking costs can lower the manure value more so.
Paul
Paul |
Applying Liquid Manure
