Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | Jon - 9/24/2023 15:25
I do custom chopping, its time to get started sending bills out and i just cant get dialed into the pricing of silage bagging.
Silage bagging is a once and done with it process from the land owners perspective. Makes high quality feed with little concrete investment. Also allows for smaller face size. We have one particular customer that likes a big pile for winter feeding, and a couple bags for summer to keep spoilage to a minimum.
The problem with bagging is its just toooooooo slow.
From the setup & teardown time , to increase truck dump time. It easily cuts harvest crew productivity potential by 50 percent or greater. This can also aggravate the guys farther down the list when you are bagging and their corn is drying up.
Just thinking about this pricing. The bagger should command the price of the bag, use of machine, but what about the opportunity cost of lost production on the chopper and crew. If the customer put that 150- 300 ton in a ground pile and did a marginal job of protecting it from spoilage he could lose 10%+ some form of that $ should be rewarded to the bagger.
What is everyone else paying for 9' bags filled?
My bagger requires the use of the land owners tractor.
Iowa state said 9$ft, but no different prices between 8 and 12 ft bags . Thanks
Piling silage would be painfully slow too if you were waiting on a 4020 with a 148 loader to pack it all. You have to keep your equipment matched if you want everything to run at capacity.
We bag for about $9 per ton with a 550hp SP bagger. It doesn’t slow a big chopper much in corn, hardly at all in alfalfa, and can keep up with two choppers in earlage.
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