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[okbuckaroo]

Does anyone have the 2009 rates for round and small squares? Or what they are charging to cut, rake, and bale in the Oklahoma area?....thank you

[downtownjr]

No luck on the 2009...you probably seen this but maybe you can adjust a bit and use the 2007-2008. I also attached the Iowa 2009 and Kansas 2008 for a comparison. Hope it is helpful.

Oklahoma 2007-2008
http://pods.dasnr.okstate.edu/docush...07-2008web.pdf

Iowa 2009
http://www.extension.iastate.edu/Pub...ons/FM1698.pdf

Kansas 2008
http://www.nass.usda.gov/Statistics_...s/custom08.pdf

[okhillbilly]

Hi. Where you located at? Balling rates are depending on who does it most of the time. What size? Net wrap or not? How much work are you going to do? I paid a guy to make some round bales for me the last 2-3 yrs. Cheapest and hardest working guy I ever met. Charged $18.00 for a 4x5 twine wrap bale last year . He's very busy and hard to get to come when you want it done. But well worth it. I cut some of it that he baled last year and he only charged me $8.00 for raking and baling those. I heard of several cutters charging $30.00 for bigger (5x5) net wrap bales. Some of the cost depends on the price of fuel at the time.

[okhillbilly]

Talked to the guy that did the baling for me last year this weekend. He bought a new baler this year and said his 4x5 bales are a couple hundred pounds heavier than they where last year. Anyway he's charging $17.00 to make them this year. That's cutting, raking and baling.

[mlappin]

Slightly different here.

$12-$15 a acre for mowing
$5 per acre for tedding
$5 per acre for raking
$8 a bale for net wrap
customer charged for acid by the amount used.

[okhillbilly]

This is one of the cheapest guys around. I like his prices and he's a hard worker. Does you right when he works for you. Just hard to get on his schedule. He also will come and charge for seperate tasks. But I usually just have him do it all. Not alot of acid used around here that I know of. I,m sure there is in NW Okla. Alot more alfalfa grown up there.

[okbuckaroo]

yeah he seems real cheap I get prices from 20.00 -25.00 to cut rake and bale

[PMA]

I charge $15.00 per round bale, 4X5, cutting, tedding, raking and baling in South Carolina.

[RCF]

We are located in Texas and we get $22 to cut, rake and bale but ours are about 5 1/2 ft tall and if we do everything we have a 2 bale per acre minimum.
Our prices are:
Mowing $14/acre for mowing with our mower conditioner and laying it flat
Raking $6/acre
Tedding $5/acre
Baling $8-10 bale depending on how far we go and the amount of hay that it makes.

[panhandle9400]

swathing starts at 18.00 per acre for alfalfa,wheat,oats taller stuff as feed 18.00 up to 7 feet tall then a 1.00 per foot over 7 'so for 10ft. feed would be 21.00 per acre,,, round bales 18.00 each large squares 20.00 each ,,, rake 7.00 per acre, stacking is 5.00 per bale