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Farm Mechanization for Increased Efficiency Richard Wiswall Cate Farm, Vermont March 2014 www.catefarm.com www.richardwiswall.com Acknowledgements This presentation was developed for UVM Extension New Farmer Project With funding from the

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Farm Mechanization for Increased Efficiency

Richard Wiswall Cate Farm, Vermont March 2014 www.catefarm.com www.richardwiswall.com

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Acknowledgements

This presentation was developed for UVM Extension New Farmer Project With funding from the Northeast SARE Professional Development Program http://www.uvm.edu/newfarmer

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Contents

  • Why mechanize?
  • Fertilizing
  • Seedbed preparation
  • Seeding and transplanting
  • Cultivation
  • Irrigation
  • Spraying
  • Harvesting and washing
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Why Mechanize?

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“It paid for itself in one day!”

I’m not so sure…….. Farmers who have already made the purchase of a piece of equipment are vested in it, and its success. Do the Pencil Test

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Cost/Benefit Analysis

Current way of doing it

Wash, sort, and bag 4000# beets using tub (160 25#

bags)

40 hours at $15/hour=$600 If 12,000# of beets (480 bags) 120 hours at $15= $1800

With new tool

Wash, sort and bag with $2200 new barrel washer 20 hours at $15/hour=$300. Payback in 7 seasons If 12,000# of beets (480 bags) 60 hours at $15= $900 Payback in 2.5 seasons

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Basic 50 HP two wheel drive tractor

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Fertilization

2 wheel drive bucket tractor loading compost

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3 PTH Cone Spreader for fertilizer

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3 PTH Offset Disks

Seed bed preparation

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S-tine harrows

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Pulls weeds to surface to dry

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12’ wide chain harrows

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Mini chisel with hilling disks

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3 PTH Bedformer, notice spring row markers

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3 PTH rototiller with markers

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3 PTH PTO Spader

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3 PTH three row seeder

Seeding

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3 PTH Cone Spreader for seeding

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Grain Drill, ground driven

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3 PTH plastic mulch layer

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Greenhouse trolley, Richard’s favorite tool

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3 PTH two row Mechanical transplanter

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Ground driven one row Mechanical Transplanter

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Water wheel transplanter

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3 PTH Kovar tine weeder, blind cultivation

Cultivation

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Flame weeder for stale seedbed

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Electric Allis G tractor with baskets and rear sweeps

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Close up of belly mounted Buddingh basket weeders

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1956 Farmall Cub, offset seat/engine with baskets

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Farmall Cub with belly mounted sweeps

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4 inch sweeps at 13” row spacing, all in line

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Cub with sweeps, hilling celeriac, burying in row weeds

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Williams tool bar system, with adjustable tines and gauge wheels

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3 PTH sweeps with side dresser

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PTO irrigation pump

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3 PTH PTO Sprayer

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Harvest

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‘Brush Hog’ Rotary Mower

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3 PTH Bedlifter

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Bedlifter undercutting parsnips

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PTO potato chain digger harvesting echinacea

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1 row root harvester

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Winter wheat almost ready for harvest: August

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1950s Allis AllCrop combine harvesting wheat

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Flow-through barrel washer for root crops

Post harvest

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Brush washer with in-feed table and rotary sort table