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Machinery cost

Tractor and implement hourly cost from depreciation, interest, fuel, maintenance and operator, with the cost per hectare from operating capacity.

Machine hourly cost

Calculate the hourly cost of a tractor or implement from depreciation, interest, insurance, repairs, fuel and operator, and the cost per hectare from the output rate.

Tractor and implements per hour and per hectare

Operating capacity

Calculate the theoretical and effective capacity of the machine in hectares per hour and per day, using working width, speed and field efficiency.

Hectares per hour and per day

Passes and diesel

Calculate the number of passes, the working time and the diesel use for a plot, with row length, working width, speed and turning time.

Passes, hours and diesel per field plot

Buy or keep machine

Compare the equivalent annual cost of keeping your current machine with that of buying a new one, including depreciation, interest, maintenance and the cost per hour worked.

Annual and hourly cost of keeping or replacing

Buy, finance or rent

Compare the cost per hour of a machine bought outright, financed, leased or rented by the hour, over the same useful life period.

Cost per hour of cash purchase, financing, leasing and rental

Owned or outsourced

Compare the cost per hectare of doing the work with your own machine, with fixed and variable cost, against the outsourced service price, and see the break-even area between the two options.

Cost per hectare with own machine and with outsourced service

Machine depreciation

Calculate a machine's depreciation by the straight-line method, the declining balance method and by hours worked, with the book value year by year and the cost per hour.

Depreciation per year and per hour using the three methods

Own truck: cost per km

Calculate the annual cost of your own truck, the cost per kilometre driven and per hour of operation, including depreciation, interest, insurance, driver, diesel and maintenance.

Annual, per-kilometre and per-hour cost of a truck or own transport

Diesel per machine hour

Estimate diesel consumption per hour for a tractor, combine harvester, or pump engine from power and load factor, and the fuel cost per hectare.

Liters per hour and diesel cost per hectare

Tractor power for the implement

Estimate the tractor power needed for an implement, from the required traction force, working speed, and traction efficiency, in kW and cv.

Engine power from force and speed