Asparagus Harvester Cost-of-Harvest 

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Machine harvesting costs -  4 row asparagus harvester
This spread sheet is just an estimate…
Estimated Cost of Machine                         $100,000
Machine harvesting costs - 2005  3 row harvester
Cost of Machine $100,000.00
Acres Per Day Calcs
Row Center Distance 64.00 inches
SqFt/Acre 43560.00
Linear distance   feet per acre 8167.50 ft/acre
Acres per foot 0.00012 Acre/ft
5280 feet/mile 5280.00 ft/mile
Acres/Mile 0.65 Acres/Mile
Machine speed 2.00 Mph
Acres//hour/header 1.29 Acres/hour/header
Hours of Operation/day 20.00 Hours
Acres/day/row 25.86 Acres/day
Number of rows 4
Acres/day/machine 103.43 Acres/day
Cuttings/season 45.00 cuttings / season
Ownership costs
Cost of Machine $100,000.00 Dollars
Cost over 5 years @ 9% $25,045.65 dollars/season
Cost/Acre/Season $242.14
Maintenance Costs/season $6,000.00 dollars/season
Maintenance Costs/acre $58.01
Cost/acre/season 300.15
Labor Costs
Driver 14.00 dollars/hour
Worker 1 9.00 dollars/hour
Worker 2 9.00 dollars/hour
Total Labor 32.00 dollars/hour
Labor/cutting 640.00 dollars/cutting
Acres/cutting 103.43 acres/cutting
Labor/acre/cutting 6.19 Dollars/acre/cutting
Labor/acre/season 278.44 dollars/acre/season
Fuel Costs
cost of fuel 2.00 $/gallon
mpg 4.00 miles/gallon
gal/mile 0.25 gallons/mile
gal/acre 0.10 gallons/acre
$/acre/cutting 0.19 $/acre/cutting
$/acre/season 8.70 $/acre/season
Costs/acre/season 587.29 $/acre/season
Yield #/Acre Cost/pound Cost / Crate
1500 $0.39 $11.75
2000 $0.29 $8.81
2500 $0.23 $7.05
3000 $0.20 $5.87
3500 $0.17 $5.03
4000 $0.15 $4.40
4500 $0.13 $3.92
5000 $0.12 $3.52
5500 $0.11 $3.20
6000 $0.10 $2.94