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Worksheet 2 |
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Are Fire Ants Costing Your
Hay Operation Money |
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On how many acres do you usually
produce hay? |
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How many cutting do you usually
make per year? |
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What is your average profit per
bale? |
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How have fire ants increased your operating costs? |
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More Expensive Equipment Price |
Number of Years
Used |
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Cost of broken equipment or faster
wear per year: |
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Parts |
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Labor (including your time) |
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Add to get total breakage |
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| 3 |
Stops to clean out machinery: |
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Stops per cutting x cuttings
per year |
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Minutes per stop |
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Hourly cost (labor and machine
time) |
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Cost of lost time |
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Do you have to raise your cutter
to avoid mounds? If so, how much yield is lost? |
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Bales per acre |
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Profit per bale |
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multiply bales per acre by profit
per bale |
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Lose per acre |
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Multiply number of acres by loss per acre |
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Lost yield = |
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Other Cost? Give total. |
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Total losses from 1-5 |
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Now divide total losses by number
of acres to get loss per acre |
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If your loss per acre is: |
More than $15 you can probably
make money by treating for fire ants |
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Less
than $15 but more than $6, you may still be able to
make money
using alternative/non chemical methods |
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Less
than $6, fire ant treatment would not be justified |
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