Well I'm trying something new and I'm pushing hard and advertising alot for farm and acreage work with a tractor for hire. Within an hour after listing an ad for farm work I got a phone call asking to put in 15 acres of pasture land. The land has been cleared by a dozer and now just needs to be turned over to plant.
I'm novice with something like this so I'm thinking I'd need a atleast a 50hp tractor with a two or three bottom plow and a disc. There are some smaller grub work needing to be done, saplings 3/4" to 1" in diameter. I would have thought the dozer man would have got it clean with a root rake but guess he doesn't have one.
So I ask you farm guys for advise and knowledge. The 15 acres is for goats, and the window to plant here in Virginia is getting small. I am figuring around $2000 to $3000 an acre to work the ground and plant orchard grass.
I'm novice with something like this so I'm thinking I'd need a atleast a 50hp tractor with a two or three bottom plow and a disc. There are some smaller grub work needing to be done, saplings 3/4" to 1" in diameter. I would have thought the dozer man would have got it clean with a root rake but guess he doesn't have one.
So I ask you farm guys for advise and knowledge. The 15 acres is for goats, and the window to plant here in Virginia is getting small. I am figuring around $2000 to $3000 an acre to work the ground and plant orchard grass.