Machinery costs (Continued from Page DIO) assumed to be powered by diesel fueled tractors. An estimate of gas consumption can be made by multiplying the fuel consumption factor by 1.36. To obtain a gas cost figure, multiply by the appropriate cost per gallon to your farm. Total costs include cash costs, labor and fixed costs. Labor is figured at $4.75 per hour for un skilled labor and $7.50 for skilled labor. Operating tillage equipment is generally considered to require less skilled labor than planting and harvesting operations. Both wage rates already include a benefits package assumed at 30 percent. WE PROTECT YOUR Now you’ve got more reason than ever to go Allis-Chalmers! New 3- year/3000 hour warranty covers major engine and power train components for any new current production tractor of 15 or more PTO hp, purchased in 1984. And of course you still get one-year warranty protection covering all tractor components normally warranted by A-C. Allis-Chalmers reserves the right to alter or withdraw programs at its option without notice. MARSHALL MACHINERY Honesdale, Pa. 717-729-7117 nwi* Airville, Pa. 717-862-3967 B. EQUIP., me. Waynesboro, Pa 717-762-3193 BA REARM EQ. mC. Beavertown, PA 717-658-7024 BOTTERER A KOLESAR, INC. Mill Hall. Pa 717-726-3471 NICHOLS FARM EQUIP. Bloomsburg, Pa 717-784-7731 Fixed costs include depreciation, interest, insurance and housing. Depreciation is taken over 10 years with a 10 percent salvage value remaining and 10 percent in vestment credit taken the year of purchase. * “Interest and insurance are calculated by multiplying the average investment (new costs plus salvage value divided by two) times the rates of interest and insurance,” says Benson. While salvage value is no longer included in depreciation calculations for tax purposes, in reality some salvage value is offered at trade-in. The interest' rate used in this PEACE •OF MIND AS-INO. EH, INC. Rising Sun, Md. 301-398-6132 SHARTLESVILLE FARM SERV. Hamburg, Pa. 215-488-1025 B.HH. FjjgN EQUIP., JOHN W. SAMS t SONS UK. Annville, Pa. 717-867-2211 Remington, N.J 201-782-4242 ROY H. BUCHJNC. Ephrata, Pa. 717-859-2441 CJ. WONStDLER BROS. Quakertown, Pa. 215-536-7523 GROMELLI FARM SERVICE Quarryville, Pa. 717-786-7318 Better by Design A ALLIS-CHALMERS And here's more good news: A new low-cost Peace of Mind Warranty Extension Plan! It ex tends your 1-year full coverage to 3 years/3000 hours covers everything from turbocharger to radiator to injection pump, com pressor, steering cylinders, all electrical components except batteries... everything normally warranted for the original 1-year period. GJ. WONSIDLER BROS. Oley, Pa. 215-987-6257 L.H. BRUBAKER, INC. Lancaster. Pa. 717-397-5179 CANYON IMPLEMENTS INC. Manfield. Pa. 717-724-2731 PETERMAN FARM EQUIP. Carlisle, Pa 717-249-5338 year’s calculation was 13.5 per cent; last year’s was 14 percent. Insurance is figured at 0.75 per cent, and housing cost was set at 75 cents per square foot. Since there are no property taxes on machinery in Minnesota, none were included in the estimates. Custom Rates The total cost figures given in the tables can be multiplied by 20 percent to give a top-side custom rate estimate. “Custom rates will vary from area to area and are always a function of the demand for and the supply of those custom services.” Benson says. “If two farmers are trading their services, they may price their POWER PRO EQUIP. CO. Milroy, Pa. 717-667-6504 HUGHES BROS. INC. Westminster, Md 301-848-6313 VERNON E. STOP CO. Frederick, Md. 301-663-3185 WERTZ CARABE. INC. Lineboro. Md. 301-374-2672 nr Somerset. Pa 814-445-4189 lACK SHEARER EQUIP. Johnstown, Pa 814-266-9721 services on a cash-cost basis. This assumes that the value of their labor and machinery overhead would be approximately the same,” he says. If inputs, labor and machinery overhead are unequal, however, rates should be Davidson retires from Dow Chemical Except for three years as a Naval officer during World War 11, including service in the Mediterranean and Pacific, Davidson has devoted his entire career to research, development and stewardship of Dow’s agricultural products. He is a member of the Weed Science Society, American Society of Horticultural Science, American Chemicals Society and American Phytophathological Society. Davidson plans to use his ex tensive knowledge about agricultural chemicals by con tinuing to act as a part-time consultant for Dow. MIDLAND, Mi. After almost a half century with The Dow Chemical Company, John H. Davidson retired on June 1. He received a 50-year service award during a retirement tribute from his co-workers in Dow’s Agricultural Products Department in Midland, Mi. Davidson joined Dow in 1936 as an assistant horticulturist at the former Dow Agricultural Field Research Station in South Haven, Michigan. He received a B.S. degree in horticulture in 1937 and an M.S. degree in chemistry in 1940, both from Michigan State. He has hwn in Midland since 1957. m CAMP HILL Beachley-Hardy Seed Company will have Hybrex Hybrid Wheats available in limited quantities this fall on a test marketing basis, according to Frank Welsh, the firm’s marketing manager. These soft red winter wheats will be available in two hybrids - HW-3007 and HW-3021, for use in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and the Southern growing regions. Developed by Rohm and Haas, these high-yielding hybrids have tolerance to Powdery Mildew. Jjster) DIESELS 12-36 bhp Lancaster Farming, Saturday, Juna 23,1984—D1l Hybrid wheat available TS2/TS3 AIR COOLED DIESELS based on a total cost or suggested custom rate basis. By adding 20 percent to total costs to arrive at a custom rate, you’ll be covering items such as extra travel time and increased risk, along with some profit. JAD Hybrex Hybrid Wheats are the result of chemically induced male sterility which allows rapid and economic production of new wheat hybrids. The development of this hybrid wheat technology is comparable to the introduction of hybrid com on com technology during the past 50 years. Further information can be obtained by contacting Beachley- Hardy Seed Company, P.O. Box 336, Camp Hill, PA, 17011, or through your local Beachley- Hardy dealer.
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