Broiler litter on hayfield

[Wewild]

Litter man stopped by today to start spreading. He puts on a load to 1 1/2 acres. That would be 6.6 tons to the acre. I forgot to walk the truck. That sounds like a lot of litter to the acre from the numbers being talked about on this post.

 

[Angus Cowman]

Ours is bought by the load. I guess they are 16' beds with rear spreaders and we spread a load to the acre for the most part. How much litter is in a truck that size? I'll have to walk off the bed to be sure maybe 14. Going rate around here is about $40 per load and they tack on mileage which varies some by year and supplier. We don't add anything else. Just the litter.

It's 10 tons per load. Actually, I'm starting to worry if my suppiler isn't just feeding it to a bunch of holstein steers. He hasn't shown up yet but the wheather is not good.

the guys around here running 14-16 ft bed are hauling roughly 6-7 tons pr load
the 20ft beds are around 9-10 tons per load

 

[dieselbeef]

wish i could get some down here