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Arizona Crop Custom Rates 2001/2002

The rates below are meant to serve as a guide to assist in the preparation of projected costs. The actual custom rate in your area may be slightly higher or lower than the rate presented below.

The numbers are averages derived from survey information provided by custom operators in Cochise, Pima, Pinal, Maricopa, La Paz, Mohave, and Yuma Counties.

 

       
 Job Name 

Per Hour

 Job Name 

Per Acre

Min

Max

Min

Max

 Check Borders
$25.00

$35.00

 Air/Insecticide, 3 gal Mix
$4.00

$4.50

 Make Borders
$25.00

$35.00

 Air/Insecticide, 5 gal Mix
$4.50

$4.95

 Laser Leveling
$70.00

$95.00

 Air/Insecticide, 7 gal Mix
$5.00

$5.50

 Work Ends
$30.00

$40.00

 Air/Defoliant 50 lbs <
$4.50

$4.75

 Spot Disk
$30.00

$45.00

 Air/Defoliant 100 lbs >
$6.00

$6.50

 Burn Ditches
$27.00

$29.33

 Broadcast Fertilizer
$6.00
$12.00
 Disk Ditches
$25.00

$35.00

 Ground Spray
$7.00
$12.00
 Knock Ditches
$25.00

$35.00

 Sidedress/inject
$10.70
$13.50
 Spray Ditches
$35.00

$41.00

 Lay By Spray
$8.00
$22.00
 Reseed
$25.00

$35.00

 Soil Fertility
$3.00

$6.00

 Spray Rig
$25.00

$30.00

 Field Scouting
$6.00

$10.00

 Floating
$35.00

$70.00

 Plant Alfalfa
$9.20

$12.00

 Run Furrow &
 Furrow-out
$25.00

$35.00

 Cover Alfalfa Seed
$6.00

$10.00

 Pull up Debris
$5.70

$6.50

 Plant Cotton
$9.75

$12.00

 Irrigation Set-up
$25.00

$30.00

 Drill Grains
$10.00

$12.00

 Set Pipe
$30.00

$33.00

 Plow
$20.00

$28.00

 Set Planter
$25.00

$35.00

 Laser Plane
$36.00

$50.00

 Drag Scraper
$27.00

$33.00

 Landplane
$11.13

$18.00

 Burn Stubble
$7.00

$7.61

 Chisel/Ripper
$15.00

$30.00

 Blade Work
$30.00

$35.00

 Split Borders
$4.33

$5.75

 Scraper Work
$20.00

$30.00

 Stubble Disk/Cultipack
$18.25

$30.00

  Hand Labor
$7.00

$7.61

 Stubble Disk
$13.25

$27.00

 Bird Control
$5.70

$6.50

 Disk
$10.00

$14.00

 Gopher Control
$5.70

$6.50

 Disk/Cultipack
$10.00

 $16.00

 Green Chop
$20.00

$30.00

 Disk Lister
$6.50

$8.00

 Dozer Work
$55.0
$125.00
 Listing
$10.00

$15.00

 Grader
$50.00
$60.00
 Mulching Disk
$7.00

$10.00

 Combining

±$165.00

 Mulch
$10.00

$23.00

 Cultivate
$10.00

$14.00

 Cultipack
$5.50

$6.20

 Floating
$10.00

$15.00

 Harrow
$6.50

$12.00

 Incorporator
$9.00

$18.00

 Spike
$7.75

$12.00

 Spring tooth
$8.00

$10.00

 Cultivate Lilliston
$6.00

$9.00

 Renovate
$10.00

$12.00

 Shape Beds
$9.50

$12.00

 Stalk Cutting
$10.00

$15.00

 Bermuda Grass Cutting
$12.00

$14.00

 Combining (Grains)
$25.00

$38.00

 Rake
$3.75

$8.00

 Swather
$7.75

$13.00

 Baling (per Bale)
$0.63

$0.70

 Roadsiding (Ton)
$9.00

$12.00

 Cotton Picking (per lint lb)
$0.07

$0.09

 2nd Picking
$25.00

$75.00

 Module Building
$9.00
$10.20

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Last updated August 8, 2001
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