Mr. Ross planted 550 acres of rice. He disked a 20-foot strip traveling 4.6 miles per hour to help level the ground using 0.96 gallon per acre of diesel fuel. He used an 8-foot land planer to level the field averaging 9 acres per hour using 11.5 gallons of diesel fuel per hour. Diesel fuel sells for $3.17 per gallon. His soil test showed he needed 155-72-160 units of fertilizer per acre. He applied 150 pounds of starter fertilizer (11-48-0) per acre at $740 per ton. He used 46-0-0 urea at $502.10 per ton, 18- 46-0 DAP at $704.15 per ton, and 0-0-60 muriate of potash at $570.25 per ton. Mr. Ross harvested 168 bushels per acre of wet rice with moisture of 21 percent. Dry rice has a moisture level of 14 percent or less. A combine with a regular header could harvest 8.8 acres per hour. He
used a stripperheader that could do the job in 3/ /5 of the time. The rice mill dries and stores the rice in bins 42 feet indiameter, 33 feet high to the roof, with a roo
a. How many days did it take to disk and plane the field using a 15-hour day?
b. What was the fuel cost for disking and planing?
c. What did the fertilizer cost?
d. How many 15-hour days did it take to harvest the rice?
e. How many bins did it take to store the dry rice?
a. 7.4 days
b. $3,901.56
c. $113,766.58
d. 2.5 days
e. 2.2 bins
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