Challenge 2: Cost planning of work operations

After planning the crop rotation, we are creating a calculation of the work operations to be expected in each crop culture with the agronomist. This means that we assess the cost of each culture cultivated on the farm relating to work operations performed in the given cultivation period. For this, we will use the cost table stored in AgroVIR (Settings/Employment/Groups), in which the costs have already been assigned to the stored work operations. Based on this, we can clearly determine prices, but let’s see the exact work operations required by each culture.

The agronomist will take care of the maize and sunflower area and also starts the winter rape and leaves the calculations for the winter wheat areas to you. Since practices are different at every farm, he summarizes the methods used here:
“In the areas, where we want to sow winter wheat, we start work operations with stubble ploughing. This is mostly done with heavy disc. Afterwards, we apply fertilizer (supplied with the Manitou) and prepare the seed-bed with the Horsch Joker. Sowing is done with a Horsch machine as well (supplied with a front-end loader tractor + trailer) and finally we finish the year with weed control (supplying is also required during spraying). We apply fertilizer in February again, then we spray the area against aphids. This is followed by another round of fertilizing and spraying, but now we defend against oulema and leaf diseases. In May another round of fertilization and two rounds of spraying follows and finally, we do one final round of spraying in the area for head protection. This is followed by harvesting and finally we do stubble ploughing with a cultivator.”

Based on this, create the calculations for the expected costs of work operations in the winter wheat areas. Use the following chart to enter the data. Fill in the rows and complete the sentences below. In the table, you can find the details not mentioned by the agronomist during his brief summary.