From time to time, Prairie Farmer gets requests for the custom rate estimates on various field operations. Fortunately, ag economists at the University of Illinois keep up on all those numbers, and have an entire listing of costs for various field operations located on their Farmdoc website.

Click here (http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/manage/newsletters/fefo06_16/fefo06_16.html) for a look at their summary, including commentary by farm management experts Dale Lattz and Gary Schnitkey.

Click here (http://www.farmdoc.uiuc.edu/manage/machinery/machinery_summary.html) for the complete table of custom rates, which also lists tractors of various sizes.