Machinery costing calculator

Use this calculator to estimate the costs of owning or operating implements, tractors or other machines, such as combine harvesters and self-propelled sprayers.

According to our 2024 analysis of top-performing farm characteristics, the most successful farm businesses understand and manage business costs.

This calculator can generate costs for your owned machinery and implements.

You can use this information to decide whether owning machinery is the best strategy or whether an alternative approach may be better, such as using contractors or machinery rings.

The machinery costing calculator is a Microsoft Excel workbook.

It includes the following sheets:

• Cover sheet: A basic overview of the calculator
• Contents: An index of the sheets in the calculator
• Calculator 1: Tractor costing calculator per hour
• Calculator 2: Combine harvesters and self-propelled machines costing calculator per hectare
• Calculator 3: Implement costing calculator per hectare
• Calculator 4: Operation cost calculator per hectare
• Calculator 5: Calculate and compare machine data, including work rates

It also includes two tables to determine maintenance costs based on annual hours used as a percentage of purchase price:

• Table 1: Covers tractor maintenance
• Table 2: Covers other machines and implements

Apart from data entry cells, all other cells are locked to protect their contents, such as descriptions and formulas.

Rows that include data entry cells are described in column A.

If the row label description starts with ‘Enter’, enter your data in the neighbouring cells in the same row.