Feedstorm ROI Calculator
Primary Sales Australia

Feedstorm cross auger: what value can it bring to your harvest?

This is a tool for talking through the numbers together, not a fixed answer. Put in your own speed, blockages and machine costs as we go, and we'll see what it adds up to for your program.

Let's see if the numbers stack up on your harvest.
From the field, Lachie Finlay, contract harvester: picked up an extra 2 km/h in canola after fitting an adjustable cross auger, especially in bushy, fluffy crops.
From the field, Trevor Piggott, Chapman Valley WA: running Case Class 7 headers with MacDon D60 fronts, Trevor found the Feedstorm "increased our ground speed by 2-4km an hour" in big canola crops, with "better feeding capacity" and far fewer blockages in lupins too.
Investment
Enter your quoted price including fitment
Machine & crop
e.g. canola, lentils, lodged or bushy, fluffy crop area
Operating: without Feedstorm
Slower in bushy, fluffy crop due to blockage risk
We allow 8 minutes per blocker (stop, clear, restart)
Operating: with Feedstorm
Extra speed gained. Grower-reported gain in canola/bushy crop: +2 km/h
We allow 8 minutes per blocker (stop, clear, restart)
Reality check: tonnes per day, without Feedstorm
Field efficiency, standard reference: 80%
80% standard efficiency allows for headlands, trees and normal stops, based on roughly 2 blockers a day. More blockers than that pulls efficiency down; fewer pulls it back up.
Without Feedstorm
With Feedstorm
Operating cost
Kondinin Group: Class 8 harvester >$700/h. Adjust to your own machine class.
tonnes of crop need to cover cost
A harvest day: hours
Without Feedstorm
Field efficiency
Hectares per hour
Tonnes per hour
Tonnes for the day
With Feedstorm
Field efficiency
Hectares per hour
Tonnes per hour
Tonnes for the day
The full program: ha
Without Feedstorm
Hours of harvest
Total tonnes harvested
With Feedstorm
Hours of harvest
Total tonnes harvested
Extra hectares per hour
more ground covered
Hours saved, full program
to harvest the same area
Value of hours saved
at $/h
Tonnes harvested in hours saved
cross-check vs breakeven
Full breakdown