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Harvest & truck loads calculator

How many trucks will the paddock fill? Turn your area and yield into tonnes, truck loads and bin loads - and see how often a truck needs to leave the paddock.

The paddock or the whole crop. 1 acre = 0.405 ha.

Your own estimate or last year’s figure. 1 t/ha ≈ 0.4 t/acre.

What your truck or trailer legally carries on your roads.

Optional: what one bin or cart holds. 0 to skip.

Optional: what your header or combine gets through. 0 to skip.

Optional: your own contract or cash price. 0 to skip.

The paddock should fill

6 truck loads5 full loads + one of 10 t
150 t165.3 short tons
28 ta truck load

Truck loads off the paddock

Chaser bin or cart loads
8 bin loads · 1.4 bins fill a truck
Harvesting time
Enter your ha an hour
Trucks needed
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Crop value at your price
Enter your own $/t
Each full truck carries
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How we work it out

  • Tonnes: hectares × tonnes a hectare. So 50 ha at 3 t/ha is 150 t.
  • Truck loads: tonnes ÷ payload, rounded up. 150 t in 28 t trucks is 5 full loads and a sixth of 10 t.
  • Time and trucks: hectares ÷ your ha an hour; your ha an hour × t/ha shows the tonnes coming off, and how often a truck fills.

Yield is never certain until it’s in the bin - check your own yield monitor or weighbridge tickets as you go. Load limits depend on your truck, permits and roads, so stay within your legal payload. This is arithmetic on your own numbers, not advice, a grain price or a yield estimate. Nothing you type is stored or sent anywhere.

Drying or storing the grain?

See how much the grain shrinks when it’s dried, or how many tonnes your silo holds.

Grain moisture shrink Silo capacity calculator