Acres Per Hour Calculator: Field Coverage Rate and Time to Complete

Your details

Imperial uses feet and miles per hour; metric uses metres and kilometres per hour.
The effective working width of your implement, not its overall frame width.
ft
Your average operating ground speed, not your peak or transport speed.
mph
Extra width covered on each pass to avoid missing strips. 0% is perfect, 10% is typical.
%
Fraction of time the machine is actually covering new ground, accounting for turns, stops, and refilling.
If provided, the calculator also shows how long the job will take.
ac
Acres per hourModerate output
8.73ac/hr

Effective field coverage rate

Hectares per hour3.53ha/hr
Effective working width18ft
Time to complete11.46hr
Time to complete688min
8.73 ac/hr
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Coverage rate: 8.73 acres per hour.

  • At 20 ft wide and 5 mph, your implement covers 8.73 acres (3.53 ha) every hour.
  • The 10% overlap reduces your effective swath, costing roughly 0.97 ac/hr compared to zero overlap. Tighter GPS guidance can shrink this.
  • Your 100 ac field will take approximately 11 hr 28 min to complete at this rate.

Next stepTo further improve throughput, look at reducing headland turns with longer passes or improving field shape.

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