2025 Custom Rate Survey

2025 Wisconsin Custom Rate Survey

Estimated 15 minutes to complete

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2025 Wisconsin Custom Rate Survey

We are conducting a survey to estimate custom rates for common Wisconsin farming operations and we need your help. Hiring custom operations is an important part of modern farming, but determining fair rates to charge can be challenging. To help meet this need, we are conducting this survey and will publish a short report summarizing our findings on typical custom rates for Wisconsin. The link below takes you to an online survey.

You can help determine fair rates for custom operators in Wisconsin.

If you are a farmer or a custom operator who performed or hired custom services in 2024, please click the link below to the survey and complete the sections that pertain to you. The survey asks about rates for tillage; planting and seeding; fertilizer and chemical application; manure services; grain harvesting, hauling and drying; silage, haylage, and hay services; and tractor and machinery rental.

The survey should take at most about 15 minutes to complete. Your participation is entirely voluntary. You can choose to exit at any time. Your responses will be confidential, and published results will be anonymous. The survey is funded by the Division of Extension at UW-Madison.

As a token of our appreciation, those who complete the survey with valid responses will be entered into a raffle for one of ten Fleet Farm and/or Cabela’s gift cards for $100. Participants will be asked to provide their contact details at the end of the survey for the raffle.

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Thank you,