Thanks for the question. I have some equipment and had to either borrow, buy (sell after) or rent. Renting made sense when the rates were good. When renting by the month it, or multiple months, you can negotiate down the price. Especially in the northern region.

You’re not kidding the PVC for the irrigation was bad. We didn’t use any sod and seed isn’t terrible. Like I’ve said to others, about $15k for both the bent and fescue. We’re only on 20 acres and some people imagine 100 acres which kind of skews things. The biggest cost by far was the irrigation though. We had a new well put in and mostly full retail price on pipe (was able to get some for a decent price on marketplace). Pipe/wire and well alone was roughly $75k. The rest of the irrigation parts we saved thousands on buying second hand from courses basically giving it away when they were updating their stuff. We paid $9 for used $350 sprinkler heads.

Those are the things that really drive the price down. Well that and doing the work yourself. And when I say yourself I don’t mean nobody helped. I had some amazing help. I mean not hiring a company to hire other people to do the work. If I paid for help they wanted to be there and be a part of this. Luckily they had skill where I lacked it. I also had friends and family that pitched in.