I have 90acres of 1st cut silage to sell to a dairy farm about 2 miles up the road, i have no idea what to charge him for it, what is the going rate per acre for silage? Its very good quality 2yr old lay, he will do all the contracting work so that wont be in the price
Standing Crop Silage
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buttercup
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- Location
- Sussex/Surrey
So you are selling standing grass...?
Rent would be well over £100 acre
No weeds, rocket fuel silage
No weeds, rocket fuel silage
Yes just standing grass
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
digester near me would pay several times that never mind what the dairy boys are prepared to pay for grass lets . Ican only assume your stabbing is with a rapier straight through his heart ,
haha, no. Just from a very uninformed point of view as no one else had commented when i started to type.
I sublet some pp first cut at £40 an acre and second at £30 - supply and demand i suppose.
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- Location
- somerset
been discussing this today, we have a grass 'surplus' this year, having sold half the dairy.
got a spring grazer interested, would be older pasture, we will keep the quality stuff. We came up with a figure of £50 ac, sort of 5 ton/ac at £10 ton, should be more than 5, but, its usually better to be 'reasonable', did try to sell some wrapped to them, but no, once cows out, that's it !
got a spring grazer interested, would be older pasture, we will keep the quality stuff. We came up with a figure of £50 ac, sort of 5 ton/ac at £10 ton, should be more than 5, but, its usually better to be 'reasonable', did try to sell some wrapped to them, but no, once cows out, that's it !
Typical forage costs £150/tonne dry matter.
Say a fair cut is 4 to 5t/acre, at 25% dry matter, is 1 to 1.25t dry matter.
Total value £150 to £187.50.
So, what shall we say for forager, trailers, buckrake, sheeting down... £100/acre?
Leaves £50 to £87.50/acre.
@Davy_g is not far off.
It the digester pays more, phone them up and see what they offer.
- Location
- Ceredigion
If you put fertiliser on it then no lees than £70 acre ,which wont leave you with a lot when you factor in the K oftake
Slurry back may sweeten the pill
Guys payying £200 acre here on cutting rents ,maybe 3 cuts but suppling all inputs , all you have to worry about is the noise from the harvesting keeping you awake at night
Slurry back may sweeten the pill
Guys payying £200 acre here on cutting rents ,maybe 3 cuts but suppling all inputs , all you have to worry about is the noise from the harvesting keeping you awake at night
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Are your sure it's not just Yorkshire Fog...
It's a pseudonym for Timothy FescueAre your sure it's not just Yorkshire Fog...
Tractorboy67
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Sell it over a weigh bridge like they do in New Zealand.
- Location
- South Devon
Does anyone actually weigh chopped silage or even big bales? Probably easier to work it out in small bales
Our absolute biggest cuts of hay are 150-180 bales per acre at near 20kg/bale (so only 3-3.6ton/acre) but I suppose much higher DM content in hay
ollie989898
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Do you want to have the same possibly repeated in future or not? I'd not shank the guy buying it, but I would have some arrangement for having slurry etc back to put the fertility back.
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
weigh everything in and out its a learning curve .I became a devotee of weighing nearly 40 years ago. Though appreciate difficulty is with standing crops is its a guesstimate ,experience helps though its not infallible .Does anyone actually weigh chopped silage or even big bales? Probably easier to work it out in small bales
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
£ 200 is way more than £60 and to my thinking is nearer the mark but could well be more, though I arnt rushing to buy as round here there seems to be a fair cutback in stock and an increase in so called herbal leys the nearer you get to the hills
- Location
- Ceredigion
Herbals have been increasing year on year mainy on beef and sheep , but then Suddenly with this new FSI they have gone mental
- Location
- Wiltshire
I’ve bought standing maize when every load has been put over a weigh bridge. Regularly buy a clamp from a chap, can move 1000t in a day. we put every trailer over a weigh bridge once and get an average and use that.Does anyone actually weigh chopped silage or even big bales? Probably easier to work it out in small bales
If i had some spare cash to spend i would seriously consider putting my own weigh bridge in.
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