ganderman
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- Location
- South lincs
Doubled the seed count!we are a bit short.
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AndrewB
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- Location
- Kincardineshire
I sold all my stock feed this week for processing £300 per tonne!
How long are you storing them before planting?
ganderman
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- Location
- South lincs
They will be put on a drying wall and be dry in 24 hrs, but probably a week to ten days.
- Location
- south norfolk, uk
Forgive a novice question, do they need to dry after cutting, before planting? Soil borne disease risk to them etc?
Foxcover
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Aren’t you supposed to put some sort of powder on them after they’ve been cut
ganderman
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- Location
- South lincs
We are drying them.
we are putting gypsum on the at the recommended rate but I don’t think it enough to do any good. Can use talc as well.
Another novice question,I get fed up peeling and cutting roasters, I presume they are machine cut
ganderman
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- Location
- South lincs
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Cure for high prices is high prices....
- Location
- West Suffolk
I like the way they’re cut near exactly in half. Some I’ve seen are all different shapes.
- Location
- West Suffolk
Trouble is the “high” prices are where they need to be to invest in the future of the job. Spuds at £150pt won’t get anyone very far nowadays (except the overdraft!)
serf
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- Location
- warwickshire
Not disagreeing with you but it's the same old same old , greed and fear drive any market ...
WRXppp
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- Location
- North Yorks
I think with empty cupboard looming, seed short or massive and counts down, new crops will be dug at low weights as demand will be high and less planted early and then the general bloody hard work you all put in to get them in and up last year will mean where normally after a good price year the acreage goes up there will actually be less in the ground, more of take a good year and run attitude, less going in round here, I may have 12 acres next year after not growing for 15 year, but that is after none of my own sheep any more, a big SFI, hiving off the cereals maybe and a deal to sell fancy varieties to the pub I’m going to be working at and having the scale to make it worthwhile.
ganderman
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- Location
- South lincs
Thank you , I don’t think it’s the fastest machine around but it does do an accurate job of cutting them.
Are prices still firming with planting getting later?
Austin7
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That depends where you start from. Good washed stockfeed delivered London £360 a ton, our best ( not that good ) £680. Best of the best, not ours, £800. Toss a coin where next, you might argue that the slack has been taken up by the bagged up stockfeed sales and that actually planting is not late. Or you could also argue that the rush to plant in soils that are truly not fit will come back and bite us, seed is being stretched to fit and what's the betting on a great 2024 drought. If you can't cope with the unknown don't grow spuds.