Standing straw prices 2015!

[gone up the hill]

First sale of 2015..

Winter barley to £65 acre ( all lots between £55/ and £65 )

Winter wheat :

First lot at £45 acre

Several lots at £40/ acre ( 1.5t + acre crops )

Quite a few lots failed to reach their reserve ( which funny enough was £40!! )

Year on year taking in account yields I would say the wheat on average was down a good £20/ acre!!

Personally both the wheat and barley was £10/ acre too expensive imo!

 

[Brisel]

Where was the auction?

 

[Chae1]

Why do you buy per acre? It's all per bale up here.

 

[gone up the hill]

Where was the auction?

Mid Devon,

Thousands of acres for sale around here! iv been buying standing straw for 18/19 years and have never known so much for sale locally!!

 

[gone up the hill]

Why do you buy per acre? It's all per bale up here.

Always been the way down here ( no idea why tbh )

 

[tw15]

Chopper blades to sharpen in the morning i think .
Will phone the neighbour if need straw i recon.

 

[Brisel]

Even standing straw pre harvest? I sell mine by the acre for winter cereals. Spring barley mostly by the bale or per tonne as straw yield is more variable.

 

[Brisel]

Chopper blades to sharpen in the morning i think .
Will phone the neighbour if need straw i recon.

Not this one - all sold subject to agreeing with auction prices...

 

[d williams]

First sale of 2015..

Winter barley to £65 acre ( all lots between £55/ and £65 )

Winter wheat :

First lot at £45 acre

Several lots at £40/ acre ( 1.5t + acre crops )

Quite a few lots failed to reach their reserve ( which funny enough was £40!! )

Year on year taking in account yields I would say the wheat on average was down a good £20/ acre!!

Personally both the wheat and barley was £10/ acre too expensive imo!

Why did you think their £10/acre to dear yield or because of end prices of end products

 

[gone up the hill]

Not this one - all sold subject to agreeing with auction prices...

All straw should be baled and removed from fields

 

[gone up the hill]

Why did you think their £10/acre to dear yield or because of end prices of end products

TBH I looked at a neighbour's of this farm wheat which is entered into a sale on Friday and that was half the yield at best of what was sold today! the crops today will if cut correctly yield very well ( and they were very clean to )..

The reason they were a tenner too dear is because the end prices of other products are thru the floor and straw like everything else will have to drop but also they were to dear because their is so much straw for sale locally!!

 

[Brisel]

All straw should be baled and removed from fields

It's not like you to want cheap straw, is it?

 

[Steevo]

Heck! At that rate prices here may not be anything like the £40 mark for wheat - won't sell much here at much less so may well be chopping a fair bit too!

 

[gone up the hill]

It's not like you to want cheap straw, is it?

of course not

Joking aside standing straw/ delivered straw prices have become far too expensive the last few years and some reality needs to be put back into the market and bring it down to a more sensible level for both buyer and seller.. ( which £30/ 40 acre for wheat is ) .

Hell of a lot on the market this year from farms that were dairying/ running beef herds that have sold them and hence have no need for straw..

 

[Brisel]

If those prices lower as they go east there will be a lot of choppers in gear. There's a level beyond which many will not go, and that will be tested this year by what you are saying. We'll see who values it the most.

 

[kill]

Offered wheat straw a few weeks back for £50 a ton delivered in so what cost would standing need to be to match that with the risk of possibly lossing it to the weather and baling and handling and maybe turning cost???

 

[Brisel]

@Forage Trader

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Not much to say realy, I never buy standing straw and most if not all straw around here is shipped in, haulage can't come down and the price of straw baled is at chop price level in the East so can't see much room for the price to drop, but who knows, just be careful as if you spout on to much they may just all chop it and yiu will end up with a price rise by spring

 

[Heathland]

Bale pretty much the lot here, just wondering if the pea haulm is worth anything.
Don't worry all you guys that think I'm mad, it's replaced with either chicken muck or nutri-bio.

 

[General-Lee]

Boss has entered some of ours in for tomorrow, 1st time in quite a while.