Standing straw prices 2015!

[Will 1594]

An old farmer in his 80.s said he could not remember it wet as it was and for so long. And no he did not have dementure or been on the skull splitter

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Sounds like its a regular occurrence. Wales is generally considered wet, and there are periods like that [remember the floods in June a couple of years ago? but we seem to get there eventually with harvest.

Is this a one in five-year event? One in ten? One in fifty? Or more exceptional than that even?

it happened in Ireland 2 years ago, first time in my lifetime , glad i live on the side of a hill, your at the bottom

 

[Grassman]

It's a good thing that round balers and wrappers are plentiful. Imagine going back 50 years when haymaking was the only way!
Sounds like a bit of dry weather coming at the weekend. I hope you get some up north!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

haymaking was easy back then before balers were invented,

 

[Henarar]

Just put it on a tripod

 

[glasshouse]

What answer? Are you literate? [That's another couple of questions again. The clue is in the ????]

Hay is a cash crop, thats why we make it.
silage is virtually unsaleable and expensive.
Thats why we try to make hay whenever possible.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Hay is a cash crop, thats why we make it.
silage is virtually unsaleable and expensive.
Thats why we try to make hay whenever possible.

Yes I agree, if you can make good hay it's a profitable crop

 

[gone up the hill]

Yes I agree, if you can make good hay it's a profitable crop

Good hay will be worth a lot of money this year as so little has been made!

 

[Cowabunga]

Hay is a cash crop, thats why we make it.
silage is virtually unsaleable and expensive.
Thats why we try to make hay whenever possible.

Perhaps you should keep a few more beasts to eat it and sell them as a cash crop. At least you could make silage then. Its not a cash crop if you can't make quality hay in a significant proportion of years, its a dead loss.

Haymaking weather stopped in the 1960's apart from 1976 and the very occasional year with a hot fortnight at the right time of year.

 

[glasshouse]

Perhaps you should keep a few more beasts to eat it and sell them as a cash crop. At least you could make silage then. Its not a cash crop if you can't make quality hay in a significant proportion of years, its a dead loss.

Haymaking weather stopped in the 1960's apart from 1976 and the very occasional year with a hot fortnight at the right time of year.

Does your granny like being taught how to suck eggs?

 

[Cowabunga]

Does your granny like being taught how to suck eggs?

Yet you persist trying to make hay [as a 'cash crop'] which apparently can't be consistently harvested in your climate.
It takes all sorts!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Perhaps you should keep a few more beasts to eat it and sell them as a cash crop. At least you could make silage then. Its not a cash crop if you can't make quality hay in a significant proportion of years, its a dead loss.

Haymaking weather stopped in the 1960's apart from 1976 and the very occasional year with a hot fortnight at the right time of year.

This guy as around 20-000 small bales, not seen a bad one

 

[glasshouse]

Growing a 3t/ac hay crop @£100/t leaves far more profit than 3t of barley, only needs an old haybob, and grows where barley wont grow, its a no brainer.

 

[glasshouse]

This guy as around 20-000 small bales, not seen a bad one

looks like haylage.

 

[humblefarmer]

I started ploughing in chopped barley straw today.the chopper on a 30ft lexion only spreads ten feet and hell of a job to bury especially on soil that doesent score.
Nick...

Needs a straw rake - 11 acres and hr soon gets it done

 

[nick...]

I never seen one work but id imagine it would block up.seems to be the latest "must have" machine
Nick...

 

[andybk]

haymaking was easy back then before balers were invented,

and copious amounts of chemical fertilizer ,

 

[glasshouse]

I started ploughing in chopped barley straw today.the chopper on a 30ft lexion only spreads ten feet and hell of a job to bury especially on soil that doesent score.
Nick...

better with a 20ft header

 

[Henarar]

better with a 20ft header

better with a 10

 

[humblefarmer]

I never seen one work but id imagine it would block up.seems to be the latest "must have" machine
Nick...

So far so good, mixed some topsoil with the straw, planting cover crops tomorrow, let's see how it goes