"We aint gonna pay no toll"
Straw market analysis.
- Thread starter An Gof
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you would hope so but it seems to be one rule for us and a different bugger for everyone elseIt won't happen. If 3 Sisters can pick chicken meat off the floor and re use it whilst still having the RT logo on their products then we should be ok using any straw for bedding the floor...
Straw in all its forms is a p.i.t.a. - chopped its causes issues with slugs and drilling, rowed you cant get on with liming of sludge spreading or OSR drilling, baled they are in the way waiting to be collected, stacked in a gateway for export and get set alight!
In Kent the going rate is a dizzy 1 pence per kilogram (£10/t), to get a crop of wheat to yield 2t/acre of baled straw its probably going to be 4t/acre of wheat. Income for farmer £20/acre of straw (if they get paid) + £500+/acre of wheat sales. Cant be too difficult to understand an arable farmers way of thinking on the matter?
In Kent the going rate is a dizzy 1 pence per kilogram (£10/t), to get a crop of wheat to yield 2t/acre of baled straw its probably going to be 4t/acre of wheat. Income for farmer £20/acre of straw (if they get paid) + £500+/acre of wheat sales. Cant be too difficult to understand an arable farmers way of thinking on the matter?
- Location
- Ceredigion
If you baled your own you would get £65 ton most years
If that's what straw is making in Cornwall think I need to sell my cattle this winter, sell the straws s enjoy the break
Even if you sell the cattle I don't think you will be able to take a break.... you will still be drilling/spraying this winter!!!!!!!
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
over £100/t for something that a beast just sh!ts on...madness
They’ll be no future for cattle and sheep at those prices unless prices go up significantly
They’ll be no future for cattle and sheep at those prices unless prices go up significantly
I take it from that that you are also struggling to get crops in. If it's difficult your way it's nigh on impossible here. Only 60 acres of cereals drilled so far
Still know of cereals to cut and straw to bale within immediate area.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
And still load after load of straw keep on coming to the Westcountry...
Seen 8/10 artic loads alone today on the M5/A303.
Seen 8/10 artic loads alone today on the M5/A303.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
I take it from that that you are also struggling to get crops in. If it's difficult your way it's nigh on impossible here. Only 60 acres of cereals drilled so far
Plenty on drilling corn yesterday/today.
What are they waiting for to cut that corn?
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
If you bale it you will make a lot more than that.
A very large straw dealer hauls 1000s of tons of straw from Kent to the Westcountry every harvest.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Much cheaper alternatives.
ollie989898
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I take it from that that you are also struggling to get crops in. If it's difficult your way it's nigh on impossible here. Only 60 acres of cereals drilled so far
4course
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- Location
- north yorks
what about little bales hard work but double your money currently selling 15kg at£3 each or 2.50 each for 4 someone on here said straw is worth as much as grain its not far off, taken with the grain certainly lifts output/acre just dont have the shed space or labour or time to do more, of all the ways to increase output its easier than trying to cut corners/costs im thinking
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
£10/t?
Surely not?
Are you ever at home farming, as you seem to know exactly what vehicles are going up and down the motorway all day.
Might be. used to be that sort of money here before they built the power stations and kent is a long way from both the power station and the livestock.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
kent is closest to export market
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Are you ever at home farming, as you seem to know exactly what vehicles are going up and down the motorway all day.
Well organized
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon