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gone up the hill · Nov 18, 2017

Headline should read @Henarar

STRAW TRADE COLLAPSE'S ...

Many lots were unsold and some lots of Wheat were bid to £75t and unsold.....

Been a lot of hype about straw prices recently, quite clear the bubble has burst!

Dealers are quoting £140t delivered in for Barley straw, today about the only lot of Barley sold was £120t with the other loads unsold......

Henarar · Nov 18, 2017

I wouldn't say collapsed rather there wasn't much trade
buyers obviously didn't think it was worth as much as the sellers wanted for it
who will come unstuck remains to be seen

7610 super q · Nov 18, 2017

Will we see straw lorries heading back up the M5 in the other direction ?

gone up the hill · Nov 18, 2017

Henarar said:
I wouldn't say collapsed rather there wasn't much trade
buyers obviously didn't think it was worth as much as the sellers wanted for it
who will come unstuck remains to be seen

When you have an auction and you don't get anywhere near the reserves and even when you do get bids and they are only £75t when everyone else is in the media/online is quoting £100t+ then trade has collapsed.

If it was a fast/ mental trade as some predicted it would be then prices would have been far higher than the reserves set and all lots would have been sold.

( talking about straw here )

bobk · Nov 18, 2017

gone up the hill said:
Headline should read @Henarar

STRAW TRADE COLLAPSE'S ...

Many lots were unsold and some lots of Wheat were bid to £75t and unsold.....

Been a lot of hype about straw prices recently, quite clear the bubble has burst!

Dealers are quoting £140t delivered in for Barley straw, today about the only lot of Barley sold was £120t with the other loads unsold......

Should read Farmers trying to steal straw ...

gone up the hill · Nov 18, 2017

7610 super q said:
Will we see straw lorries heading back up the M5 in the other direction ?

Nooooooooooooooooooooo..... We want even more straw lorry's to head this way and push trade even lower

Henarar · Nov 18, 2017

7610 super q said:
Will we see straw lorries heading back up the M5 in the other direction ?

it didn't seem a mad clamour to buy, bids were slow, auctioneer was working hard, hardly a fast trade with farmers wanting to go home with something to bed their animals with
as I said time will tell
as I said on another thread I wonder if there is enough to go round if it was all in the hands of those that need it ? I wouldn't like to say

roscoe erf · Nov 18, 2017

bobk said:
Should read Farmers trying to steal straw ...

or paying what its worth

Henarar · Nov 18, 2017

bobk said:
Should read Farmers trying to steal straw ...

well you can't get much more open than at auction, hardly turning up at night with a trailer and a torch is it ?
the reserves in the main were more than folk would pay
time will tell

bobk · Nov 18, 2017

Henarar said:
well you can't get much more open than at auction, hardly turning up at night with a trailer and a torch is it ?
the reserves in the main were more than folk would pay
time will tell

I'll bet the loads all found a home though .

Henarar · Nov 18, 2017

silage/hayledge at sedge today

as far as I could tell [it was a job to hear] one lot sold out of 10 and that was 6 strings that made 16 quid

Henarar · Nov 18, 2017

bobk said:
I'll bet the loads all found a home though .

two loads that were in the market didn't sell
they would have had somewhere to take it if it didn't sell anyway I should think

7610 super q · Nov 18, 2017

Just depends on the winter. My sheds were full at the end of March 2015. I was panicking. Then during April demand rocketed.

bobk · Nov 18, 2017

Henarar said:
two loads that were in the market didn't sell
they would have had somewhere to take it if it didn't sell anyway I should think

Half the loads at Chelford never sold , dealers don't like 6% commission .

Derrick Hughes · Nov 18, 2017

it's scandalous the way the price of straw has been talked up

7610 super q · Nov 18, 2017

Forage Trader said:
it's scandalous the way the price of straw has been talked up

No sympathy. Folks were trying to talk it down at harvest. It backfired.

Henarar · Nov 18, 2017

7610 super q said:
No sympathy. Folks were trying to talk it down at harvest. It backfired.

may backfire again yet in more ways than one, and as you say no sympathy

Henarar · Nov 18, 2017

I think it will all depend on the winter, if it comes in wet and everything has to be housed demand will be different to if we have a winter like last and folk can keep things out

Derrick Hughes · Nov 18, 2017

7610 super q said:
No sympathy. Folks were trying to talk it down at harvest. It backfired.

price at harvest started tidy .£10 up on last year .

Derrick Hughes · Nov 18, 2017

Henarar said:
I think it will all depend on the winter, if it comes in wet and everything has to be housed demand will be different to if we have a winter like last and folk can keep things out

a month ago all i heard was panic on the phone will we get our straw .one way or another farmers are making do unless they really need straw .panic has died down In this are anyhow

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