How many head are you feeding?That’s where’s lot of the multi cut guys pay on tonnage and not on acreage. Better quality and easier on machines and quicker to cover ground.
Had 11 acre closed up for 58 days, usually 8/9 bale/acre but managed 36 bales this year
Thankfully a lot of lambs gone, Rain has come and won’t go away and grass is bulking now, hopefully get to 100 bales sometime. Fed 50-60 this April/May mind which was more than all winter :/
Still got 3/4 of my straw requirement for next winter in the shed, Spring crops are 30-40” tall and looking well now, promised my neighbour any straw he needs and I’ll store it until Christmas for him too
Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
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- West Wales
1300 ewes/ewe lambs
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- Location
- Devon
FIL, and plenty others, operate by the hour down here. Seems fairer to me when you've got multi cut dairy boys, and single, heavy cut beef ones on your patchThat’s where’s lot of the multi cut guys pay on tonnage and not on acreage. Better quality and easier on machines and quicker to cover ground.
Had 11 acre closed up for 58 days, usually 8/9 bale/acre but managed 36 bales this year
Thankfully a lot of lambs gone, Rain has come and won’t go away and grass is bulking now, hopefully get to 100 bales sometime. Fed 50-60 this April/May mind which was more than all winter :/
Still got 3/4 of my straw requirement for next winter in the shed, Spring crops are 30-40” tall and looking well now, promised my neighbour any straw he needs and I’ll store it until Christmas for him too
- Location
- somerset
farmers compare prices about, cost/acre 1st, or 2nd cut, and a general figure emerges, but that doesn't take into consideration, yield, or 'multicut', so the 'quoted' charge/acre, is very misleading, and, from a contractors view, the lighter cuts, have to balance the heavier ones. You can imagine the complaints, if, 'you only charged x so much for 1st cut, yet you billed me y amount more, per acre', contractors have a hard enough job now, without more hassle.
- Location
- Devon
But from a farmers pov, why should my heavy cut be balanced by the dairy farmers light cut?
By the hour fairer imo. Also encourages the farmer to be better organised, clear his fields of potential metal stoppages, widen his gateways etc, so better for contractor too.
- Location
- somerset
minefield, the system has traditionally been per acre, but things have changed, our chap splits, depending on no of trailors, etc, By the tonne, weighbridge, dm of grass, multicut v heavy cut, time taken to pay, for multi cut, more exact timing, etc. All has to be chucked into the equation, and every farmer, reckons it to dear.!
- Location
- Ceredigion
Well we loading New Crop today .
ITS LIKE THE Curate's egg
Some say Crops are good some say bad . I must say looking around East Sussex they dont look bad at all [emoji57]
ITS LIKE THE Curate's egg
Some say Crops are good some say bad . I must say looking around East Sussex they dont look bad at all [emoji57]
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- Location
- Ceredigion
I would not have a clue in your area sorry . We travel a long way . One who's baling next week as suggested £10 up on last year
- Location
- Ceredigion
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Nice straw
- Location
- South Molton
- Location
- South Molton
i made an offer
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Barley will be £90t+ down here, more than likely up/down £100t by a fiver delivered in ex field.
Can somebody clarify please:
Farmer bales, stacks and loads and gets £50/tonne. His costs are probably in the region of £15/t assuming 500kg weight bales so net £35/t and then has to account for the lost OM and nutrients.
Buyer is paying £90/tonne delivered.
So the merchant is creaming £40/tonne for haulage. Assuming a 19t load (38 hestons) he’s getting £760 and will do two loads a day or picking straw up as a backload.
Glad we’ve sold privately at £70/ac with no costs other than the lost OM and nutrients leaving the field.
Farmer bales, stacks and loads and gets £50/tonne. His costs are probably in the region of £15/t assuming 500kg weight bales so net £35/t and then has to account for the lost OM and nutrients.
Buyer is paying £90/tonne delivered.
So the merchant is creaming £40/tonne for haulage. Assuming a 19t load (38 hestons) he’s getting £760 and will do two loads a day or picking straw up as a backload.
Glad we’ve sold privately at £70/ac with no costs other than the lost OM and nutrients leaving the field.
- Location
- South Molton
I made @Derrick Hughes an offer.
Spencer
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- Location
- North West