Look upIt is for those who forward sold a % of crop and sell their straw standing by the look of it!
Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Cheshire
- Location
- South Molton
Yep but as above if I cost myself at the same price as for contracting then really its over pricing the job as I do make a quid or two from contracting,
So that hay was cheaper still
Should.
But don't forget that you could actually be doing something more profitable for your business rather than humping straw around or the fact you could have a breakdown and have to pay a contractor.
Oh by the way, I only costed this without a margin on the job so can you do it cheaper?
fieldfarmer
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But remember it just a bi product so it's all profit really. £100 - £140 acre, what's not to like
- Location
- Ceredigion
I don't know but I expect farmers buy in the row for their own personal reasons and costs it's down the list a fair bit
It can make straw dearer for others though if they get carried away same as winter bale auction s, after Stow auction in November most put their straw up £30ton , that's just an observation not a moan , I'm used to it
It can make straw dearer for others though if they get carried away same as winter bale auction s, after Stow auction in November most put their straw up £30ton , that's just an observation not a moan , I'm used to it
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Skintagain
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- Location
- Perched on the Pennines
Farmers buy straw in swath because it’s a Second obsession after grass gambling
gone up the hill
Member
- Location
- Devon
The farmers who seem to be driving trade so high this year at sales around here ( and certainly the one i posted prices on last night ) are farmers that have never bought standing straw before but have in the past always bought it off the lorry as and when they needed it.
So i guess having to pay £150 ton for it the past winter they have decided they wont be caught out again and instead will buy if off the field.
Ref costs for haulage etc for standing straw, you cannot run a tractor and trailer for less than £20 hour if you do it yourself and time soon racks up if you are going many miles hauling straw and do not forget it is not only the time on the road but loading and strapping down correctly.
So i guess having to pay £150 ton for it the past winter they have decided they wont be caught out again and instead will buy if off the field.
Ref costs for haulage etc for standing straw, you cannot run a tractor and trailer for less than £20 hour if you do it yourself and time soon racks up if you are going many miles hauling straw and do not forget it is not only the time on the road but loading and strapping down correctly.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
GTH first sale of standing straw is tomorrow night ( Monday ) about 2200 acres entered and i think it is is also on mart eye if anyone wants to follow the trade.
- Location
- somerset
- Location
- Hereford
- Location
- Hereford
...and hauling straw home is part of my farming life....just like worming cattle or foot rotting sheep ......I could easily say "I will get a contractor to do that so I could be doing something else on the farm "
Where do you draw the line between doing it yourself and paying a contractor ?
d williams
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Not enough net over 9000 bales had cost 43 p per bale fuel baler depreciation will be a pound per bale tractor costs service and repairs then labour
- Location
- South Molton
It's easier to find a contractor than someone to worm cattle etc.
But then I've seen contractors hauling bales 14 at a time.
Now that becomes expensive when they charging £35/hr with a 2 hour round trip!
Adds £25/t.
Have to look at each individual job at the time tbh
- Location
- Bourne, Lincolnshire
Afternoon, just to clarify this is nothing to do with Agri-Linc Ltd, Lincolnshire or the Whyles family members. We have no involvement with any contracting or the sale of hay and straw ourselves.
Regards
Arron | Agri-linc Ltd
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Don't worry I know how to price my time but I don't strap the bales down
- Location
- Ceredigion
He's thinking per ton is he not
fieldfarmer
Member
Don't know what he's thinking but he will be buying per acre, so if it does more tons per £ spent it will be cheaper.
- Location
- Ceredigion
A big bullock makes more than a small one , it will cost more per acre so same place