N prices end UK milling wheat production?
- Thread starter Clive
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More likely milling varieties doing half a ton less than feed varieties, combined with high base prices.
I toyed with going back to milling wheats but will stick with feed, especially once the vivergo effect gets going.
Currently getting a few extra pennies for gp4 hards, that comprehensibly out yielded gp3 softs. Full spec softs £6/t extra. Waste of time.
I toyed with going back to milling wheats but will stick with feed, especially once the vivergo effect gets going.
Currently getting a few extra pennies for gp4 hards, that comprehensibly out yielded gp3 softs. Full spec softs £6/t extra. Waste of time.
takes us at least 40-60kgs more N to get protein and millers rarely yield quite so well as a group 4
Crops don’t always make quality so you would need to factor maybe 1 ot 2 years in 5 where the extra N doesn’t increase gross output ?
plus lower yields and 1 or 2 extra passes through the crop with applications
all for £10-20 premium
we will export - price is global not local plus it’s increasingly going into fuels etc
i don’t see feed wheat having no market anytime soon !
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- Lincolnshire
50kg N to get a miller to 13 percent. Or use that n to get an extra 2t/ha from a feed. About. Subject to weather etc.
yep - so whose going to carry on growing miller’s in the uk at current premium ?
Well you have told us of far bigger premiums in the past? And your total N is how much 250kg/ha????
E wheat we grew were as much as £45 premium the first couple of seasons we grew but that’s reduced as supply increased - comes at a significant yields penalty and to get 15% protein on them you need 300kgs of N !
180kgs on feed 220-240 on a regular miller and 300 on a e - wheat 15% miller
yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
i gave up milling 20 yers ago wetter harvest and hagburg risk too high
now with high n price and weather risk the only advantage milling varieties is is that they are generally earlier
so grow them with out the extra n for earlier harvest
I now grow clad 3 wheat lower protein required
the uk climate is also best suited to soft milling wheat for biscuit cakes and brewing
and this will export out or the southern half of the country
9 % or uk wheat in the ground is class 3
now with high n price and weather risk the only advantage milling varieties is is that they are generally earlier
so grow them with out the extra n for earlier harvest
I now grow clad 3 wheat lower protein required
the uk climate is also best suited to soft milling wheat for biscuit cakes and brewing
and this will export out or the southern half of the country
9 % or uk wheat in the ground is class 3
its doesn’t, but it paid bills, i stopped our growing ewheat area when premiums reduced
viable for a £20 premium over feeds?
Well for us it’s going there anyway so yes, pays for storage and a little extra
Classic attempt to corner the market!