- Location
- Shropshire
That’s not your problem that’s the auctioneers problem they should pay you within 28 days of the hammer falling
Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Hereford
I suppose they have taken the straw .....otherwise lock the gate
fieldfarmer
Member
Have you let the straw leave yet? Invoice the auctioneers using the same interest terms they would for you., I can see this not ending well.
- Location
- Hereford
Or ring the purchaser up and ask why they haven't paid 
- Location
- Hereford
Change auctioneers next yr . That will sharpen them up !
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Got plenty of straw elsewhere that's why I sold it standing
here .Auctioneer is now being more proactive after a friendly
phone call.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Probably stick to usual policy of
selling it myself or chopping before such a painful event.
puntabrava
Member
- Location
- Wiltshire
I think it was a certain con man that advertised in FW also looking for mugs, rumour has it they slit the throat of some farmer up your way?
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
auctioneers stopped taking bids at straw sales from them around here apparently.
I heard there had been threats of violence and some farmers had sent the money back not wanting them on the farm. I couldnt understand why the auctioneers entertained them tbh, yes they drove the prices up but they also alienated the farmers who usually come back year after year for straw.
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With the way straw prices went last winter a lot of opportunists have jumped on the bandwagon ,it is very definitely a case of seller beware. Is it really worth getting a headline price if you never get paid.
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Straw is hardly a claas A drug worth killing for.
I wouldn’t sell there again then
Scholsey
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
I'd be asking for the commission back from the auctioneers for all the straw sold at the auction even that without any hassle, at the end of the day they took the bids from what looks to be a bunch of gangsters!
- Location
- Hereford
They have been back to a couple of farms demanding money back saying the straw was no good and threatening to burn the farms down if they aren't paid by bacs within 12 hrs . I know of a least one who gave into them and refunded half the money. Its a ' heavy gang' from the Midlands who turned up on the 2 farms i know about . The bank account was registered in Dubai !
Farmer ought to have given them some 12 bore action, its like living in the wildwest with rubbish like this going on.
Covid has knocked the drugs trade so they are diversifying
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
This straw selling is turning into a agricultural version of the film 'layer cake'.
I want to know who's going to star as Jimmy Price and Eddie Temple .
Will we find Puntabrava hiding in a basket at the top of his cherry picker and
Derrick incognito amongst a group of lycra clad cyclists.
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