- Location
- South Molton
As you said you haven't covered rental equivalent Either
Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
Devil's advocate
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- Location
- Posh side of Barnsley
Yes & half of it owned but still included a low rent.
- Location
- North of Perth
- Location
- Yorkshire
Not written very well but I took it that he ment £12 bale fert that was quoted + £3 + £2 + £3 per bale = £20
Mowing £3 per bale x 8 bales acre = £24
- Location
- Ceredigion
I suppose not , but if you have a year on year supplier of straw then and hay then you want and need him to make a profit or he will stop supplying you
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
If you put fert on and get 8 bales an acre then at current Fert and talked about bale wrap prices if you cost the job like you were using contractors to do all the work then a roundbale this season of silage will be around £24 ish a bale excluding any grass keep/ rental value!
Suckler cow will eat what 10/12 bales a winter so £288 just in silage costs per cow alone!
Suckler cow will eat what 10/12 bales a winter so £288 just in silage costs per cow alone!
Agreed but if your buying at auctions and margins are tight your going to try and nick it
Which is another reason why less beef cows will be kept . A dairy bred weanling /store will eat half that and show the same profit margin
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Just had a look through the Sunderland catalogue and
some lots it looks like you load it yourself .
Hope some of the dealers have good hiabs !
some lots it looks like you load it yourself .
Hope some of the dealers have good hiabs !
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
2/4rds of the dairy calves i saw sold today will not cover their purchase/ rearing costs when killed as fat cattle let alone show a profit as the quality of these calves is so bad!
I actually think suckler cow numbers will rebound in the next few years!
- Location
- Cheshire
Even if margins aren’t tight, I want all the inputs as low as I can get them! The wider the margin, the more for me
- Location
- Cheshire
Eh? Anything with Holstein in it will eat and eat and eat… I’d rather put the feed into a 3/4 beef bred. At least you will get some beef for the feed.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Can we put your name down for the one off design place mats and coasters ?
- Location
- Cheshire
Not those horrible wooden things from the other day?!
Not unless we can bid him in the bôllocks for’em
- Location
- somerset
perhaps dairy farmers ought to use better AI bulls, not the cheapest in the list.
- Location
- Cheshire
Trouble is, and it’s got worse since sexed semen became so popular, the best dairy bulls aren’t good shaped animals. So they use lots of that semen too get the heifers and the 1 or 2 out of 10 that come bulls don’t really matter. I fully agree with you, but if I were a dairy man I can’t say I’d do much differently…
- Location
- Hereford
What about these then .Not those horrible wooden things from the other day?!
£110 a set .
Son in law makes them and sells loads of them !