- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Use a friends phone and order the same valve as your owed. Get it delivered then tell him to not come back. At the least you’ll pee him off and the best you’ve your straw back.
Getting paid for straw ?
- Thread starter Clive
- Start date
- Location
- Cheshire
It’s a way too a thick ear in mine!!
- Location
- Lorette Manitoba
Sell the invoice to a debt collector. Here it’s common that a legitimate invoice with enough physical evidence can be sold onto a specialized debt collector. A skinny scrorny Eastern European 65 year old with a couple of meatheads with attitude problems and single digit IQs.
kiwi pom
Member
- Location
- canterbury NZ
I suspect Clive is perfectly capable of sorting out a straw debt. This thread is more about having a pop at livestock farmers and straw merchants I think.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Winter auctions are part of the problem
Last year it was £50 to dear this year it's a good £20 to cheap , if it was left to private sellers these peaks and troughs would be smoothed out a little
Last year it was £50 to dear this year it's a good £20 to cheap , if it was left to private sellers these peaks and troughs would be smoothed out a little
I don’t know any livestock farmers that let their store lambs go at the same price every year to even out the bumps, and we certainly don’t let our wheat go at anything other than the market price . It is what it is with straw , an up and down market based on supply and demand .
- Location
- Ceredigion
The power stations work like that , suppliers know were they stand year on year , if straw had not been rediculasly dear last winter then less would have been baled and price would have been better this year , what will sellers base their price on when choosing to bale this harvest, no doubt some who can't sell ATM will chop ,
Demand don't alter much ,
The other point being you dont have another use for you lambs , which arable farmers do , as firtilizer and organic matter
Put another way , if @ Clive was offered a fair price over five years they both agreed on and the guy paid up front no hassle , would he prefer that or play around with auctions with no idea what he's going to get
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- Location
- sw scotland
I have a friend who is a retired feed merchant. Lots of stories chasing payment from farmers. One place he went with the salesman to try to get payment to find a new Mercedes and MF tractor in the yard. He told them he would be back with a solicitor to seize a vehicle and the cheque came next day.
Some sheep farmers pay for the clipping when they turn up the next year.
I used to have 2 contractors who would save up all the jobs and send a bill about a year after the work. Must have been a nightmare for their accountant and one fell foul of the VAT inspector
Some sheep farmers pay for the clipping when they turn up the next year.
I used to have 2 contractors who would save up all the jobs and send a bill about a year after the work. Must have been a nightmare for their accountant and one fell foul of the VAT inspector
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Some round bale straw in this area has been selling ok at auction.
Not so much demand for the big squares lots unsold.
People seem to like round again.
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- Location
- Ceredigion
Think the Hereford auction s did ok , it's the far away ones that are struggling, barley is selling ok mind , no one seems to want wheat
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Phone the man and cut the price in half if he pays now
Why give profit to meathead debt collectors
Every man and his dog jumped in this yr
Why give profit to meathead debt collectors
Every man and his dog jumped in this yr
d williams
Member
Would that be more down to the cost of transport?? Getting expensive now to move anything
- Location
- Ceredigion
I suppose yes but when wheat is trading at just over £45 ex on the borders they won't be running to Cambridge to pay the same
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
They need to be chopping it around Cambridge as they haven't
got the numbers of livestock.
- Location
- Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk
I'm a peasant suckler cow keeper and am always grateful that my neighbour looks after me with a few bright round bales of spring barley
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
d williams
Member
Surly east of Oxford should be going into the burners
icanshootwell
Member
- Location
- Ross-on-wye
Does any body remember mystic meg, I,m sure if clive had looked in his crystal ball last year and foreseen the fertilizer price hike, he would have chopped all his straw and left the p & k in the field. It,s a double whammy now, last years straw prices were ok but not great, when you don,t get paid as well, it,s a long day in a leaky welly. Plus his fertilizer has just turned up and needs paying for, but at least there,s room in the shed now the straw,s gone.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Would not be enough then and it's to dear to haul in Herefordshire in normal years
- Location
- Cumbria
Maybe your straw buyer is waiting for a rebate and will pay you next week....