Bale wrap tax

Dave6170 · Jan 20, 2022

All very well recycling it, but its not good when it ends up in the sea in far east.

Y Fan Wen · Jan 20, 2022

devonbeef said:
Never enough of that, is your farm not like mine, held together with that.

And small bale string is worth its weight in gold. I am seriously thinking of 'buying!!' a reel!

Hesstondriver · Jan 20, 2022

Ffermer Bach said:
there must be some way of recycling big square bale string? Is there and I just don't know about it?

see quick fixes , bodges and creations thread for ideas

Northeastfarmer · Jan 20, 2022

hoff135 said:
Dropped a trailer load at recycling place a few days ago and it's going straight to landfill, thought it would have it's own pile but just in with the general waste.

With the likes of sky news going on about plastic waste all the time I'm surprised bale wrap has not been talked about more. Especially since some farmers use the wind to get rid of their wrap...

Drives me mad having to tip it into landfill for it to sit there for eternity…be miles better letting us burn it (legally )

Yale · Jan 20, 2022

Northeastfarmer said:
Drives me mad having to tip it into landfill for it to sit there for eternity…be miles better letting us burn it (legally )

…..carbon capture by default.

Northeastfarmer · Jan 20, 2022

Yale said:
…..carbon capture by default.

Yes

They may as well burn it in incinerators and get some energy off it

steveR · Jan 20, 2022

7610 super q said:
How did we manage pre 1985 ? We made pish poor hay. But at least those that did make good hay found it was actually worth something.
Paying to dispose of plastic as well as buying it put an end to covering early potatoes. No bad thing IMO.

Time to dig out the old Add-H mould suppressant....

An Gof · Jan 20, 2022

roscoe erf said:
good luck with the read

Thank you, fortunately all clear

do it all again in 6 months

Still Farming · Jan 20, 2022

Nearly said:
and our bonfires make less smoke?

But you got to have your plastic disposal tick for the Farm Assurance inspectors???

d williams · Jan 20, 2022

Wellytrack said:
Tax has been on wrap in ROI for some years now. Think it’s about €6/roll.

The manufacturer has been adding this for a while

Turnip · Jan 20, 2022

Mark C said:
It’s not just a tax on farmers. It’s across all industries for single use plastic with low amounts of recycled material in the product. It has been coming for a while. It’s just flipping annoying it’s coinciding with high prices.

slackjawedyokel said:
But we pay to have the bale wrap taken away and recycled into stokboard. It’s not single use so why a single use tax??

Its like @Mark C says, if there is a low percentage of recycled material in the wrap it will be taxed. Its not just about you recycling it into stokboard which I applaud you for.

slackjawedyokel · Jan 20, 2022

Turnip said:
Its like @Mark C says, if there is a low percentage of recycled material in the wrap it will be taxed. Its not just about you recycling it into stokboard which I applaud you for.

It feels like we pay for it three times already. We pay for the rolls of wrap. We carefully place the clean (as possible) wrappers into a big bin liner (which we also buy) and pay to send it off to Solway Recycling. Then we buy it back again as Stokboard (which incidentally is my new favourite product, having recently replaced the plywood in a sheep weigh crate with stokboard).

betweenthelines · Jan 20, 2022

Just make bigger bales/chop everything/wilt a bit more.

Daft making 4'6" bales at 25% DM anyway.

Still Farming · Jan 20, 2022

betweenthelines said:
Just make bigger bales/chop everything/wilt a bit more.

Daft making 4'6" bales at 25% DM anyway.

Or make Hay!

betweenthelines · Jan 20, 2022

Still Farming said:
Or make Hay!

Be easy to make hay in the future.

Global Warming isn't all bad.

Sid · Jan 27, 2022

Silage wrap is exempt according to information I have received in a letter to MB of the NFU from HM treasury

devonbeef · Jan 27, 2022

Sid said:
Silage wrap is exempt according to information I have received in a letter to MB of the NFU from HM treasury

so only oil reason to put the price up,They can,t use tax excuse too.

An Gof · Jan 27, 2022

Well done NFU

View attachment XST response to NFU27.pdf

Wellytrack · Jan 27, 2022

An Gof said:
Well done NFU
View attachment 1012855

Sounds fairly flimsy defence tbh, after all grass silage will ferment without packaging although it may not be the one most desirable.

An Gof · Jan 27, 2022

Wellytrack said:
Sounds fairly flimsy defence tbh, after all grass silage will ferment without packaging although it may not be the one most desirable.

Just rejoice at the news

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100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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