Hay/Haylage Price.

Skimmer

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
North Notts
With input prices rising like they a 50 % increase will struggle to cover costs and on arable land wheat is looking a lot better option than grass for livery's. what will horse owners be able to afford.
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
With input prices rising like they a 50 % increase will struggle to cover costs and on arable land wheat is looking a lot better option than grass for livery's. what will horse owners be able to afford.
I've cut down grass acreage , wheat looking a better option this year
 

homefarm

Member
Location
N.West
It is a good question not one that can be answered.

We have customers I have no idea how they find the money now but they always seem too.
Others have plenty of money but will disappear owing us.

I can see horse numbers declining but only slowly as one of our customers demonstrated when her pony finally died
She was 34 and never remembered a day without the horse it was her 4th birthday present.
She was never going to sell it or have it put down, people like her will find the money for hay.

Today's four year olds may not be given a horse though.
 
Location
Devon
I've said all along this is a econimic war against the West from Putin ,

Dunna worry though I'm covered for this year (y)
Yes but a lot of Ukraine land will take years to be planted again due to the damage/spent/ unexploded bombs etc all over it and Russian farmers cannot get any spare parts etc so the west may well have to do a Post war German ww11 airlift type like what happened of wheat/Spuds etc to Russia next winter to stop them all from starving to death!
 
Location
Devon
What with the russkiess on the warpath!! I foresee very little wheat seeing open water from Ukraine
Yep i agree with you but Frank seems convinced that will not be the case.

And even if they do manage to sell a lot of wheat onto the open market it may pull prices a bit but that drop will be eaten up with much higher energy and haulage costs by next winter!
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
The horsey folks will be fine. Without fail, every year, there's someone flogging round bale hay on the local FB page for £10-15 / bale. Hay making is a quaint hobby for a lot of folks with bit of land.
 

bobk

Member
Location
stafford
Frank sounds a bit clueless.....
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puntabrava

Member
Location
Wiltshire
Yes but a lot of Ukraine land will take years to be planted again due to the damage/spent/ unexploded bombs etc all over it and Russian farmers cannot get any spare parts etc so the west may well have to do a Post war German ww11 airlift type like what happened of wheat/Spuds etc to Russia next winter to stop them all from starving to death!
I wonder how this lot are fairing, are John Deere breaking US sanctions? Got to be all sorts of pressure being applied.
 

Estate fencing.

Member
Livestock Farmer
Wheat prices had already started rising before all this kicked off world stocks are running tight. Bet politicians regret not having grain mountains now.
The Canadian harvest was a disaster, I did see that some massive farm planted more than they harvested and they still haven’t had any moisture.
 

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