What you’re saying is true enough, but it’s funny how you only ever hear it coming from the store vendors. Everyone above you in the chain would take what you have for nothing if they could, some of them would even try and convince you they were doing you a favour!
Up Horn/Down Corn
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ollie989898
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Flog the straw and get some muck back??
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
Wint be fllaf ar ton an acrenot much straw to be gathered from flat corn
Grew it last year for the first, best straw I’ve ever seen. Even a JD rotary didn’t smash it up at all!
You also know exactly what is in rolled corn unlike cake…
they tell you on the label though!
Hilly
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- Location
- Scottish Borders.
You have to be feeding a hell of a lot to make rolling / mixing your own worth while , i will be lucky if i use 50tons per year , its never worth the bother messing about especially when im on my own most time.
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
Dosen't affect straw yeild, its shorter but more thickness of the straw giving more weight.
I need straw, sold all mine
Bossfarmer
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- between Perth and Inverness
hows it so bad? malting barleys still well over £200/t, ferts near half of last years price, diesels dropped
Bossfarmer
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- between Perth and Inverness
nonsense, thats organic yields...try using some fert
prodct and timing?Early 1990s I can remember midland meat packer buyer(late D Darker) telling me he had a mate in Eastern counties selling bullocks for £1000 and putting £100 to it and buying an acre of ground with each one, I reckon that's when wheat hit the lows of £60 a tonYes , pretty sure it was in the 90,s. Bloke i used to work for who had built up his dairy from milking a handful of cows on a few acres and running a lorry to milking 140 cows and finishing everything on some 400 acres. He used to rub his hands with glee when the corn price was on the floor and say "About time they [ the Arable boys) caught a cold.
2 stringerslife changing ive put our's up £2 a bale
50 acres of spring oats in preference to beans here for that very reason,even after lasts years disastrous yield of feathers and thinking we would never want to grow them again
Devil's advocate
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- Posh side of Barnsley
feed barley here, feed mill only 4 miles away.
M-J-G
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Nobody is twisting our arm to keep livestock though
nails
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- East Dorset
Was there no snow in the Alps or something ?
nails
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- East Dorset
That is very true but i know with cattle it is very difficult to give up a herd you have bred even if some days they drive you nuts.