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Sounds expensive can get it delivered in for £95 a ton

Haven’t quite managed that, but phoned around again today. £30 / tonne down delivered in. Best I can do now is £100.
That’s lorry and drag of wheat straw.

So, do I buy or stick it out???

@GB1 would you pm me your supplier? I couldn’t get below £100. Same area, good roads, North Cornwall.
 
So this year, you’ve baled all your straw dry (as everyone has) if I came to your farm now and offered to pay you £50/T for every bale you’ve got....would you sell me it?
Sorry not a chance, have kept about 350 ton for my own use and sold all the rest for £100 per ton or above (barley)x farm, still chopped where the dirt required it.
 
Location
Devon
Sorry not a chance, have kept about 350 ton for my own use and sold all the rest for £100 per ton or above (barley)x farm, still chopped where the dirt required it.

The thing is fieldfarmer is based in Mid Devon I believe Northeastfarmer, without a shadow of a doubt this area is one of the worst affected drought areas in the UK at this time, most cattle farms are well short of feed stocks going into the winter ( let alone grazing today ) with many farms already having nearly used up all their silage and we are only in August so its not surprising he/ she can command high prices for straw that no doubt has been baled dry and is feed quality regardless of it being wheat/ barley etc and that is worth a few ££ a ton v bought in straw that may well be only good for bedding even if it has been bought for feeding.

Local prices for delivered in straw seems to be £95/110t currently.
 

Derrick Hughes

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Location
Ceredigion
The thing is fieldfarmer is based in Mid Devon I believe Northeastfarmer, without a shadow of a doubt this area is one of the worst affected drought areas in the UK at this time, most cattle farms are well short of feed stocks going into the winter ( let alone grazing today ) with many farms already having nearly used up all their silage and we are only in August so its not surprising he/ she can command high prices for straw that no doubt has been baled dry and is feed quality regardless of it being wheat/ barley etc and that is worth a few ££ a ton v bought in straw that may well be only good for bedding even if it has been bought for feeding.

Local prices for delivered in straw seems to be £95/110t currently.
If feed barley grain was £150 delivered what would feed barley grain be worth 10 miles up the road collected
 
Location
Cleveland
Ring up a tractor dealer and get a price for one tractor, then tell them you would will buy twenty, will the price go up or down?
What’s that got to do with the power stations? If they buy all the straw in the country they are buying it off thousands of farmers....so if i came to your farm and offered to buy every bale you have for the same price as they’re offering then why is my money any different
 

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