Hooch
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- Location
- cambridgeshire
Same as last year AF Bio
Straw Values
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The annual lunacy of the standing straw auctions starts next week here
www.symondsandsampson.co.uk
@gone up the hill may have an update on the Devon & Cornwall sales that have happened already
Agricultural & Collective Sales | Diary & Catalogues
Catalogues and information about agricultural and collective sales can be sourced from the Yeovil Office (01935) 382909.
www.symondsandsampson.co.uk
@gone up the hill may have an update on the Devon & Cornwall sales that have happened already
Steevo
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- Gloucestershire
The annual lunacy of the standing straw auctions starts next week here
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Agricultural & Collective Sales | Diary & Catalogues
Catalogues and information about agricultural and collective sales can be sourced from the Yeovil Office (01935) 382909.
@gone up the hill may have an update on the Devon & Cornwall sales that have happened already
Always does seem to be 1st July onwards for kick off.
Here they are booked in Monday 6th, Tues 7th, Wed 8th, Thursday 9th.
Gains and losses on straw sales tend to cancel out, over the years.
Real lunacy this time would be to bid for standing crops, which must be far more difficult to assess than they have been for several years past.
In 1975 we bought a considerable acreage yielding more than 40% less than was estimated, which hurt.
My excuse to my employers for this fiasco then was that we were buying the land concerned with completion in June and that the yields were all set by the vendor's greedy agents.
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Yes, the big advantage of the straw auction from the grower's point of view is that the auctioneer has to account for all the cash.
Selling privately, as we do, it's Caveat venditor.
we sell more than we use, but hate to think what it would cost if we were buying in but we do value the muck they leave behind!
- Location
- Suffolk
what price is a large heston bale at the moment then?
£45/bale delivered to small users.
gone up the hill
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- Devon
The annual lunacy of the standing straw auctions starts next week here
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Agricultural & Collective Sales | Diary & Catalogues
Catalogues and information about agricultural and collective sales can be sourced from the Yeovil Office (01935) 382909.
@gone up the hill may have an update on the Devon & Cornwall sales that have happened already
Yes @Brisel two sales have already taken place near to me!
One on farm which had some very poor crops and some decent ones, Best fields of Wheat £94/99 acre, worst fields in the £70's.
Collective auction, trade was on fire, barley between £101 and £119 acre and wheat £80/90 acre, oats upto £90 acre with most £50/70 acre, spring barley topped out at £68 acre for a thin crop on 48 acres.
Given less yield this year v last year I would say prices are up between 30/50% on the year.
The barley prices above indicate that if costed that will work out around £110/15 ton delivered on farm.
If anyone is intrested there is a large collective sale online this weekend ( ends 7pm Monday ) thou it should be noted that for the first time in history a buyers premium of 3% will be charged on the sale price )
We grow corn for the straw to sell to those lovely horses ladies normally worth 2 tonnes of grain to the acre
gone up the hill
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- Devon
And don't forget they have the second online straw auction tomorrow night.
Let's just hope that all the buyers have all done their due diligence.
We've got fields worth £140/acre and others only £40 but they all look very much the same from the road.
- Location
- South Molton
A sale i went to One field I walked wasn't as described in catalogue.
Only 2 of us at auction noticed! And the other wasnt the auctioneer!
- Location
- South Molton
Other chap said it was WW not WO. Vendor didnt know, I backed up chap and said its was wheat when I walked it.
gone up the hill
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- Devon
Well I assume bidding will kick off at some point soon because at the moment many lots have no bids and even the ones that do have bids most are a good £15/25 acre less than previous sales the last two weeks.
Really good fields of Wheat are only bid at £50/72 acre so far ( a couple at £80 ) and a cracking field of Winter barley only at £44 acre.
Some OSR is at £50 acre but that made daft money last year anyway.