- Location
- Lincolnshire
It’s the sort of Christmas where you have to wrestle the presents off Santa. It’s never done till the money is in the bank.
Early Christmas for arable producers?
- Thread starter Widgetone
- Start date
Pleased I have plenty of glyphosate and all of next years fert requirement on farm already
- Location
- Lincolnshire
As I said to my agronomist, the fastest way to create a shortage is tell everybody there is going to be a shortage.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
How long before you arable lads tell (again) all the livestock farmers that they really shouldn't need subsidy to make a living out of farming....
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
ive been hearing many are having lower SB yields than last year
Don’t worry bleating livestock farmers will soon be along wanting charity and crash the straw market!
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
I bleeding well hope not! We averaged about a ton & half per acre back in the shed, with probably another half a ton left in the ears on the floor.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
It will be a decidedly average harvest here. Lots of spring barley this year. Doing 2t per acre average, not 3 that we had in the first good piece. Wheat not combined yet but won’t break any records. Beet looks well but it’s capped by the quota.
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
Lets not get carried away yet! It depends on how well you've sold it. I started sellling when it was £160 a year ago. Still got 50% (at current yields) to go, but that is just for the wheat.
Also we need to get our rose tints off and look at this in the long run.
Av wheat price for the first few years I was here;
2008 £130
2009 £105
2010 £132
2011 £150
2012 £188
With the costs of inputs, machinery and labour are we any better off than we were in 2008?
Also we need to get our rose tints off and look at this in the long run.
Av wheat price for the first few years I was here;
2008 £130
2009 £105
2010 £132
2011 £150
2012 £188
With the costs of inputs, machinery and labour are we any better off than we were in 2008?
- Location
- Perthshire (It's a big place!)
High prices cure high prices
Bossfarmer
Member
- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
What do you thinks the reason for the SB being back in yield?
- Location
- Shropshire
That has brightened up my day. All I seem to hear about are great yields while ours are 15% down on what we have done so far. Still have not got the Extase...
Just not enough sunshine in May and poor tiller numbers following the cold spring.
even in a year of decent price and yield the reward is not enough given the risk and capital requirement
I’m inclined to take less risk the older i get so unless rewards improve significantly / consistently I’m inclined to farm less
Farming for fun is a very young mans pastime!
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Return on tenants capital could be very good this year. Return on owners capital is still quite poor. So depends how you look at it.
SilliamWhale
Member
So what are people doing? Selling into this current market or holding back for more?
If you had a shed full of unpriced feed wheat and barley would you be holding til the new year or beyond?
If you had a shed full of unpriced feed wheat and barley would you be holding til the new year or beyond?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Holding.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Surely price pressure can only be upwards? Not a great prospect for any livestock farmers running high concentrate systems.
SilliamWhale
Member
Surely price pressure can only be upwards? Not a great prospect for any livestock farmers running high concentrate systems.
Talk of a lot of spare fund money driving it up