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fieldfarmer
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Free delivery?
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- somerset
delivery is seriously going to add to price.Free delivery?
mrs was talking to a farmer, just had a lorry in, £1000, to fill up with fuel, no idea how many mpg a lorry does, but it isn't that many.
Its the same over here, buy fertilizer and get relieved of a lot of money
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- somerset
we won't know the effects of no/less fert, til the autumn.
but for many arable farms, the amount of fert, dictates final yield, with rainfall.
and that is a global conundrum.
get it to far wrong, people will starve to death, literally.
what's the answer ? No idea, but the politicians had better learn, very quickly, that they have to do 'something'.
On the news tuther night they are already starving cos of the war
Hells of crops i have seen being mowed on youtube out there.
They have been starving in some countries since time began but they keep buying weapons and breeding like rabbits. Ought to send them food laced with birth control medicine and put end to the cycle of starvation and misery once and for all.
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- somerset
just shows how finely things are balanced.
it really is quite scary, and politicians just seem to be sleepwalking into a disaster.
the only reason it don't happen here is cos we are rich
sticky
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- Location
- Near Stratford upon Avon
A 620 Volvo with a 2 deck/4deck trailer full and empty between 6.5-7 mpg.
A flat bed probably 12-14 but that’s a guess.
wellingtonfarmer
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- Location
- Herefordshire
What’s a fair price for wheat straw per tonne in swath?
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
The cost of fuel etc delivery will have no bearing on the delivered in straw price!
The price will simply come down to supply and demand ( especially the latter ) and just like we have seen the last few weeks with sky high fuel prices but wheat straw being delivered in at £85 ton!
Like other sectors of the industry ( sheep for example ) costs have gone sky high the last few months but the sheep price has been less or at best the same as last year the last few weeks and now is dropping like a stone in water due to less demand !
- Location
- somerset
dairy trade wasn't so hot, at exeter today. either.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
fieldfarmer
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You really are clutching at straws with that one trying to talk the price down.
Was it not you whinging how much your quad bike cost to fill up?.
- Location
- somerset
some dispersals
but the bulk came from some large block autumn calvers, they are really strict about keeping a tight block. Some good cows, they send down large consignments every year, and the cows are wanted, we have bought some over the years, its a better trade than the barren ring.
and kivells haven't got another dairy sale, at exeter, till end july. Bulking up sales like this, its almost a dispersal sale, in its own right. Should be a lot more to come from the 'east' yet, know of 1 farm, everything outside 42 day calving window, gets sold.
The theory is, if you only breed from cows, that hold to 1st service, fertility in the herd, just keeps improving, 10-15 yrs later...........
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Ha ha no it was not me moaning about the cost of filling up the quad bike.You really are clutching at straws with that one trying to talk the price down.
Was it not you whinging how much your quad bike cost to fill up?.
I am not trying to talk the price down and TBH i was very surprised the last few weeks that wheat straw is being delivered in for only £85 ton, like others i thought the fuel etc costs would have pushed prices up but that is not the case and will not be the case with straw delivered in off the field and it will all come down to supply and demand.
And given the amount of straw that has been moved recently then demand ex field delivered in could be well down on other years!
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
I would not put much faith in doing that and fertility will just keep improving for years on end!
Because in livestock farming something always comes up from nowhere at some point to derail your plans!