Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

gone up the hill said:

Ha ha no it was not me moaning about the cost of filling up the quad bike.

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!

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gone up the hill said:

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!

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som farmer said:

delivery is seriously going to add to price.
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.

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gone up the hill said:

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 !

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Northern territory said:

Drove over skipton way yesterday to a wedding and very little grass about, especially grazing. Always a rich grass area around there.

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roscoe erf said:

what utter tosh

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Hfd Cattle said:

I'm glad someone else thinks that ..... I was struggling to believe that a haulage would've not had a bearing on delivered fodder .
I sent a load off on Thurs and the driver said it was costing £3 a bale more for delivery now than he charged in March and it still needed to be more (that was round bales )

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gone up the hill said:

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 !

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Hfd Cattle said:

I'm glad someone else thinks that ..... I was struggling to believe that a haulage would've not had a bearing on delivered fodder .
I sent a load off on Thurs and the driver said it was costing £3 a bale more for delivery now than he charged in March and it still needed to be more (that was round bales )

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lloyd said:

The sheep trade always drops fast this time of year what's new.
Do you want to be cooking lamb on very hot days?
In fact the fat lamb trade has been running ahead of last year for
several weeks now and has held up remarkably well.

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gone up the hill said:

Sorry maybe i should have been a bit clearer in my above post ref haulage.

It wont have any affect on delivered in price for straw etc.

But of course extra haulage costs now being seen need to be passed on/ factored into the straw price because in the long term hauliers cannot carry these much higher costs without passing them on.

The problem is it will all come down to demand/ supply of straw and if there is lacklustre demand but high supply it will be cheap and vice versa.

No way all the loads of wheat that have been delivered in at £85 a tonne the last 2/3 months have had higher fuel costs factored into the price!

As we see with other sectors of AG what people need to make and what the market place will pay is two very diffirent things!

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gone up the hill said:

The lamb trade has at best been stand on from last year and many weeks behind last years prices and that is before we include the much higher input prices this year!

I would say the lamb trade has not held up remarkably well at all but just stood still and with the current very high costs of inputs across the board that is not sustainable in either the short or long term !

Do you farm sheep?

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lloyd said:

Sheep,cows ,osr,wheat,barley,oats,and a few divesifications .
I just dont agree with you the spring lamb and cull ewe trade has been ok up to now.
You must be too young or were not farming sheep 30 odd years ago to remember
how dire the sheep trade was .Cull ewes worth pittance and lambs being rejected
for being over fat (Now they want them on the fatter side)the same time as NZ lamb was flooding into the UK and sinking the price faster than you could run.

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som farmer said:

straw price, will be set, by amount available, and price, the cost of haulage etc, and the dealers margin. If he cannot make a profit, he isn't going to do it, simply because he has to live. It could be argued, that generally, livestock farmers, have had a run of good prices, so should pay more, for straw, but they won't think that.

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Werzle said:

Paid too much last year so need it cheaper this year to average it out. For all the talk of choppers etc there is extra acrerage on offer this year , not less and people have carry over in the barns. Im not getting into the annual straw talk up/down prices this year , it will be what it will be.

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Hfd Cattle said:

Standing straw sales around here are huge .....and fantastic crops ! .......I'm not talking it down ......I just can't see it being up

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Werzle said:

Paid too much last year so need it cheaper this year to average it out. For all the talk of choppers etc there is extra acrerage on offer this year , not less and people have carry over in the barns. Im not getting into the annual straw talk up/down prices this year , it will be what it will be.

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thorpe said:

drop the chopper , turned the knives on ours yesterday. can hear it humming now!

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