glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Is spring seed scarce and overpriced?
Spring seed short?
- Thread starter glasshouse
- Start date
M-J-G
Member
No and yes
- Location
- Ceredigion
What sort
- Location
- Shropshire
I was told spring barley and wheat pretty much sold out. Normally we can buy extra from Poland but the Germans have bought all theirs.
- Location
- Ashbourne, Derbyshire
Was told today there a Europe wide shortage of spring seed
- Location
- Lincolnshire
I’d imagine if farm to farm trading of home saved seed was permitted there’d be no shortage at all. Yet another shortage and cost increase engineered by the trade. If the trade really cared they’d relax the rules in a year like this but will they heck as like.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
And the sad thing is folks will be trying to grow something out of some misplaced duty to fill fields and show willing then get bent over by the trade on seed and a flooded malting barley market next summer. . I won’t be doing that. If the agro writes off the OSR it can be fallow and entered into a scheme …. permanently.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Of all the crops we grow it would be a poor do if malting barley off the heap doesn’t make germination. I’ve no problem paying royalties but can’t see why the ban on farmer to farmer trading couldn’t be suspended in a year like this. Chances are many have already paid royalties on failed crops anyway.
The irony is that if the rules were relaxed to allow farm to farm trading then the breeders might just find they had more royalties paid rather than seed just being traded between farms on the quiet.
glasshouse
Member
- Location
- lothians
Just buy” feed barley” from neighbours
SilliamWhale
Member
What about Red Tractor assured seed?
M-J-G
Member
There's a world of rejected malting barley that folks were offered bad money for, I'd guess germination will be good enough and of not just sow a bit more.
It's not rocket science
It's not rocket science
marshbarn
Member
- Location
- shropshire
Any spring barley in shropshire ,asking for a friend.
we have!
ive got feed barley spare!
Spring barley
Jimfandango
Member
I am also looking for 500kg - 1000kg of spring "feed" barley. North Cornwall.
will chickens eat mulika spring wheat got around 150 ton all cleaned to go through the feeders
We are aware of current conditions. Farm-saved seed is though defined in law as the product of a farmer’s own harvest re-sown on his own holding. The transfer of farm saved seed from one holding to another for sowing whether free, bartered or sold is transgressing the Plant Breeders Rights and is against the law.