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Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Herefordshire
We were early on in the sale and made £26 for round bale wheat straw which we were pleased with.The straw was bright and through a straw walker combine.
Silage made £21 and it was stalky ryegrass more suitable for cows which is what it went for.
Overall very pleased.
- Location
- Hereford
I had an instruction to buy yours for someone but could only go up to 25 so had to let it go .
Sale was pretty good all round I thought.
fieldfarmer
Member
Did you see the bales yourself and would you be happy to guess what £ per ton that would have been roughly?
- Location
- somerset
our accountant told us yesterday, price of fodder rising, especially maize silage.
true or not
true or not
- Location
- Hereford
Didn't see them but coming from there they would be good bales
- Location
- Ceredigion
Hay and Silage everywhereour accountant told us yesterday, price of fodder rising, especially maize silage.
true or not
When dairy farms start phoning for hay you know its going to be short ,they are not
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
We're not in February yet,let's see what the weather brings.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
They’ll be some rum hay about
livestock 1
Member
Loads of silage advertised some are holding on for more money and hoping the weather will make it dear
I could do with 500 ish
I could do with 500 ish
- Location
- somerset
or march
- Location
- Hereford
Buyers for everything though. I remember saying to dad yrs and yrs ago " why on earth are you baling that up ( in conventional days ) it was weathered and rank !
.....wait till winter and someone will want he said .... and they did !!
- Location
- somerset
we baled some black shite one year, been down couple of weeks, it was a ley, OM wouldn't burn it in row, a lot of pp we did burn.
got black turning it, baling it, unloading it, stacked in a barn, moaning because we thought we would haul it out to burn.
hfrs ate the lot, still black, smelt like roast chesnuts, hfrs loved it.
surprising how wrong one can be, if betted on it, l would have lost.
Northeastfarmer
Member
- Location
- Cleveland
Agreed some one will buy it….but I’ve seen plenty of silage bales making £5 at auction before…would of been better left on the floor
- Location
- Hereford
Yes , I'm going g back to the 70's with my example . Round bale silage was unheard of then ..... but your right ,however , I sold some silage a few yrs ago for £5 z bale cos it was one way of getting rid of the stuff ( and the plastic) !
- Location
- Northumberland
It's much easier got rid of if you ask a fiver, than offer for free.
- Location
- somerset
we were the first farm round here, to have a round baler, late 70's, time flies by.
it proved difficult to make good hay, OM wanted to bale to quick, his brother, the opposite, and cousin and l in the middle.
Cousin had a howard big square baler, neither OM or me, were impressed, we stuck to little bales, till the welgar r baler.
Soon sorted the hay out, just kept saying it was still green, and r balers needed it drier, and hoped he didn't check, or bring the baler to check. At least one didn't have to hand ball them.
even our first attempts at silage were not spectacular, mainly because OM wouldn't drive slow enough, the slower you drove, the more solid they were. There were some interesting comments about me taking to long, and how did my bales stay in better shape !
wrapped some lucerne, bales collapsed and oozed black shite, we wrote them off, till the cows broke a fence, and tasted them, they loved them.
but as with all new techniques/machines, it takes some getting used to, all second nature 45 years on.
one thing cousin and l insisted on, not skimping on string, then net, or plastic, any cost saving was lost p1ssing about with broken bales.
it proved difficult to make good hay, OM wanted to bale to quick, his brother, the opposite, and cousin and l in the middle.
Cousin had a howard big square baler, neither OM or me, were impressed, we stuck to little bales, till the welgar r baler.
Soon sorted the hay out, just kept saying it was still green, and r balers needed it drier, and hoped he didn't check, or bring the baler to check. At least one didn't have to hand ball them.
even our first attempts at silage were not spectacular, mainly because OM wouldn't drive slow enough, the slower you drove, the more solid they were. There were some interesting comments about me taking to long, and how did my bales stay in better shape !
wrapped some lucerne, bales collapsed and oozed black shite, we wrote them off, till the cows broke a fence, and tasted them, they loved them.
but as with all new techniques/machines, it takes some getting used to, all second nature 45 years on.
one thing cousin and l insisted on, not skimping on string, then net, or plastic, any cost saving was lost p1ssing about with broken bales.
gone up the hill
Member
- Location
- Devon
Sedge today delivered in straw prices :
Large bale wheat about £112 tonne
Large bale barley about £126 tonne
Up between £10/15 ish tonne on the month.
Hay trade much harder going than last month.
Large bale wheat about £112 tonne
Large bale barley about £126 tonne
Up between £10/15 ish tonne on the month.
Hay trade much harder going than last month.
livestock 1
Member
Harder going?
- Location
- North Yorkshire
Less money, hard work