Will they be a shortage of new wheat etc seed this harvest/ autumn . Should new seed be booked now ,had any prices ?
Seed shortage
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Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Will be plenty carry over I imagine.
Lots of acres not sown.
The trade will create a story about shortages no doubt.
Lots of acres not sown.
The trade will create a story about shortages no doubt.
Yes trade are saying they will be a shortage
It's seed crops in the ground now for new seed this autumn which are short they say
And less demand due to SFI options, maybe
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Got last year's in the shed, so am sorted.
We'll just have to wait another year to benefit from the unbridled prosperity that new varieties always bring, then.
- Location
- Yorkshire coast
More like a shortage of buyers for seed with all the ground thats going into sfi. Don't let the merchant talk the price up. Most folks will have enough grain in sheds to farm save the seed they need.
It's all varieties of seed crops I'm told
warksfarmer
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No but the trade will make stories up between them to create one to hike the prices. Just sow it out of your own shed and save yourself thousands of pounds and leave the trade to their own devices. They've sold less fert and chems this year because of the weather and now pushing stupidly expensive stewardship seeds to try and cover themselves.
Does the area of farm saved seed vary much each year? Not all farms are set up to home save. I doubt it will make much difference this year. Home savers will probably be in the same situation as the certified seed users.
I doubt there will be a huge shortage - the growers of seed tend to be on the kind of land that supports roots and long rotations to get a good break from cereals. They will have mostly got drilled up eventually. I suspect the seed trade is nervous of lower sales due to the weather, carry over stock, changed rotations caused by later harvests and SFI. Frankly, I'd be more nervous if I was selling autumn sown combinable break crop seed as those are the most vulnerable to SFI right now IMO.
Why else would the trade be pushing autumn seed sales now?? Falling commodity prices that underpin the base price for seed agreed with the seed growers not hedged by forward seed sales on the books?
I doubt there will be a huge shortage - the growers of seed tend to be on the kind of land that supports roots and long rotations to get a good break from cereals. They will have mostly got drilled up eventually. I suspect the seed trade is nervous of lower sales due to the weather, carry over stock, changed rotations caused by later harvests and SFI. Frankly, I'd be more nervous if I was selling autumn sown combinable break crop seed as those are the most vulnerable to SFI right now IMO.
Why else would the trade be pushing autumn seed sales now?? Falling commodity prices that underpin the base price for seed agreed with the seed growers not hedged by forward seed sales on the books?
So they don't get complaints from customers with 23L/23H labels instead of 24L/24H.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
No!