£70 a Bale!

[glasshouse]

I saw someone in South Devon ( actually the most Southern arable field in the UK ) cutting SB yesterday, using the oldest combine I have ever seen working and the crop was ankle high at best, cut 5 acres and had about two tank loads of grain out of the whole lot, they still have another 50+ acres of SB the same to cut + a couple of fields of SO where if they get a 25 kilo bag out of each field and a dozen small bales of straw out of the two fields they will be doing well !!

Only plus point I can think of is that it is in one of the most stunning locations possible to be farming.

i will send u some rain, straw efing soaking here

 

[Still Farming]

Always a d head out there somwhere?
£20 is normal

 

[gone up the hill]

i will send u some rain, straw efing soaking here

If you get a dry day then turn it over, ( even if it is going to rain again ) might sound mad but from experience the longer you leave it in the same place the wetter it gets.

 

[Hilly]

If you get a dry day then turn it over, ( even if it is going to rain again ) might sound mad but from experience the longer you leave it in the same place the wetter it gets.

Single rotor rake good for straw, all they good for imo but thats another story.

 

[glasshouse]

If you get a dry day then turn it over, ( even if it is going to rain again ) might sound mad but from experience the longer you leave it in the same place the wetter it gets.

wrong, its best left alone, unless its out of a rotary

 

[gone up the hill]

Single rotor rake good for straw, all they good for imo but thats another story.

I prefer the really old machine that just flicks it over onto new ground.

 

[gone up the hill]

wrong, its best left alone, unless its out of a rotary

I have done it all ways and can say with a lot of experience it is better moved and will bale quicker than straw that hasn't been moved for days/ weeks.

 

[Hilly]

wrong, its best left alone, unless its out of a rotary

Na start playing with rotory stuff your in trouble, walker produced straw will stand more playing with.

 

[neilo]

There was a standing crop of barley wholecrop for sale by tender a month ago not far from me. It made £500 an acre. It yeilded 2 bales an acre! they were some expensive bales
someone didn't walk the crop before putting the tender in apparently

Crikey, I bet you’re happy you baled yours now....

I’ve heard about some sill prices being paid for wholecrop this year, but assumed it was for some bumper crops.

 

[Hilly]

Crikey, I bet you’re happy you baled yours now....

I’ve heard about some sill prices being paid for wholecrop this year, but assumed it was for some bumper crops.

What dose whole crop normally trade at ? 1k an acre is a fav to be bannded about here but always in some far away land .

 

[glasshouse]

Na start playing with rotory stuff your in trouble, walker produced straw will stand more playing with.

you have to move semi chopped rotary straw before it rots and grows

 

[glasshouse]

I prefer the really old machine that just flicks it over onto new ground.

i was flicking it over with a big acrobat type thing today

 

[Hilly]

i was flicking it over with a big acrobat type thing today

Ideal it will be gentle on it unlike a gaybob.

 

[neilo]

What dose whole crop normally trade at ? 1k an acre is a fav to be bannded about here but always in some far away land .

I know of some locally I recent years that has been around the £400/ac in recent years, but for heavy crops of Winter Wheat, not light crops of S.Barley. We do have several large ‘hungry’ dairy farms and a couple of AD plants stoking the fire though.

 

[farmerm]

Thought the market would be dropping, never seen so much straw baled around here, hardly seen a combine with a chopper going this year, some have even baled the OSR

My contractors havent chopped anything this year, even beans, my beans would have been the first except we discovered, when reading to start the chopper on the combine they bought this year was supplied damaged. So if anyone wants some bean straw... I have 20 acres lying that has been getting rained on all day...

 

[watcher72]

Heard from 2 different people today that round bale Silage/Haylage around here has been selling for £50 and £60 a bale! One seller has stopped selling at £60 as he expects it to hit £70 a bale!!

Its going to be a long winter for some!!

Any idea of £/t DM?
Far more sensible way of gauging prices.

 

[gone up the hill]

Any idea of £/t DM?
Far more sensible way of gauging prices.

Silage is sold per bale and not on a DM basis by and large as you have already been told/ will have read in the past on TFF!

 

[neilo]

My contractors havent chopped anything this year, even beans, my beans would have been the first except we discovered, when reading to start the chopper on the combine they bought this year was supplied damaged. So if anyone wants some bean straw... I have 20 acres lying that has been getting rained on all day...

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m further west than you and I chopped 2 fields of Spring Barley straw last night. How this year is unfolding I need extra fodder crops in asap, and certainly don’t have time to wait on the straw on those fields to dry out in a fortnight’s time, if at all.
I did leave another field in damp swaths, but I suspect I will regret it.

 

[hendrebc]

Crikey, I bet you’re happy you baled yours now....

I’ve heard about some sill prices being paid for wholecrop this year, but assumed it was for some bumper crops.

It will fill some bellies but at £250 a bale id have sold the bales and the bellies that were supposed to eat it
I've heard the same story twice from two different people and both said that the farmer that bought it was a dairy farmer that was presumably desperate for feed and hadn't bothered to walk the crop. I was shocked how bad mine was it looked ok till I cut it

 

[farmerm]

Don’t tell anyone, but I’m further west than you and I chopped 2 fields of Spring Barley straw last night. How this year is unfolding I need extra fodder crops in asap, and certainly don’t have time to wait on the straw on those fields to dry out in a fortnight’s time, if at all.
I did leave another field in damp swaths, but I suspect I will regret it.

I could have waited a few hours for their other combine but with showers coming and the beans dry I was not leaving them in the field! With such a poor crop anyway I couldnt afford to risk leaving them out and cut them in a fortnight at 20% moisutre and increased sheding. This isnt a lot to bale!