20000 increase in mchale balers.

DrDunc

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A mchale 550 will be 30 grand l would imagine. A guy l know payed 23 for one 5 years ago.
Errr, got quoted £31k for a McHale 5500 this summer

A new one could easy be the thick end of £40k next year at this rate!

I wouldn't want to be farming having to pay a contractor though, their prices will have to go up significantly; and by a lot more than the wee bit our beef and lamb prices have risen this autumn
 

Boohoo

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Errr, got quoted £31k for a McHale 5500 this summer

A new one could easy be the thick end of £40k next year at this rate!

I wouldn't want to be farming having to pay a contractor though, their prices will have to go up significantly; and by a lot more than the wee bit our beef and lamb prices have risen this autumn
£31k this year will be £37k next year from the percentage increases I'm hearing.
 
Fushions are only costing €25 k to make , some profit from then on.
On the basis of this FACTUAL piece of information it looks like good business then...obviously a lot more profitable than contracting!... for the life of me I can't understand why you don't set up and make your own baler/combos then.... at Euro 25k it could be paid for in the fuel savings you make from using Valtra's
 

DrDunc

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Dunsyre
On the basis of this FACTUAL piece of information it looks like good business then...obviously a lot more profitable than contracting!... for the life of me I can't understand why you don't set up and make your own baler/combos then.... at Euro 25k it could be paid for in the fuel savings you make from using Valtra's
You're wasting internet bandwidth

He won't understand the irony
 
I was going to change mine this year, but knowing the price increase and no machine improvements and what the f**k are we paying for, be cheaper to buy a 2nd hand one for spares or run 2. This greed has to stop, is there anyone on here that are willing to pay 40, 45, or even 50k for just a round baler. Not had a new fusion price yet but won,t make good reading, how the hell are we suppose to turn a profit, the money is just not in the job anymore.
Don't know about greed .. but have you seen World commodity prices? energy up 365% on 2020, sheet metal up 234%,hot rolled coils up 200%, polyethylene up123% and the World Container Composite Index is reporting a rise of 292% over a year..Add to that that China has dramatically cut exports of steel, silicon and now magnesium and prices are only going to go one way !
 

Full of bull(s)

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Within the trade it’s a known fact that the actual manufacturing cost is about 30-35% of retail price for farm machinery.
I was told by a guy reasonably high up in JD that tyres accounted for just over 30% of the production cost of a tractor, but followed on that the amounts spent on R&D and keeping up with ever changing emissions rules accounted for more. The physical machine is the cheap part
 

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