2024 wrap prices.

[hally]

Can anyone explain how a roll of wrap at £60 ish wraps 20 bales so £3 per bale of wrap yet a baling contractor charges £11 per bale wrapped and £3 per bale unwrapped
Does it cost £4 per bale to put the wrap on?
Making 500 bales a year would be £2000 against a wrapper.

Diesel, labour, tractor/ combi depreciation, maintenance, breakdown costs, insurance and profit.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Diesel, labour, tractor/ combi depreciation, maintenance, breakdown costs, insurance and profit.

What?

 

[Henarar]

Yea but don't you know that £4 a bale is just for the wrapper, so contractors are raking it in every farmer should go buy their own wrapper theyd save a fortune

Yes as a contractor there is more in wrapping than baling, quite good money

 

[Tsa115]

Can anyone explain how a roll of wrap at £60 ish wraps 20 bales so £3 per bale of wrap yet a baling contractor charges £11 per bale wrapped and £3 per bale unwrapped
Does it cost £4 per bale to put the wrap on?
Making 500 bales a year would be £2000 against a wrapper.

Surely hed be £4 for bailing and 3 for wrapping, west wales is around £5 - £5.50 wrapped and baled.

 

[cubby]

Recently priced to change my baler price to change was 90 pence a bale
Take the net at 70 pence an odd broken blade at 40 quid oil grease a 80 k tractor in front a man at 14 an hr in seat
We charge 4 per chopped bale
Prices going up

 

[Optimus]

How much diesel would the wrapper on a combi use? I get 300+ out of a tank full with my wrapper with the power pack.

 

[Fendt516profi]

How much diesel would the wrapper on a combi use? I get 300+ out of a tank full with my wrapper with the power pack.

Wrapper won't use alot. But dragging the combi around will and the cost of the combi

 

[Fendt516profi]

How much diesel would the wrapper on a combi use? I get 300+ out of a tank full with my wrapper with the power pack.

How bigs the tank 300litre? 30litre? What about diesel use of tractor loading and stacking or dragging wrapper round

 

[DrDunc]

Yea but don't you know that £4 a bale is just for the wrapper, so contractors are raking it in every farmer should go buy their own wrapper theyd save a fortune

Farmers owning their own kit?

Crazy

Have you seen the price of new machinery?

Second hand, however, and it doesn't take long to pay for itself

But you need one VERY important necessity.....

...... Time to operate it

 

[Fendt516profi]

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Farmers owning their own kit?

Crazy

Have you seen the price of new machinery?

Second hand, however, and it doesn't take long to pay for itself

But you need one VERY important necessity.....

...... Time to operate it

But if the contractor turned up with 2nd hand kit and wasn't wrapping bales when the rain clouds were looming the farmer wouldn't be happy hence the contractor invests in new machinery having a higher cost

 

[Optimus]

How bigs the tank 300litre? 30litre? What about diesel use of tractor loading and stacking or dragging wrapper round

10 litres I think.i wrap at the stack in the yard so it's just 1 more handle with the forklift

 

[Limcrazy]

Cost of making round baled silage will soon overtake its value. Mowing, tedding, bale, wrap, load, haul, stack. That's all after ground cost, fertiliser and spray.
Good kit is important but having to pay per bale for all the bells and whistles gets me.

 

[Bossfarmer]

remember reading on a previous thread that a pit system with sp chopper uses 20l of diesel per acre more than bales all in, not incuding the fuel for the feeder wagon for pit in the winter vs ring feeders, a figure a lot of people dont realise

suckler cow silage doesnt need to be chopped, they have teeth for that

 

[Henarar]

But if the contractor turned up with 2nd hand kit and wasn't wrapping bales when the rain clouds were looming the farmer wouldn't be happy hence the contractor invests in new machinery having a higher cost

Wrappers go on for years without much trouble and you don't need much of a\ tractor to pull it.

In the time we were contracting we had 8 balers and 3 wrappers

 

[DrDunc]

remember reading on a previous thread that a pit system with sp chopper uses 20l of diesel per acre more than bales all in, not incuding the fuel for the feeder wagon for pit in the winter vs ring feeders, a figure a lot of people dont realise

suckler cow silage doesnt need to be chopped, they have teeth for that

I keep reevaluating costs of bales compared to pit. Diesel saving of a forage wagon meant it could have made sense here once upon a time, but machinery price inflation has buggered that idea

Contractor precision chop was never in the running. To me it's a lot of dead money going out every year. Much rather invest in my own equipment

Plastic price forbales has become horrific, but it seems from this thread that it's coming down?

Making 1000+ bales a year as a one man band is a very time consuming activity! (near 2000 last year, but 500 were hay) However it's meant I own all my own kit outright, and it is all in very good condition

Much rather that than giving money to a contractor each year so they can have nice kit instead

 

[Fendt516profi]

remember reading on a previous thread that a pit system with sp chopper uses 20l of diesel per acre more than bales all in, not incuding the fuel for the feeder wagon for pit in the winter vs ring feeders, a figure a lot of people dont realise

suckler cow silage doesnt need to be chopped, they have teeth for that

You could feed out of the pit with a grab into ring feeders

 

[Bossfarmer]

You could feed out of the pit with a grab into ring feeders

slow going can take 2 silage bales on loader an once, particularly handy when feeding outside, i notice some people have pit silage AND bales, this is horribly inefficient, your either paying two sets of contractor fees or owning bot pit equipment and baler/wrapper etc

just buy a 2nd hand combi and do it yourself, u can also use it for straw

 

[Bossfarmer]

I keep reevaluating costs of bales compared to pit. Diesel saving of a forage wagon meant it could have made sense here once upon a time, but machinery price inflation has buggered that idea

Contractor precision chop was never in the running. To me it's a lot of dead money going out every year. Much rather invest in my own equipment

Plastic price forbales has become horrific, but it seems from this thread that it's coming down?

Making 1000+ bales a year as a one man band is a very time consuming activity! (near 2000 last year, but 500 were hay) However it's meant I own all my own kit outright, and it is all in very good condition

Much rather that than giving money to a contractor each year so they can have nice kit instead

summer months are quieter here so time for doing it ourselves, way i see it the wrap is similar cost per acre as getting a contractor in for pit, and your saving 20l per acre on top

 

[BIG PACK]

Can anyone explain how a roll of wrap at £60 ish wraps 20 bales so £3 per bale of wrap yet a baling contractor charges £11 per bale wrapped and £3 per bale unwrapped
Does it cost £4 per bale to put the wrap on?
Making 500 bales a year would be £2000 against a wrapper.

He would of been paying more like £75 per roll of wrap last season so would of been nearer 4 quid in wrap

 

[lloyd]

Any prices this week?