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Are Contractors rates having to go up.
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<blockquote data-quote="Mounty" data-source="post: 7795195" data-attributes="member: 674"><p>No doubt that rates will have to go up across the board. I don't think we've seen the fall out from haulage/diesel/wages from a lot of hauliers yet either. Price hikes have started but definitely more to come. We've added pence to our prices for a few years, sometimes nothing at all but with costs increasing we have to pass something on, but thats just to stand still. Never had an SFP to top things up in a good year let alone a difficult one.</p><p></p><p>I try not to think about it too much but without some of the spreading contractors we have there would be hundreds of farms without a service available. It's a much, much thinner line than many are aware of. One outfit is a father and son with one other driver. They probably spread 10 or 15,000 tonnes in a short period over harvest. They really need a large increase and probably a load of people to reject it so they have less work but similar money as the stress of getting everything done doesn't really justify the hassle, even at double the price they charge.</p><p></p><p>A lime quarry I know has 3 people working in it but just about breaking even. 1 of them has just left for a similar role in a non ag position but £10k a year more and a van. He told one of the others and he joined him. So now 1 left in the quarry which now cannot function and he's thinking about going too. Apart from the problem of finding 3 new members of staff, the experience and knowledge they had accumulated has now gone. In the past, you paid peanuts and got monkeys. Now you probably have to pay a fortune but could still get monkeys. Very difficult times ahead.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mounty, post: 7795195, member: 674"] No doubt that rates will have to go up across the board. I don't think we've seen the fall out from haulage/diesel/wages from a lot of hauliers yet either. Price hikes have started but definitely more to come. We've added pence to our prices for a few years, sometimes nothing at all but with costs increasing we have to pass something on, but thats just to stand still. Never had an SFP to top things up in a good year let alone a difficult one. I try not to think about it too much but without some of the spreading contractors we have there would be hundreds of farms without a service available. It's a much, much thinner line than many are aware of. One outfit is a father and son with one other driver. They probably spread 10 or 15,000 tonnes in a short period over harvest. They really need a large increase and probably a load of people to reject it so they have less work but similar money as the stress of getting everything done doesn't really justify the hassle, even at double the price they charge. A lime quarry I know has 3 people working in it but just about breaking even. 1 of them has just left for a similar role in a non ag position but £10k a year more and a van. He told one of the others and he joined him. So now 1 left in the quarry which now cannot function and he's thinking about going too. Apart from the problem of finding 3 new members of staff, the experience and knowledge they had accumulated has now gone. In the past, you paid peanuts and got monkeys. Now you probably have to pay a fortune but could still get monkeys. Very difficult times ahead. [/QUOTE]
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