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Autumn seed prices

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
How long is a piece of string?? What generation, variety, bag size and dressing?

£356-366/t for C2 HVS in 1/2 t bags. Order sizes range from 8.5t to 16.5t, so 1.5 lorry loads in 2 drops. Siskin, Gleam and Graham with basic single purpose dressing.

I didn't want any dressing but the C2 specification does not include any disease testing :banghead::banghead::banghead:
 

texelburger

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Herefordshire
Had a little Extase(3 tons) at £430 with SP dressing.Ordered 1/2 ton of Graham and Gleam C2 to go after grass and keep the seed for £380/t.The majority is Farm Saved Graham and Gleam which will be cleaned and dressed for,I think,for £ 80/ton.
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
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fudge

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire.
How low is a safe rate planting wheat now ( Midlands ) into a fairly ideal seedbed on medium / light land ?
I won’t know! When we were drilling at this time of year I drilled @ 125kg/ha. These days drilling a month later I use the catch all rate of 200kg/ha. We aren’t really on medium land though, ours is Silty clay. 125kg worked really well with the feed varieties at the time, I won’t want to drill less here.
 

David.

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
J11 M40
It's a hell of a ballache tipping odd loads for seed down here and there, and managing combining and carting etc at harvest, or worse booking cleaner in for a forecasted wet day to get ahead, and cleaned up, and then losing half a day cutting as the sun cracks the flags whilst you are doing it.
Or your seed plot is mysteriously riddled with a spring type you have never had on the farm...
Savings appear huge if you dont value your time and hassle at all.
 

lloyd

Member
Location
Herefordshire
It's a hell of a ballache tipping odd loads for seed down here and there, and managing combining and carting etc at harvest, or worse booking cleaner in for a forecasted wet day to get ahead, and cleaned up, and then losing half a day cutting as the sun cracks the flags whilst you are doing it.
Or your seed plot is mysteriously riddled with a spring type you have never had on the farm...
Savings appear huge if you dont value your time and hassle at all.

I think the large royalty charges on farm saved tipped the balance for me.
 

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
New seed - single purpose dressing only.
Wheat - £405 1t kws Jackal,
winter barley - £380 1t kws Orwell, £355 1.5t surge.
Everything else for this year is farm saved around £80/t
 

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