Autumn seed prices

[Flat 10]

Best I have had so far on seed wheat is 365 for sub 5t lots. What are others getting?

 

[Brisel]

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

 

[Flat 10]

my prices were for C2 SPD.

 

[warksfarmer]

£400 1/2t bags. Milling wheat group1

 

[robbie]

For Wheat about £125 plus royalty per ha of circa £9 plus the cost in time from opening the shoot on the trailer into the loadall bucket and into the drill.

Barley about the same plus a few hours buggering about rubbing the seed up in the opico if I think there's too many awns for it to flow through the drill.

 

[limestone brash]

Cleaning and dressing your own is the way to go at current prices

 

[texelburger]

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.

 

[Grass And Grain]

£365 for C2 SPD, 2 tonnes delivered. Orwell.

 

[fudge]

Why not shuffle some of the variable cost of seed onto the fixed cost list by creating a better seedbed and cutting seed rates?

 

[Flat 10]

Why not shuffle some of the variable cost of seed onto the fixed cost list by creating a better seedbed and cutting seed rates?

False economy imo. Ok when drilling in Sep pre blackgrass

 

[Timbo]

Why not shuffle some of the variable cost of seed onto the fixed cost list by creating a better seedbed and cutting seed rates?

How low is a safe rate planting wheat now ( Midlands ) into a fairly ideal seedbed on medium / light land ?

 

[Brisel]

https://cereals.ahdb.org.uk/media/185687/g66-wheat-growth-guide.pdf

 

[fudge]

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.

 

[Zippy768]

£369 spd Graham

 

[Qman]

Memento seed barley with Raxil Star + manganese 2nd generation £454.30 per tonne. I'm being robbed aren't I?

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Memento seed barley with Raxil Star + manganese 2nd generation £454.30 per tonne. I'm being robbed aren't I?

Cassia spd and manganese £395pt

 

[lloyd]

Gleam £360 spd pay Dec
Had cleaners in plenty of times .
Personally don't think much of a saving when all costs
considered.

 

[David.]

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]

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]

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