Baled straw price

[MattR]

I never know what to use as a guide for straw prices - we bale all ours ourselves and sell it to a couple local livestock chaps who pick it up out of the field. Generally just agree a price we're both happy with, but I was looking for published prices to use as a guide to know where to start from. The only up-to-date ones online I can find are here: http://www.pig-world.co.uk/news/weekly_bhsma_straw-prices.html - is that a reliable guide for ex-farm baled straw? (Seem to remember a similar table in the back of the when we used to get it.) Would that be for big squares? In which case add a couple quid/ton for round baled straw?
Cheers

 

[fieldfarmer]

I never know what to use as a guide for straw prices - we bale all ours ourselves and sell it to a couple local livestock chaps who pick it up out of the field. Generally just agree a price we're both happy with, but I was looking for published prices to use as a guide to know where to start from. The only up-to-date ones online I can find are here: http://www.pig-world.co.uk/news/weekly_bhsma_straw-prices.html - is that a reliable guide for ex-farm baled straw? (Seem to remember a similar table in the back of the when we used to get it.) Would that be for big squares? In which case add a couple quid/ton for round baled straw?
Cheers

Didn't you post this identical post yesterday?
Edit, yep just looked, it's in the price tracker thread where I said it's area specific, so requested more details.

 

[MattR]

Didn't you post this identical post yesterday?
Edit, yep just looked, it's in the price tracker thread where I said it's area specific, so requested more details.

Sorry, completely missed your reply on the price tracker thread thanks, (thought I'd make a separate thread as I didn't think it would get seen on there). South west, to answer your question, so 68 for barley and 75 wheat according to that link, (unusual for wheat to be pricier than barley?)

 

[fieldfarmer]

Try and find some. in the south west who will sell barley straw for £68, x farm.