Buying Forage for Sucklers

[M-J-G]

Just online.

Makes me wonder what it would cost to take an artic load up from there though - £10/bale? Probably north of £20 with the way diesel is going.

Quite possibly, blus anyone selling at a tenner is either naive, there's nothing in the bales or the stuff is pretty poor.
I'm guessing the latter

 

[Highland Mule]

Quite possibly, blus anyone selling at a tenner is either naive, there's nothing in the bales or the stuff is pretty poor.
I'm guessing the latter

You’d certainly need to see it before paying.

 

[Bossfarmer]

Feeding cows is becoming a very tricky balance in many cases, I spoke to someone a few days ago and they said they were spending over £200 per cow on N, which just doesn't stack up.

Suckler cows? How is that possible?

 

[M-J-G]

Suckler cows? How is that possible?

He said 100 units on a single cut of silage and a cwt spring and autumn for grazing and he's now feeding silage due to the dry spell.

 

[Magik22]

Anyone willing to share their cost calculations for making fodder this year? See how many broken calculators are out there! I bought hay in late spring for £80/t, diesel and fert prices this year I couldn’t see much in it compared with making my own.

 

[Hilly]

Feeding cows is becoming a very tricky balance in many cases, I spoke to someone a few days ago and they said they were spending over £200 per cow on N, which just doesn't stack up.

A bale of silage costs £22 to make they eat ten per winter , quite easy to spend that on them this winter coming id say .

 

[Kiwi Pete]

Anyone willing to share their cost calculations for making fodder this year? See how many broken calculators are out there! I bought hay in late spring for £80/t, diesel and fert prices this year I couldn’t see much in it compared with making my own.

I can share mine - 0

I bought ten bales last week for $100 cash each, which is below COP any way I can work it out.

Nearly $85 of fertiliser in them at current prices, and all the heavy metals are on someone else's land not mine.
$16 of plastic. $10 of fuel in the various tractors employed.
Doesn't leave much in their pocket for wear+tear!

 

[Vader]

That's OK until you ask someone to pay that for a load ot two.

Know some hay been sold at 100 quid a ton.

 

[Woolless]

Know some hay been sold at 100 quid a ton.

Ex farm or delivered?

 

[Vader]

Ex farm or delivered?

Ex farm.

 

[Woolless]

Ex farm.

Thanks, I'm not sure whether to like that or not

 

[deere 6600]

In (sunny). Lanarkshire there seems to me to be bales everywhere and mostly good can’t see how the price for them will be high I wouldn’t like to rely on bought in feed for coos but some years it might be cost effective