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Cheapest form of wholecrop
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7467499" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>I have no idea how you get to the cost of a bale of wholecrop at £50, many of my clients told me that the cost of whole crop, per tonne of dry matter was similar to that of maize. Remember the cost of maize seed is not insignificant and it's late harvest is problematic some years. Wholecrop is more reliable in that respect (especially in a dry year) and the cost of seed is much more reasonable.</p><p></p><p>I would also contend that wholecrop and a tonne of rolled barley are not comparable. For starters, you can only feed so much rolled barley as it is dusty as fudge and basically DIY acidosis in a bag. Wholecrop is a lot kinder to the rumen and includes a fibre source.</p><p></p><p>It's not all as cut and dried as people think- cutting and conserving multiple cuts of grass isn't particularly cheap either, especially on farms that go dry as their yields taper off quite fast sometimes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7467499, member: 54866"] I have no idea how you get to the cost of a bale of wholecrop at £50, many of my clients told me that the cost of whole crop, per tonne of dry matter was similar to that of maize. Remember the cost of maize seed is not insignificant and it's late harvest is problematic some years. Wholecrop is more reliable in that respect (especially in a dry year) and the cost of seed is much more reasonable. I would also contend that wholecrop and a tonne of rolled barley are not comparable. For starters, you can only feed so much rolled barley as it is dusty as fudge and basically DIY acidosis in a bag. Wholecrop is a lot kinder to the rumen and includes a fibre source. It's not all as cut and dried as people think- cutting and conserving multiple cuts of grass isn't particularly cheap either, especially on farms that go dry as their yields taper off quite fast sometimes. [/QUOTE]
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