Chopping or dropping

Timbo

Member
Location
Gods County
Snetterton power station is going to be offline until at least the spring due to a catastrophic failure, releasing lot of straw onto the market. I know of a couple of people able to fulfil 2022/23 contracts with 2021 straw and not having to take the baler out of the shed

What happened ???
 

Robm 1959

Member
Location
West Sussex
Selling most of ours. Rape doesn’t like a seed bed full of straw, and we don’t have the kit to properly incorporate yet, plus the local farmers are willing to pay the price.
 

Mr Tree

Member
Location
Sth Yorkshire
Interesting to here everyones ideas.
We’ve decided to chop the wheat where it will go into AB6 over wintered stubble .

I feel that it will have rotted and degraded nicely to incorporate after that and help the ‘structure’ and PK requirements to go again 🤞
 
Location
Devon
Only baling what we need for pig unit. Too expensive to cart about for family and others in West Country or Northumberland. Nobody keen to buy for power stations.
If those livestock farms in the Westcountry or Northumberland etc cannot get sensible priced straw they will cut or destock their livestock numbers..

Then who is going to buy your highly priced grain ( that you need such high prices for to cover very high input prices ) ??

Especially when hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain come out of Russia/ Ukraine and crash grain prices and which will happen sooner or later but it certainly will be within the next two years!

What happens when fert is £800 ton and your wheat is £140 a ton and not £280+ ?? it will happen, not a case of if but when!

Be carefull what you wish for !!
 

teslacoils

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lincolnshire
The flip side is that every year stock farmers moan about price of straw but keep on buying straw.

A few £ per ton either way won't get more folk to chop or bale it, nor will it see stock farmers pack up. There's a million and one reasons to chop or bale but the price is probably not at the top of the list.
 

Hindsight

Member
Location
Lincolnshire
If those livestock farms in the Westcountry or Northumberland etc cannot get sensible priced straw they will cut or destock their livestock numbers..

Then who is going to buy your highly priced grain ( that you need such high prices for to cover very high input prices ) ??


Especially when hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain come out of Russia/ Ukraine and crash grain prices and which will happen sooner or later but it certainly will be within the next two years!

What happens when fert is £800 ton and your wheat is £140 a ton and not £280+ ?? it will happen, not a case of if but when!

Be carefull what you wish for !!

It will go on a boat at Immingham GUTH. Simple as that really.
 
If those livestock farms in the Westcountry or Northumberland etc cannot get sensible priced straw they will cut or destock their livestock numbers..

Then who is going to buy your highly priced grain ( that you need such high prices for to cover very high input prices ) ??

Especially when hundreds of thousands of tonnes of grain come out of Russia/ Ukraine and crash grain prices and which will happen sooner or later but it certainly will be within the next two years!

What happens when fert is £800 ton and your wheat is £140 a ton and not £280+ ?? it will happen, not a case of if but when!

Be carefull what you wish for !!
Ha, ha, you make me laugh. Are we going to de stock because straws up £20 ton, looks like there's some opportunities coming with all these empty cattle yards available to rent.
 
The sensible thing to do is only put in the swath what you know you have already sold. Again, this is where the guys with the long term nobody-gets-shafted agreements will win. I suppose it would be ideal to have a shed or two about that you can store a bit in and use to speculate even if it sits there for 12 months or more.
 

7610 super q

Never Forgotten
Honorary Member
Only got an iccle bit this year any way. Depends on the weather. I'm not going to faff about moving swaths with the Haybob for weeks on end. Nice settled spell, and will probably bale it.
Only seems to be in demand 1 year in 4. Selling straw to livestock farmers is like selling snow to an Eskimo who's cat has just died. Life's too short for the hassle TBH.
 

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