Combinables Price Tracker

[Phil P]

Nothing like talking prices down.

Sorry, I meant 1.3t/ac

Maybe @Phil P is working in hectares

Working in t/ac but as I said that’s not the field average as a lot was flooded off. Field average will be closer to 2.7.
To be honest though anything less than that and you may as well grow spring barley! Winter barley won’t be paying for its inputs at much under 3t/ac!

 

[teslacoils]

Tbh, with no rush to plant osr, 3t/AC barley doesn't butter any parsnips, unless you're selling straw for the price of spun gold.

 

[DRC]

Tbh, with no rush to plant osr, 3t/AC barley doesn't butter any parsnips, unless you're selling straw for the price of spun gold.

What to grow on light land though . Second wheat is hopeless . Keeps getting threatened here, but as a one man band, the early harvest , spread workload etc, just about works with the bonus of getting some slurry on and stubble turnips in for sheep.
Spring barley is ok, but clashes with wheat and then storage becomes an issue .

 

[Phil P]

Tbh, with no rush to plant osr, 3t/AC barley doesn't butter any parsnips, unless you're selling straw for the price of spun gold.

As @silverfox says, it’s an early entry to harvest and on a year where it’s selling for more than wheat dose on an average year it’s definitely worth it. Even more so when I can move the straw at over £100/ac in the swath.

 

[teslacoils]

Ah your straw is worth an extra 3/4 of a ton. Mine might be £25/AC. It's a bit of a bugger to know what to grow when our staple, non wheat crops are all unprofitable.

 

[Westman]

What to grow on light land though . Second wheat is hopeless . Keeps getting threatened here, but as a one man band, the early harvest , spread workload etc, just about works with the bonus of getting some slurry on and stubble turnips in for sheep.
Spring barley is ok, but clashes with wheat and then storage becomes an issue .

Rye!

 

[Chrisw]

Rye!

Triticale

 

[Zippy768]

How many do you want. Wrong thread
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Long haul to yard?

 

[DRC]

Long haul to yard?

No only 5mins. On slightly longer one now. I combine and haul myself .

 

[DRC]

Rye!

Yes we do grow some of that for AD . More of that grown locally now, with not many farms still growing winter barley

 

[DrWazzock]

Spring barley every time on light land here. Continuous direct drilled. Grows like a weed. Chop the straw to return OM. Easy low cost. Big yielding feed variety.
Not huge returns but low cost and risk. Wheat can be far worse on that land due to big inputs then burnout/fusarium. The caretaker option to free up time for other things. I could do the farm as a minimal part time job with continuous direct drilled spring barley. No need to be on the land through winter, no manganese, frost lift, autumn insecticide or preem herbicides needed. Allows the the rubbish to chit over winter leaving a green cover then spray it all off before spring drilling. It’s the one thing that works here without some sort of niggling problem that runs counter to nature or the weather and soil type here.
My big estate neighbour manager told me years ago that if he farmed this farm, all he’d grow would be barley. He was right.


Narrow bed with grain lifters helps.

 

[DrWazzock]

Wouldn’t contemplate winter barley. No need to get OSR in or anything else. No time for a weed chit, before drilling it then nothing to stop BG growing in it. Bigger spend for same yield as spring barley here so why bother?

 

[DRC]

Wouldn’t contemplate winter barley. No need to get OSR in or anything else. No time for a weed chit, before drilling it then nothing to stop BG growing in it. Bigger spend for same yield as spring barley here so why bother?

Well luckily no black grass here yet. And it’s nice to get land cleared in the weather we are having now. Don’t think I’d like to be waiting on all my harvest being in late august / early September , which is often the time we are doing wheat or spring barley here.
Last nights last load moisture test at 9pm, so I will be starting any time soon this morning

 

[DrWazzock]

Well luckily no black grass here yet. And it’s nice to get land cleared in the weather we are having now. Don’t think I’d like to be waiting on all my harvest being in late august / early September , which is often the time we are doing wheat or spring barley here.
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Pleased for you. Here winter barley normally does 2.5 to 3 t per acre, same as spring, but with bigger costs, more work and less weed chitting time. Granted it was a good entry for OSR or stubble turnips but those ships have sailed here now.

 

[DrWazzock]

Just thinking about how to make 200 acres a truly part time job.
Sadly diverse rotations and mixed farming don’t lend themselves to low time input.
Not sure I’ll go down that road but it’s a consideration.

 

[Sheeponfire]

How many do you want. Wrong thread [emoji3]
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Nice outfit [emoji106]

 

[Hampton]

Combining our winter Barley on the edge of Dartmoor at 14% today

Ours got down to 12.7% yesterday

 

[Shutesy]

Just thinking about how to make 200 acres a truly part time job.
Sadly diverse rotations and mixed farming don’t lend themselves to low time input.
Not sure I’ll go down that road but it’s a consideration.

We all thought you had decided to go all continous spring barley to make life easier about a year ago? I'd say just do it rather than keep considering it, if it doesn't work you can always go back to putting a bit of wheat in etc?

 

[DRC]

Sorry for taking this thread of track.
better get back to prices or we will get told off

 

[czechmate]

Sorry for taking this thread of track.
better get back to prices or we will get told off

Yes I’ve just come on here for up to the minute prices, just taking the first load of wheat to the Co op, from conversation last week, I assume she will bid €180