Combinables Price Tracker

[Wombat]

Bought your fert ?

yes, started with a 4 but its sat in the shed and will average out about £300-350 with whats carried over from this year.

 

[bobk]

yes

You're the man

 

[tullah]

Looks like a queue will form for pickups and tractors. But the shelves are already empty due to shortage of chips.

 

[Devon James]

Never mind your fungicide programme choice was No 1

I was pleased with that, Devon taking the title out of Cornwall . Sorry, off topic.

 

[Wombat]

You're the man

Its like Napolean said " he might be good but is he lucky"

 

[Devon James]

I needed to move seven loads at harvest. Best deal I was offered on drying etc was simply an August delivered price. I have a contractor cut it, and preferred the calm of being able to cut at 20 percent and get it gone.

So that was a needed decision. At last year's yields, if I sold the balance today I'd have earnt c£1100 per acre from a wheat crop. Plus straw. Plus bps. So not exactly crying about it.

Fair play to those who sell at the top. I aim to be in the top ten percent for yield and price, and bottom ten percent for input costs (price, not per acre). That's about as much as I can manage year on year.

Im happy to have tonnes left to sell. It's a better place to be than thinking, could have got x selling forward but now it's less than x.

 

[bobk]

Im happy to have tonnes left to sell. It's a better place to be than thinking, could have got x selling forward but now it's less than x.

I sold a load at £155 , oops and 2 at £168 , everyone takes a view , I've no regrets .

 

[teslacoils]

I sold a load at £155 , oops and 2 at £168 , everyone takes a view , I've no regrets .

I sold some November for £150ish....then moved them forward to harvest. 20 percent of my crop.

 

[Secret Agronomist]

No one admitting to sold out

Sold out, needed cash, only wheat mind. Still got 800t rye

 

[Daniel]

Sold out, needed cash, only wheat mind. Still got 800t rye

What’s that trading at currently?

 

[robbie]

I am 100% unsold in all crops and wondering how long before i get off.....

Same here, nothing sold, nothing needs to be sold until atleast late spring but how long do I wait???? Dad says to sell some now and if it's the worse price we get we won't take any harm.

 

[Clive]

 

[Clive]

Depends. If you don't need the dosh then don't sell.

or sell it and buy futures to stay in the market IF you think the market will still rise ……. or sell it and short futures if you think prices are about to fall !

a marketing tool painfully overlooked by many cereal growers to manage risk and solve cashflow limitations

 

[Old apprentice]

or sell it and buy futures to stay in the market IF you think the market will still rise ……. or sell it and short futures if you think prices are about to fall !

a marketing tool painfully overlooked by many cereal growers to manage risk and solve cashflow limitations

Good idea but I remember years ago yes tens when watching farming on Sundays one farmer lost the farm as whell. But not a shrewed man as your self.

 

[Salopian_Will]

Trouble is we can’t all hold until the bitter end and then try to unload it onto the market.
I’m going to trickle mine into the market and keep feeding it. Did a bit of April FW at £234 ex today. Obviously this area not trading as strongly as some others.

No and you can end up getting caught out the other way. I kept a few loads of 2019 harvest back to keep to the ‘bitter end’ only to find that everyone had secured their requirements and I got little more than I’d get in May 2020. It was also slow I being picked up meaning I couldn’t get stores etc ready and was generally a PIA

 

[Clive]

Good idea but I remember years ago yes tens when watching farming on Sundays one farmer lost the farm as whell. But not a shrewed man as your self.

it's amazing how some greed-driven stupidity of a few potato farmers in the 70's is still the stuff of farming legend some 50 years later !

if you don't use futures like you would a punt ion a horse they can actually reduce your risk,

less risk in my paper positions than in the pile sin my stores which was both risky to grow and risky to keep

Everything we do as business owners has risk - if I wanted a risk-free life I would get a PAYE job with my local council! and certainly never go planting seeds in soil with hope I might get more back than I spend trying

 

[Old apprentice]

it's amazing how some greed-driven stupidity of a few potato farmers in the 70's is still the stuff of farming legend some 50 years later !

if you don't use futures like you would a punt ion a horse they can actually reduce your risk,

less risk in my paper positions than in the pile sin my stores which was both risky to grow and risky to keep

Everything we do as business owners has risk - if I wanted a risk-free life I would get a PAYE job with my local council! and certainly never go planting seeds in soil with hope I might get more back than I spend trying

I'd be bored to do a council job . He was not a potato grower , grain.

 

[MrNoo]

Nov 22 price is interesting at this time of year, cant see much negative to it at the moment

 

[Clive]

I'd be bored to do a council job . He was not a potato grower , grain.

like anything in life (growing stuff included). never risk more than you can afford to loose

 

[Clive]

Nov 22 price is interesting at this time of year, cant see much negative to it at the moment

yes its still a massive discount to old crop really