Contracts

[ImLost]

How do broiler contracts work? Payed per bird or per kg? Who pays for birds/feed etc??
How much per bird/per kg do you get paid?

 

[chickens and wheat]

Many growers pay for birds,feeds everthing then sell for maybe 86p/kg
Buyer pays catching and haulage
Feed and chicks normally on credit untill birds are sold. Reasonable discounts if you can pay as you go not take credit

 

[ImLost]

Many growers pay for birds,feeds everthing then sell for maybe 86p/kg
Buyer pays catching and haulage
Feed and chicks normally on credit untill birds are sold. Reasonable discounts if you can pay as you go not take credit

Thanks @chickens and wheat that helps.

 

[Fogg]

There are other ways of doing it, some pay rent per sq ft, some contracts the processor provides management and effectively just rents the whole site, others pay a bonus on performance / efficiency.

We operate on a lower-risk lower-reward basis. It allows me to sleep at night, but I'll never be as rich as Chickens & Wheat.

 

[Chickcatcher]

@Fogg and @chickens and wheat
All you need to wait for Fogg is when somebody gets the Idea of Fast charge bases for electric vehicles. I Recon Chicken farms close to Villages will be worth a fortune, that's what I am waiting for but my farm is 2 miles from anywhere, perhaps we better build a new town first!
A young lad I met in 1984 when staying with a Land Agent has been running the establishment of all the fast charge points along the trans Canadian Highway.

 

[chickens and wheat]

Yes an on farm 50kw fast charger running on solar, could happen

Then a little snackbar selling pork pies for £5. Coffee for £6

 

[Overby]

What you reckon you could charge someone for a 'fast charge'?

 

[Fogg]

20p per kW at the most, I'd have thought.

I don't think poultry sites are really where cars are going to be charged. Rural locations aren't ideal, it'll be supermarkets and town centre car parks. The existing network of filling statnios will also likely be converted. For the best part most people will get by with overnight charging at home. We're on our third electric car, I've only added juice away from home a handful of times in 6 yrs.

 

[Overby]

Could work if location is right though.

 

[chickens and wheat]

Im thinking that by the time there are enough customers locally then there will be enough public chargers around.
It could be a way of subsidising a decent on farm charger rather than making profit.
A charger would maybe compliment a farm shop/cafe

 

[chickens and wheat]

Back to broilers, the main draw over last 8+ years has been RHI, this has all but gone now

 

[Overby]

You get a charger fitted as standard anyway, or we did.

 

[chickens and wheat]

yes but they are not particularly fast

 

[Chickcatcher]

Back to broilers, the main draw over last 8+ years has been RHI, this has all but gone now

Were you not on a 20 year payback?

 

[chickens and wheat]

I meant for tempting new growers in,or existing growers to expand

 

[midlandslad]

Have chicken prices matched the upward trend in feed prices? Is it still worth getting into broilers?