Cost of grazed grass

Haven't got a cost, but...... more expensive than zero grazed.

Tin hat on

But..... with no waste what so ever, no field rejection, and quicker regrowth. The massive down side is the slurry that they produce whilst stood in the yard.

That said if a ring fenced farm that could be grazed and run with a quad bike only was avaliable, I'd jump at it.
 

Farmer Keith

Member
Location
North Cumbria
Fag packet figures.

£/ha

Rent 250
Fert 125
Cost of fert application 50
Spray (10% of area?) 3?
Topping/pre mowing 40
Fencing?
Tracks?
Re seed 35
What have I missed out?

£503/ha

12t dm / ha
£41/t dm
4.1p/kg dm

Roughly where I'd got to as well, problem
Is there is people not a million miles away from here paying twice that rent, problem for them anyways
 

Devon lad

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Location
Mid Devon
I was looking at 10t/Ha by the time you took utilisation in to account(85%).
Where do people see it as a % of other types of input primarily silage and dairy cake.
They always thought silage was half the cost of cake and grazed grass half the cost of silage, are these still regarded as reasonably accurate?
 

Rossymons

Member
Location
Cornwall
I was looking at 10t/Ha by the time you took utilisation in to account(85%).
Where do people see it as a % of other types of input primarily silage and dairy cake.
They always thought silage was half the cost of cake and grazed grass half the cost of silage, are these still regarded as reasonably accurate?

Ive always worked on a ratio (grass:silage:cake) of 1:2:10

For a quick comparison, its not too far off.
 

More to life

Member
Location
Somerset
I was looking at 10t/Ha by the time you took utilisation in to account(85%).
Where do people see it as a % of other types of input primarily silage and dairy cake.
They always thought silage was half the cost of cake and grazed grass half the cost of silage, are these still regarded as reasonably accurate?
I'd say so for this winter it always surprises me how expensive silage is we really should just buy it in. Poor yielding maize crops are more expensive than wheat on dm terms according to some work I saw this year. They also had grass in at circa £70 I wish I'd taken a photo of the breakdown re inputs and rents.
 

Agric

Member
Location
East Yorkshire
Kingshay put grazed grass at anywhere from 3.9-6.0ppl depending on what's in the sward.
Silage at 7.4ppl and up, depending on cut. Silage seems a bit cheap to me :scratchhead:
 

Sid

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
South Molton
Input costs v output
its no good having the cheapest feed in if your output is poor.
Cost effective production.

Oh and on grass, lime, lime, lime!
 

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