Cost of grazed grass

[Devon lad]

Anyone got a current figure for 1kg/Dm grazed grass?
Is 7p per kg too low?

 

[Beef farmer]

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.

 

[TomB]

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

 

[Farmer Keith]

Don't think it will be that high here but depends on what your lands worth and your yield I suppose?

 

[Farmer Keith]

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

 

[bar718]

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

And still in business with all bills paid up to date ?

 

[Devon lad]

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]

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.

 

[Devon lad]

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

For a quick comparison, its not too far off.

5p/kg grass,10p/kg bales(£18 per round bale?),50p/kg cake or £500/T?

 

[Rossymons]

My figues are £12/t grazed grass:£25/t silage:£250/t cake

Roughly speaking.

 

[Agrispeed]

Probably not far off in an organic system!

5p/kg grass,10p/kg bales(£18 per round bale?),50p/kg cake or £500/T?

 

[More to life]

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.

 

[Headless chicken]

Grass 7
Silage 14
Cake 21
Is what we were told I believe

 

[Agric]

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

 

[Sid]

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!

 

[Rossymons]

Oh and on grass, lime, lime, lime!

The cheapest fertilizer anyone will ever buy

 

[Devon lad]

Input costs v output
its no good having the cheapest feed in if your output is poor.
Cost effective production.

The phrase "horses for courses" seems apt.