Crazy Straw prices

[Loading shovel]

Currently my Straw merchant is taking it out of my shed at £90 per ton and today said that Feb/march time he will pay £110 a ton!!!
How is the end consumer affording these prices?

 

[bobk]

Currently my Straw merchant is taking it out of my shed at £90 per ton and today said that Feb/march time he will pay £110 a ton!!!
How is the end consumer affording these prices?

Who's bothered , straw has been too cheap too long .

 

[gone up the hill]

Currently my Straw merchant is taking it out of my shed at £90 per ton and today said that Feb/march time he will pay £110 a ton!!!
How is the end consumer affording these prices?

A few threads on the straw price in the livestock section @Loading shovel

Your merchant cant predict trade like that, last year straw went to over £100t delivered in down here in Jan/ feb, farmers stopped buying, trade then dropped £15t to get things moving again.

I wouldn't be at all surprised to see the same happen this winter as well!

 

[DRC]

No different to crazy cattle prices.
How do people make it pay to put cattle in for the winter, unless they don’t put a value on their silage bales or straw.
Hereford weanlings should be £250 each .

 

[DrDunc]

Farm sale near Bathgate yesterday, round bales of straw sold to £32.50 a bale.

Utter desperation driving prices ludicrously high. I'm out wintering cattle for he first time in years. It'll be cheaper to reseed a field and buy extra fertiliser for spring grass, than to buy enough straw to bed everything.



Same sale, Timothy hay made £49 a bale sold to a horse fodder dealer.

Those prices are ex shed.

 

[DrDunc]

No different to crazy cattle prices.
How do people make it pay to put cattle in for the winter, unless they don’t put a value on their silage bales or straw.
Hereford weanlings should be £250 each .

Bollox, at £700 a head they're still not enough.

The supermarkets should be paying more instead of paying profit dividends. Retail food is too cheap and the retailers margins are too high. That's the problem, not the livestock breeding farmer income.

 

[bobk]

Bollox, at £700 a head they're still not enough.

The supermarkets should be paying more instead of paying profit dividends. Retail food is too cheap and the retailers margins are too high. That's the problem, not the livestock breeding farmer income.

Don't complain about the straw price then

 

[jendan]

No different to crazy cattle prices.
How do people make it pay to put cattle in for the winter, unless they don’t put a value on their silage bales or straw.
Hereford weanlings should be £250 each .

A bucket fed dairy cross one? but calves are making that. No suckler farmer would do it for that;the cheapest you can keep a cow for is £300-£350 per year.

 

[DRC]

A bucket fed dairy cross one? but calves are making that. No suckler farmer would do it for that;the cheapest you can keep a cow for is £300-£350 per year.

It was a tongue in cheek comment.

 

[DrDunc]

Got a lorry and drag load yesterday.

£80 a tonne, delivered.

Straw has been lying and there's the odd bale with a wet lump, but it's perfect for bedding. It weighed 17 tonne for a 76 round bale load.

Nobody needs to be paying looney money for it.

 

[hally]

We are paying 80 for barley and 75 for wheat straw, too much panic about straw price imo