current Fodder beet price please

spin cycle

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Location
north norfolk
totally agree with that would rather just get more bulk feed easier to get out if its wet and makes less mess if with snacker, to be viable financially needs to be nearer the 15 a tonne i payed when i had it 2 year ago...

blimey you're worse than me:D:D.....i reckon £20-25 ex farm at mo....i was lucky and got a load home from a forum member...it was a bit 'mates rate' but then i'dve done the same for him if roles had been reversed:)

Still cheaper than filling them up with cake or grain if there’s a shortage of roughage or crop

you're quite right TBF...if a ewe eats 1/2 kg conc and 1/2kg of straw....18p/day?.......equating to 6kg of fodder beet....so 3p/kg.......£30t......plus i'd prefer the latter given the choice:)
 

Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
I never fed beet till 4 yrs ago . Now I feed about 400 tonnes. I collect it off farm when I want ,always fresh as they dig from Oct through to April, it saves a huge amount of silage bales which are expensive to produce. We obviously do make silage but a lot less than we used to which means we have more grazing ground ,we can keep more cattle, less weather / harvest worries, less plastic / net to get rid of etc etc . We tip the beet in the yard and each group has it ad lib tipped in feeders with loader. They also have ad lib straw and a bale of silage in corner of shed but a bale lasts a long time ! Saves a huge amount of time cutting off silage wrap /net etc. I appreciate that I leave myself wide open to availability or price but I've never paid more than £27 a tonne and it's mostly less. I can pick it up when it suits me so if I get a wet day or fancy an evening trip with a pint on the way home it works well. If we had a silage pit then it could possibly be different but we can't put one in.
 

Phil P

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Arable Farmer
Location
North West
As a grower, beet on a “normal” year with average yields needs to be minimum of £22-25 ex farm to cover cop and a margin.
However coming of the back of a dry 2018 where some crops didn’t even germinate or severely droughted off, yields are probably only 2/3 or even 1/2 of a “normal” year. Hence prices need to be over the £30 mark to cover cop and a marginal profit (if there’s no profit why bother!) we’re still currently moving beet at £32/t, all put over the cleaner.
Did 3 loads yesterday.
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Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
The beet I'm collecting isn't over a cleaner but is off sandyish soil so is quite clean . I see £30 as a cut off point for viability however I have had it as low as £17 so an average over the few yrs I've had it is quite favourable. I did pay for 400 tonne up front so I feel that weighed in my favour a bit.
 

Farmer_Joe

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Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
It depends what your circumstances are. Beet delivered at £42/£45 is looking cheap when silage is £30 per bale and hay is £45 + per bale. If you have roughage and crop then crack on with concentrates yes but if not..............

Thats prob true, i got second cut so hopefully fine on the feed but who knows what weather will do yet!

price i payed not over cleaner or anything was ex farm, but was not to bad stuff really.
 

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