Dear straw

[rc mx110]

Is that what your neighbour wants now?

No to scared to ask him. Not sure if he can get barley now

 

[Renaultman]

If I was going back into sheep first thing I would do is slatted floor, straw messes their feet up

Rape straw doesn't, great for sheep. Unless it was sprayed with astrokerb

 

[Derrick Hughes]

not had any feedback in this stuff yet but they shifting 14 load a week

 

[Sheeponfire]

Bedded court £15-25k
Slats to house same number cows £80-100k

There's no way you'll pay the difference, in straw, in 10 year...

I hope to farm for the next 30 yrs!!!!!!

 

[Nithsdale]

I hope to farm for the next 30 yrs!!!!!!

So do I...

But Iv a slatted shed will need to be replaced in that time. The math does not stack up, I'm gutted to say

Bedded courts are also multi purpose and can get used through the summer for things other than housing cows...

 

[onthehoof]

Wonder what the guys supplying power stations on contract at £40/ton are thinking

 

[roscoe erf]

Yikes
I was quoted £110 yesterday

asking the wrong people

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Wonder what the guys supplying power stations on contract at £40/ton are thinking

a professional operation would think of long term profit over 10 years not a quick buck. take the guy who is loading a fleet of Irish wagons with a buy British sticker in his window . what is that doing for his future trade . chances are he will never see those Irish wagons again

 

[gone up the hill]

a professional operation would think of long term profit over 10 years not a quick buck. take the guy who is loading a fleet of Irish wagons with a buy British sticker in his window . what is that doing for his future trade . chances are he will never see those Irish wagons again

Aye and he will be the first one moaning next year when the straw price has collapsed as farmers have found alternatives.

 

[rc mx110]

How much

asking the wrong people

?

 

[roscoe erf]

How much

?

to you lots

 

[6910 Buzz]

a professional operation would think of long term profit over 10 years not a quick buck. take the guy who is loading a fleet of Irish wagons with a buy British sticker in his window . what is that doing for his future trade . chances are he will never see those Irish wagons again

What would be wrong with an Ulster man taking a load home when he can it’s needed on our side of the pond. Done my fair share of baling,chasing and stacking out there I should be getting it for nothing the amount of stacks I’ve made. Most of them Irish wagons is destined for Northern Ireland can’t make straw in this country. South of the border they have plenty

 

[Derrick Hughes]

What would be wrong with an Ulster man taking a load home when he can it’s needed on our side of the pond. Done my fair share of baling,chasing and stacking out there I should be getting it for nothing the amount of stacks I’ve made. Most of them Irish wagons is destined for Northern Ireland can’t make straw in this country. South of the border they have plenty

nothing at all . but would you export all the food out a country that was already starving .don't seem right somehow

 

[Old Tip]

could be .straw market has been up and down for years but been far to many up this last few . who knows next year straw may be back to cheap again[/QUOTE)

I think the power stations taking a lot hasn't helped the job for us guys in the west, that plus the wet weather means a lot is getting chopped so they can get the next crop in sharpish.
The big plus for straw is it makes good sh1t and a lot of the alternatives don't. For us on thin poor soil a spreading of good straw muck every year or two makes the field bounce

 

[6910 Buzz]

Still the uk here 2 use would be even more starving if it wasn’t for the meat we send over

 

[Dkb]

a professional operation would think of long term profit over 10 years not a quick buck. take the guy who is loading a fleet of Irish wagons with a buy British sticker in his window . what is that doing for his future trade . chances are he will never see those Irish wagons again

Agree with the long term contract thinking. But the market surely dictates where the product goes. Selling straw out of England is not like taking food from a country suffering from famine it’s just selling a product from one business to the business that pays the most.

Nothing for anybody to feel bad about

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Still the uk here 2 use would be even more starving if it wasn’t for the meat we send over

You can keep that meat thanks

 

[Lovegoodstock]

Good trade deal, you keep your meat we keep our straw!!!

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Agree with the long term contract thinking. But the market surely dictates where the product goes. Selling straw out of England is not like taking food from a country suffering from famine it’s just selling a product from one business to the business that pays the most.

Nothing for anybody to feel bad about

yes I suppose your right

 

[Derrick Hughes]

£75 for a bale of straw .just think about it
If 50 cattle used a bale a day all winter that's £300 head