Farmers Weekly 2005

[Stephen E]

When our son was born, I kept a whole year of Farmers Weekly magazines to look back on. It's easy to forget what we were selling produce for back then and surviving. I'm not sure how well this has scanned, but wheat @ £61.50, barley £64.60 OSR £122.90.
Arable land £3000 / acre.
Interesting to look back now and see the changes in just 12 years.
I'll post a few more pages as I get to them.

 

[Happy]

Remember it well. Wheat & Barley barely moved from between £60-£70t in ten years from 1996.
Often wonder how we did it. Costs were much lower of course. N would be around £100t. Diesel half what it is now and chems a lot cheaper not to mention more effective.

 

[Wiking]

Very interesting indeed, land for £3000/acre especially. Recently in Sweden the price for the best land is pushing 10-12 grand an acre and I'm guessing it's similair or even higher in the UK. Please scan more if you can, like I said it's very interesting to read

 

[Nithsdale]

Cull ewes £28

Fat lambs live 112p/kg



I remember those levels of prices, but that makes it seem not that long ago

 

[Beef farmer]

Remember it well. Wheat & Barley barely moved from between £60-£70t in ten years from 1996.
Often wonder how we did it. Costs were much lower of course. N would be around £100t. Diesel half what it is now and chems a lot cheaper not to mention more effective.

Apart from one year ago,(2004) feed wheat was £35 ton more.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Finished cattle £1.96 DEAD

 

[gone up the hill]

Finished cattle £1.96 DEAD

Used to be a rarity to see any store cattle over £600 head!

Back then thou 1 fat beast would buy 7t of fert but now the same animal will only buy 5.2t of fert..

And that will be the same across all sectors/ inputs.

 

[Condi]

Very interesting indeed, land for £3000/acre especially.

Indeed. No wonder all the farmers now drive around in Range Rovers

 

[Bruce Almighty]

Drought year of 2003 I sold some wheat for £112/t

 

[Happy at it]

Milk below 20p way back then, imagine what that would be like. Oh wait a minute.......

 

[Guy Smith]

And yet with some dodgy global weather just two years later commodities were doubling if not tripling

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6962211.stm

 

[Kevtherev]

Remember it well. Wheat & Barley barely moved from between £60-£70t in ten years from 1996.
Often wonder how we did it. Costs were much lower of course. N would be around £100t. Diesel half what it is now and chems a lot cheaper not to mention more effective.

Diesel in 1996 was 11p if I remember correctly [emoji106]

 

[Stephen E]

New kit anyone?
Don't be disappointed if it's sold when you phone up though! A few classics in the making.

 

[nick...]

Thanks for posting that lot.brings back some memories.looking at the jd 7710 for £23750,you woukd have to pay that price today
Nick...

 

[7610 super q]

In a similar vein, I came across a Riverlea tractors ad in an early 2000's edition of Profi.
Not one single S/H tractor was above £20k. And fresh examples at that.

 

[wellingtonfarmer]

JCB advertised with single joysticks!

 

[Granite Farmer]

Back then i think you could buy a brand new SAME Silver 100.6 for £21,500 and a Explorer 90 for around £19,000 IIRC.

 

[Frodo2]

I thought by 2005 things had improved, but farming at the turn of the century really was dire. All sectors were in trouble. Yes things cost more now, but you dont have to buy them and most of us have benifited from the capital gains.

 

[Nithsdale]

Back then i think you could buy a brand new SAME Silver 100.6 for £21,500 and a Explorer 90 for around £19,000 IIRC.

Explorer 90 was £15,999 I remember well as the dealer was right on our doorstep.


2003 we bought a new Valtra 8150 Hi-tec II for £34,000...
What price is a 135hp Valtra today???..

 

[Granite Farmer]

Explorer 90 was £15,999 I remember well as the dealer was right on our doorstep.


2003 we bought a new Valtra 8150 Hi-tec II for £34,000...
What price is a 135hp Valtra today???..

Ahright £19,000 grand must have been with a loader fitted, I remember our dealer advertising them for around that sort of money iirc.