you said don't tar everyone with the same brush, then tarred all your farmer customers with the same brush
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you said don't tar everyone with the same brush, then tarred all your farmer customers with the same brush
We remove it and put it back as muck.Simple - don’t sell your straw
it’s far more valuable in your field / on your soil, than the few measly £££ you might get for it
PS - take it from a long term zero tiller ( my whole farming career of 35 years or so ), you won’t get DD / zero till to work
properly until you retain all your straw
it just does my head in the way you lot have to remove all the residue off your fields as if it’s a bad thing. A few £££ doesn’t even begin to compensate for what you are missing out on by not keeping it . . .
BACS payment when the lorry is loaded before the yard gate is opened....?What is it about straw buyers that thinks they don'y need to pay or can run their business on my cashflow ? happens over and over, diferent buyers same sob stories, without doubt the worst payers in British farming
next time a livestock farmer wonders why so much straw is chopped this is the reason
Any tips (short of physical violence) on how to get money out of a straw buyer ?
Simple, payment up front or 2 loads max credit. Sold several hundred tons like this a couple of years ago, if they want it they will pay. No time for bad payers here.What is it about straw buyers that thinks they don'y need to pay or can run their business on my cashflow ? happens over and over, diferent buyers same sob stories, without doubt the worst payers in British farming
next time a livestock farmer wonders why so much straw is chopped this is the reason
Any tips (short of physical violence) on how to get money out of a straw buyer ?
Newbury auction , not one load of wheat sold ,Auction is the only sensible way.
Newbury auction , not one load of wheat sold ,
But if more is chopped in future these bad payers won't get the straw that isn't.Bit late this time
Auction is the only sensible way.
Trouble is, if I was a fairly sizeable arable farmer, I would want to know I was selling the stuff for sensible money and helping the livestock guys out, after all, livestock underpin the demand for feed grains (and even OSR, sunflower etc indirectly), in the UK. It is thus in my interests that the livestock sector prospers. I'd also prefer to forge a relationship with a few guys and get to know and trust them, knowing that they would take the straw year after year.
An auction is purely a money transaction, you might get crazy good prices one year and not see a guy the next.
I bet you a lot of straw that is selling at auctions now cost double that in the row , but that's not Clive's problem, but it will bite us in the leg next harvest , chop chop chopI'm talking auctions while it's still standing in the field.....no point messing around baling/storing and selling in the winter. That's what straw merchants are there for, not farmers.
It’s easy to be righteous when you’re talking about somebody else’s business.Trouble is, if I was a fairly sizeable arable farmer, I would want to know I was selling the stuff for sensible money and helping the livestock guys out, after all, livestock underpin the demand for feed grains (and even OSR, sunflower etc indirectly), in the UK. It is thus in my interests that the livestock sector prospers. I'd also prefer to forge a relationship with a few guys and get to know and trust them, knowing that they would take the straw year after year.
An auction is purely a money transaction, you might get crazy good prices one year and not see a guy the next.