Grass seed shortage.

[Clever Dic]

I have been told twice now to get my requirements in early as seed will be very tight. A Combination of demand for reseeding after a dry summer and coupled with a terrible grass seed crops in europe mainly due to the Scandanavian drought.
Any one else heard this .?

 

[tinsheet]

Talking up the price?.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Let me guess.....the seed merchant told you this....

 

[Happy]

No one seems to be panicking here yet. Got delivery of HF grass seed yesterday to sow after vining peas and has the same batch number as the stuff I got from them in March.

Probably will be a bit shorter than usual so the one thing for sure is that it wont get cheaper than it is now.

 

[Kevtherev]

Not heard nothing
Probably scaremongering by some salesmen

 

[Boohoo]

No mention of a shortage when I made enquiries a few weeks ago. Just the usual warning that if I want something different to order it in plenty of time, but I already knew that.

 

[Great In Grass]

Italian & Hybrid Ryegrasses have been short since the beginning of the year hence their rise in price

Grass mixtures out of their catalogue from the big seed houses should be ok through to the end of the season as they would of done their sums last winter & made sure there is sufficient seed.

I've been finding with some special mixes I can't always get a certain variety in a mix as it's all gone.

Straights seem to be ok at the moment.

Organic for special mixes, a nightmare.

Price is never talked up to my mind, seed production & wheat prices are the biggest influences.

 

[funny farm]

Anyone on here done any of their own Italian seed, got a few fields of last years reseeds that have gone to head after first cut in may and look right for combining for seed

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Cheapest reseed is pure Timothy and by gum it crops .

 

[Still Farming]

Good cheap blackgrass cover crop seeds about !

 

[hally]

Not heard nothing
Probably scaremongering by some salesmen

Me neither but has been a very busy year so far, mainly due to the sh*te that was last year.

 

[nick...]

I should have bagged up the seed of my flail mower after cutting my margins
Nick...

 

[Still Farming]

Best seed ever thus year would have thought?

 

[Great In Grass]

Best seed ever thus year would have thought?

You would have thought but the dry weather will have a marked effect on yield particulary later heading Perennials.

 

[Still Farming]

Always something.

 

[JD-Kid]

had the same thing here in dry years poor harvests prices rise due to poor seasons
last year cocksfoots were sold out. early in the season. due to poor harvest year before

 

[Great In Grass]

had the same thing here in dry years poor harvests prices rise due to poor seasons
last year cocksfoots were sold out. early in the season. due to poor harvest year before

This could well be the third successive year for poor yields in the UK and Europe the poor exchange rate with the dollar will restrict importing from North America too I'd of thought.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

This could well be the third successive year for poor yields in the UK and Europe the poor exchange rate with the dollar will restrict importing from North America too I'd of thought.

Price nearly doubled in tbe recent past so i think there is plenty of slack in tbe system to soak it up .like most things shortage pushes price up and it never drops back again

 

[Boohoo]

Cheapest reseed is pure Timothy and by gum it crops .

Cheap and a big crop, but how easily dried is it and is it just a crop of sticks if it grows too long?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Cheap and a big crop, but how easily dried is it and is it just a crop of sticks if it grows too long?

It dries a day sooner than ryegrass . Needs cutting as soon as heads are out for hay