Is straw job about to go tits up

[Still Farming]

When straw hangs about with wet weather etc and cultivations and seeding held up they soon wished they chopped it too !

 

[B R C]

Surely quite a lot in the East is on(already priced) contract for power stations and our yields are down so some extra acres will be needed just to satisfy the contracted tonnages?

 

[Henarar]

IF buyers are welching left, right and centre, will even more straw than normal be chopped next year? If I was a big arable farmer that had sold straw in the swath for the first time in years, then the buyer/dealer backed out and left me with a soggy swath, i’d Likely weld the chopper to the back of the combine to stop me being tempted again.

Does nobody stand by their word any more?

yes

 

[ARW]

Ive heard of deals been done on straw early, mid heat wave at big prices, prices have now dropped, deals not stood by, unhappy farmers!

 

[tw15]

Spring wheat straw chopped hear as wanted the om in the clay cap ground cover crop seed spun on and disced and rolled in . Nice to see the stuff coming out the straw chopper no dairy farmers running all over the fields with trailers and loaders .

 

[glasshouse]

When straw hangs about with wet weather etc and cultivations and seeding held up they soon wished they chopped it too !

Theres plenty of time, dont panic. if the straw is baled and not needed, it will be used next yr. If its chopped, and then its needed, the job is fecked.

 

[Hilly]

Ive heard of deals been done on straw early, mid heat wave at big prices, prices have now dropped, deals not stood by, unhappy farmers!

Idiots !

 

[Derrick Hughes]

IF buyers are welching left, right and centre, will even more straw than normal be chopped next year? If I was a big arable farmer that had sold straw in the swath for the first time in years, then the buyer/dealer backed out and left me with a soggy swath, i’d Likely weld the chopper to the back of the combine to stop me being tempted again.

Does nobody stand by their word any more?

Think the time as come for a 5 year fixed price .job is becoming a total joke . For sure some who have baled this time will never bale again in their lifetime

 

[glasshouse]

There will be a good export trade to scandinavia all winter.

 

[farmerm]

Rain keep finding the straw here

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Straw and the weather....the 2 most widely talked about subjects in farming

 

[bluebell]

what is the price powerstations pay for straw, or where do you find this out? any one know?

 

[Clive]

Straw and the weather....the 2 most widely talked about subjects in farming

And which pick-up of course and don’t forget how dangerous all Fendt tractors are or how only lexions catch fire !

 

[General-Lee]

Hmm...well....there we go. Producing straw ain't that easy. Some on here ( and FB for that matter ) think straw is made by Tescos in a factory just outside Milton Keynes..........

Umm think you’ll find once again you’re talking twaddle.

 

[Henarar]

And which pick-up of course and don’t forget how dangerous all Fendt tractors are or how only lexions catch fire !

And which bull is best when we all know deep down its the middle one

 

[Will 1594]

what is the price powerstations pay for straw, or where do you find this out? any one know?

£52 last I heard into Sutton