glasshouse
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- lothians
I would be quite happy with my 100 acres and a nice life
Just goes too show how wheat has been devalued. If true.
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glasshouse
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- lothians
glasshouse
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- lothians
It would crash supermarket profits on bread
glasshouse
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- lothians
Milling wheat was £165 in 1987
Fert was £80
Deisel 10p or less
Fert was £80
Deisel 10p or less
glasshouse
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- lothians
Everything up four fold
Wheat price still Virtually the same
Yield was 3 t so its not that different
- Location
- Northumberlandia
come on then whos got the best price from wheat sold in last 10years for instance? £231/t Dec 2012 is a farm record here.
Poorest i can remember was around £105 i think job wasnt good them days but thats what 20/25yr ago?
Nitram £197 when i bought it back in June & will i see that price for Nov sold wheat in pool? i'll be sure to say end of this month.
Poorest i can remember was around £105 i think job wasnt good them days but thats what 20/25yr ago?
Nitram £197 when i bought it back in June & will i see that price for Nov sold wheat in pool? i'll be sure to say end of this month.
glasshouse
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- lothians
Wheat was only £60-£70 from 1997 till 2006 bar a little blip in 03
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Rent was £40/ac tho & 120hp Tractor £30/32k early nineties was tough tines for us but more so coz of paying family out than anything.
had 4 times the OD Limit mid nineties so must have done something right since...
glasshouse
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- lothians
90 to 96 wrre great years, two with six figure profits due to golden wednesday and dry weather
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- Northumberlandia
1996 finished harvest last day of August we had a whole dry month never seen a harvest ever like it again, good old NH 8070 15ft cut never missed a beat
happier days back then am sure. mind being a biy younger must have helped
only hit that magic 6 fig profit once many years later 2008 in fact
Them days will never return
- Location
- Northumberlandia
Ordered that 6180 Massey spring of 1996 & never even driven one !!! we knew that harvest was gonna be a good one & it was.
Tractor was brill by the way, often wished id kept it. 13yrs we had it
Tractor was brill by the way, often wished id kept it. 13yrs we had it
- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
I have 4 times the OD limit now that I had back in the 90s, Have I done something wrong?
glasshouse
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- lothians
Kiwis just arent happy unless ball deep in debt
- Location
- Northumberlandia
U might have grown your business. i havnt..... and they say progress is getting bigger.
- Location
- Bay of Plenty NZ
Interesting comment and quite accurate.
- Location
- NSW, Newstralya
actually, in that time frame, my OD limit is 10 x . . .
from $100K in the 90's to $1million now
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- NSW, Newstralya
im guessing in 1264 there werent any agricultural subsidies in Britain ( what was it called then ? Briton ? Great Britain ? It wasnt one "united" kingdom back then. Was it just England / Scotland / Wales / Cornwall ?? ) or anywhere for that matter ?
not much export grain grown in the major areas of north america, south america, the red sea or australia either . . .
not many other things for discretionary spending to compete with the food dollar . . .
did ( Britain / UK / insert name of choice ) even have a currency or legal tender in 1264 ?
or did the handful of rich & the church have all the land & gold & everyone else scraped a survival somehow ?
not much export grain grown in the major areas of north america, south america, the red sea or australia either . . .
not many other things for discretionary spending to compete with the food dollar . . .
did ( Britain / UK / insert name of choice ) even have a currency or legal tender in 1264 ?
or did the handful of rich & the church have all the land & gold & everyone else scraped a survival somehow ?
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- NSW, Newstralya
for the record, the price of high protein milling bread wheat here, now, in inland NSW about 400km from major populations & export terminals, is around AUD $250 / tonne to the grower
high quality pasta making durum wheat is about $350
high quality pasta making durum wheat is about $350
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Not much rice and pasta eaten in 1264 though
yeah, those spaghetti plantations really reduced the demand for wheat
sorry, no offence meant, but couldnt help myself
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- NSW, Newstralya
if anything, the popularity of pasta has been a real boon for the wheat industry - for us & the Canadians anyway. As shown in my above post with a $100 premium of durum over high protein bread wheat
the durum trade to Italy is very important to our industry
the durum trade to Italy is very important to our industry