KS Coles fleet and packhouse sale

[Sid]

20 tractors 9 Fendts 10 JDs 2 Kubotas
SP sprayer
SP Swede harvester
20 trailers
Cultivation equipment
Packhouse equipment over 600 lots.

Huge change in policy.

 

[David.]

What's the back story then?
Due to change in farming policy can mean many things....

 

[farenheit]

50 Static caravans!!

Tells you perhaps about the migrant labour difficulties of the swede business...!

 

[Jerry]

What's the back story then?
Due to change in farming policy can mean many things....

Some members of the family not really interested in growing. Have sold land fir development

 

[Courier]

May as well get in early whilst the assets have value ......

 

[Sid]

What's the back story then?
Due to change in farming policy can mean many things....

Was only local Swede growing still going. Cut throat dealing with supermarkets and travelling further afield to find clean swede ground would be factors.

 

[Jerry]

Was only local Swede growing still going. Cut throat dealing with supermarkets and travelling further afield to find clean swede ground would be factors.

There’s one other local. They supply ginsters with all their swede.

They are probably going to up area a little to take some of the slack but not finally decided yet. They will be looking at some of the warehouse equipment I think.

But yes they have to travel to get decent red ground

 

[Willjh]

There’s one other local. They supply ginsters with all their swede.

They are probably going to up area a little to take some of the slack but not finally decided yet. They will be looking at some of the warehouse equipment I think.

But yes they have to travel to get decent red ground

Clarkes are going just as far as Coles though, they come all they way up to us in North Devon to grow parsnips and a few swedes!

According to a local farmer near us who grew some swedes for Coles it came down to not being able to agree on a price after the supermarket turned around and demanded it cheaper, so rather than bowing to pressure they just decided to fold and focus on other areas.

 

[Chae1]

Clarkes are going just as far as Coles though, they come all they way up to us in North Devon to grow parsnips and a few swedes!

According to a local farmer near us who grew some swedes for Coles it came down to not being able to agree on a price after the supermarket turned around and demanded it cheaper, so rather than bowing to pressure they just decided to fold and focus on other areas.

Good for them for sticking up for themselves and telling supermarkets to stuff it.

 

[Devil's advocate]

So have KS Coles got crop in the ground? If so what will happen to it, with equipment sold?

Swede expensive this year. But thanks to pesticide bans now an expensive & very unreliable crop to grow. Main problem 15 years ago key insecticides withdrawn so crops grown under mesh which leads to weed control headaches which get worse & worse. (sorry to swede growers post to those who know little of the crop)

 

[Jerry]

So have KS Coles got crop in the ground? If so what will happen to it, with equipment sold?

I believe nothing drilled this spring.

 

[Devil's advocate]

I believe nothing drilled this spring.

So that is why swedes so expensive then. We grow our own but early season about a month ago £640 a ton (£8 per 12.5kg net bought in small amounts of course)

We have sometimes bought there peas & beans from Sheffield wholesale market. Just brousing the web, they used to grow !,000 acre of peas, no wonder they needed 300 staff.

Swede taste of success for Wellington farmers

A WELLINGTON farming company has been named the pick of the bunch after scooping a top award.

www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk

 

[kill]

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Have sold land fir development
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To Amazon was what I was told for a new Southwest distribution centre as KS Coles site has a fabulous location next to the M5 at junction 26

 

[jondear]

Amazon has a big depot now next to Exeter airport I guess now the sky's the limit with home shopping!

 

[Sid]

Got to love the gossip about whys and wherefore about what's happening.

Anyone actually interested in buying any of the kit?

 

[jondear]

Got to love the gossip about whys and wherefore about what's happening.

Anyone actually interested in buying any of the kit?

I could do with a couple of those boxes for logs !

 

[Sid]

I could do with a couple of those boxes for logs !

And a mobile home for those times when your in the dog house

 

[puntabrava]

I could do with a couple of those boxes for logs !

With 5000 of them they will option them, probably Opening buyer will take the lot. I could do with 10 or so

 

[Sid]

With 5000 of them they will option them, probably Opening buyer will take the lot. I could do with 10 or so

How many lorry load is 5000

 

[Will 1594]

With 5000 of them they will option them, probably Opening buyer will take the lot. I could do with 10 or so

Punta we have around 250 boxes ,ideal for logs ,but not for high stacking spuds , bit far away ,come for a load and sell some £10/30 a box