Loads of straw
- Thread starter warksfarmer
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warksfarmer
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It’s more than that I can assure you!
No need
TopBanana
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What’s the yield please (not straw)?
warksfarmer
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Depends on soil, but good soil we’ve been around 3.8t/ac consistently whilst generally making group 1 spec. Not so nice soil 3.5t/acre. This year though 3.1t/acre but no idea yet if it made group 1 as no test results back.
TopBanana
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Has this been a low cost crop or full inputs? I’d be happy with those results though based on the year, especially if that’s a low cost system.
warksfarmer
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As low input system as possible. 3 cheap fungicides, 200kg N, no p & k from a bag, no tilled mostly, no snake oils etc. Cost per tonne sold input wise historically has been around £38. Will be higher this year due to the lower yields. However straw yields are adding £200/ac to the gross margin easily.
Warp Land Farmer
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- Location
- Hazzard County
£200 per acre for straw? Is that correct? Crikey.
- Location
- SG9
Bringing back to life!
Love to know what straw yields actually are,
Mine
Baled 70Ha wheat straw with a Massey 2190 (1200*900) and average weight has been 424Kg per bale ended up with 1.62 tons of straw/acre 4tons/Ha
net sale was £165/Ha about £66/acre
Nowhere near some prices posted earlier but better than the £9 a bale offered by contractors
600kg is the amount said to be in some of these High Density bales
1.6 tons put into 600kg bales at £9 a bale would have yielded £24 an acre
1.6 tons put into 600kg bales at £12 a bale would have yielded £32 an acre
To get close and leave a margin for contractors would £20/600kg bale be too much to hope for?
Love to know what straw yields actually are,
Mine
Baled 70Ha wheat straw with a Massey 2190 (1200*900) and average weight has been 424Kg per bale ended up with 1.62 tons of straw/acre 4tons/Ha
net sale was £165/Ha about £66/acre
Nowhere near some prices posted earlier but better than the £9 a bale offered by contractors
600kg is the amount said to be in some of these High Density bales
1.6 tons put into 600kg bales at £9 a bale would have yielded £24 an acre
1.6 tons put into 600kg bales at £12 a bale would have yielded £32 an acre
To get close and leave a margin for contractors would £20/600kg bale be too much to hope for?
- Location
- leics/warks border
At the fodder sale at Lutterworth Rugby club yesterday 6 string Quadrant size bales of wheat straw made around £20, the 1.2m high ones upto £33.
I left about a third of the way through so don't know how prices were after that, but folks were queueing out of the door.
Some lots were un sold as the vendors presumably expected more.
I left about a third of the way through so don't know how prices were after that, but folks were queueing out of the door.
Some lots were un sold as the vendors presumably expected more.
Spring barley struggles to do more than 1 ton / acre here.
So, about £100 / acre less baling and other costs this year. In normal years that would be £50 / acre less costs. Hardly new RR territory.
So, about £100 / acre less baling and other costs this year. In normal years that would be £50 / acre less costs. Hardly new RR territory.
Can't comment on the rest of the map but Welsh speaking hillbilly sounds about right here
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Surprisingly accurate!
what was hay making ?
- Location
- leics/warks border
Didn't write much down but small bales around £3.80 quadrants £77 I think some bigger bales made £88
£10 each?