But if folks that normally chop start baling, won't that crash the price ?Can’t ignore the price this year ! 50% of the extra income will be invested in extra compost / fym etc
Won’t be a regular thing unless prices stay so high
But if folks that normally chop start baling, won't that crash the price ?Can’t ignore the price this year ! 50% of the extra income will be invested in extra compost / fym etc
Won’t be a regular thing unless prices stay so high
Hopefully, its like poker and 100 or above im sticking !But if folks that normally chop start baling, won't that crash the price ?
Our committed no-till direct driller (of about 18 years) always sells some straw to his livestock neighbours and this year is no exception. On one field of first wheat that they have chopped this year because the straw was not very thick, it has not weathered at all so has not 'smashed' in the chopper and with no worms near the surface and no prospect of any real rain they are wondering how they are going to drill into this thick mat!Suprised to see a committed direct driller baling his valuable crop residue and soil food
But if folks that normally chop start baling, won't that crash the price ?
It will be interesting to see what happens to the no till direct drill only farms this year with the ground conditions in some areas of uk where min rain for nearly 4 months and what drill will be used. Mind you for us late drill to combat blackgrass could have been raining for next 4 months !Our committed no-till direct driller (of about 18 years) always sells some straw to his livestock neighbours and this year is no exception. On one field of first wheat that they have chopped this year because the straw was not very thick, it has not weathered at all so has not 'smashed' in the chopper and with no worms near the surface and no prospect of any real rain they are wondering how they are going to drill into this thick mat!
I think its criminal chopping straw this year with so many people short.was told a story only this week of a grain trader somewhere down the west country who would not buy grain from farmers chopping straw.its getting a desperate situation and can see things not ending well for some people
Nick...
I would normally chop all the wheat straw, but I'm baling the lot this year, hopefully back to chopping for the foreseable future...
A friend of mine has a contract combining job on a neighbouring farm run by agents, he refused to cut it if they persisted with chopping it, the agents agreed not to and there's a few more loads heading off where it's needed.
I've made the same point on here about the livestock boys were quiet when feed wheat was £100/t two years ago...Well he’s lucky those agents didn’t just get another contractor!
I’m not agreeing with this demand that everybody should bale straw because it’s short!
Since when did the feed buyers help the cereal farmers when wheat was £80/tonne!!
In times of difficulty people adapt and use alternatives not expect help like free loaders.
But if folks that normally chop start baling, won't that crash the price ?
Think I'll chop mine then.....Yes.
Every area has it's 2 or 3 big contract farmers these days.
If the two in my area that usually chop don't then that's an extra 14,000 acres of straw on the market.
And as for the contractor, he's a farmer first and the bit of contracting isn't a pivotal part of his business !!
Am I the only one who had the drought then ? Spring barley knee high, don't expect much more than 2/3 bales (round ) / acre.
Can’t ignore the price this year ! 50% of the extra income will be invested in extra compost / fym etc
Won’t be a regular thing unless prices stay so high
No, he has a lot of cattle himself and probably has sympathy for his fellow stock farmers who unlike himself has a substantial arable area to substitute alternatives to grass from.Sounds like another self important twot
No, he has a lot of cattle himself and probably has sympathy for his fellow stock farmers who unlike himself has a substantial arable area to substitute alternatives to grass from.
Think I'll chop mine then.....
Next year the straw price could be on the floor anyway ( as it was in 2014/15 ). I for one am going to be miffed, that this once in a blue moon chance to make some money has been fudgeed.
Well, let's hope so.....surely where you are straw would be hovered up by the irish
surely where you are straw would be hovered up by the irish