Lucerne silage

[Gil582]

Anyone care to put a value on round bale lucerne silage collected ex yard and what an average price might be in a more 'normal' year

TIA

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Is it organic

 

[Gil582]

No it wouldnt be

 

[kill]

Anyone care to put a value on round bale lucerne silage collected ex yard and what an average price might be in a more 'normal' year

TIA

£40 a bale and probably should be higher really

 

[deleted user 837354]

I would say worth more than regular silage. Have you got an analysis?

 

[Yale]

Is the yard in NI or Shropshire?

 

[Gil582]

Thank you,

Yes, appreciate it will be worth more than standard grass.

No analysis- trying to gauge a value so we can set up an agreement with a neighbour who will hopefully grow it for us.

Neither- Suffolk!
Keep meaning to change my location....

 

[Sid]

Anyone care to put a value on round bale lucerne silage collected ex yard and what an average price might be in a more 'normal' year

TIA

To be able to value forage you need 3 things

Average weight.
Average DM
And Analysis

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Was it made last year?
We find a high degree of waste with Lucerne as often the stalks puncture the wrap.
I would want to have a good look at it. It is good feed but no better than well made grass silage from high sugar grass.

 

[Gil582]

Was it made last year?
We find a high degree of waste with Lucerne as often the stalks puncture the wrap.
I would want to have a good look at it. It is good feed but no better than well made grass silage from high sugar grass.

Not made - havent begun the agreement as yet

 

[Gil582]

Not made - havent begun the agreement as yet

Does a few more layers of wrap help to keep it better have you found ?

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Not made - havent begun the agreement as yet

If we had a summer like the last in the south and a continuous drought it makes great Haylage. You need to mow it and not move it until you come to bale it to keep the leaf. In hot countries we used to bale it at night with the dew on it so as not to lose the leaves.

 

[davidroberts30]

Does a few more layers of wrap help to keep it better have you found ?

As @JD-Kid says it's like trying to put a condom on a hedgehog

 

[d williams]

Does a few more layers of wrap help to keep it better have you found ?

Also wrap at the stack if possible
Not a job for a combi

 

[JD-Kid]

made right it's good but have seen grass just as good to be fair
need to use thicker wrap and more layers. same as whole crop balage
needs to be a bit dryer to get sugars up in it hence why we grew grass with ours made it better for silage making
pure stands for very good hay tho

 

[Exfarmer]

Lucerne is not the easiest silage to make, very easy to get a cold butyric mess. Made well it is rocket fuel!

 

[Sid]

Lucerne is not the easiest silage to make, very easy to get a cold butyric mess. Made well it is rocket fuel!

Made a lot of lucerne hay and haylage in Canada, different climate though