Must be some money in straw

[Skimmer]

By the amount of square balers running about both old and new straw must be making money again.

 

[Hesston4860s]

By the amount of square balers running about both old and new straw must be making money again.

Really

 

[robandles]

There must be. Local farmer to me had his wife trying to sell them for £40 a round bale last winter.

 

[David.]

Did she sell many?

 

[graham99]

By the amount of square balers running about both old and new straw must be making money again.

for the people selling ,the toy's to bail it

 

[ILovebaling]

Trade seems to be a lot cheaper than last year. Your probably seeing a lot of balers running around because people have literally 1 day to bale it before the next lot of rain.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Trade seems to be a lot cheaper than last year. Your probably seeing a lot of balers running around because people have literally 1 day to bale it before the next lot of rain.

Cheap at harvest dear in winter the old saying goes .
And no I'm not encouraging panic buying but with my farmer hat on I would defo be stocking up .price can only go one way with the weather as it is

 

[ILovebaling]

Cheap at harvest dear in winter the old saying goes .
And no I'm not encouraging panic buying but with my farmer hat on I would defo be stocking up .price can only go one way with the weather as it is

Can't say I disagree. If I had a shed I'd be putting some in it.

 

[Goweresque]

Dry straw could certainly be at a premium. There can't be that much wheat straw baled dry so far. Even round here where the rain has been nothing as bad as elsewhere its been hard work getting straw baled. The good news is that there are predictions for an improvement in the weather from the middle of next week onwards and into early September, so do not despair just yet!

 

[Hesston4860s]

for the people selling ,the toy's to bail it

But no one appears to want to buy em, my own baler and chaser is for sale but not selling. I’ve ended up using both but very limitedly, so far I’ve chased 240 mini Hesstons for someone and baled 66 quads for someone else !. There’s straw on the deck everywhere round here and hardly a baler in sight !.

And they say there’s money in straw ! Pfffffff.

 

[DrWazzock]

All we have done here is 36 round and 400 small spring barley straw. With 2 of us on 200 acres it's been all we have been able to fit in between combining and weather.

There is a big crop of straw but getting it dry is a different matter.

 

[ILovebaling]

But no one appears to want to buy em, my own baler and chaser is for sale but not selling. I’ve ended up using both but very limitedly, so far I’ve chased 240 mini Hesstons for someone and baled 66 quads for someone else !. There’s straw on the deck everywhere round here and hardly a baler in sight !.

And they say there’s money in straw ! Pfffffff.

What chaser you selling?

 

[Still Farming]

There must be. Local farmer to me had his wife trying to sell them for £40 a round bale last winter.

Still trying this year some?

 

[ILovebaling]

Apparently a big farming lot round here baled and led 1000 acres of straw on Thursday last week. How many balers I don't know, someone counted at least 7, but supposedly there was 14 tractors and trailers and I'd imagine you'd need a few tele handlers as well. Going to be some bill as usually they lead it all themselves with own wagons.

 

[Still Farming]

All think there is a "killing" to be made this year

 

[Hesston4860s]

What chaser you selling?

Heath Superchaser QM

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[Steevo]

Dry straw could certainly be at a premium. There can't be that much wheat straw baled dry so far. Even round here where the rain has been nothing as bad as elsewhere its been hard work getting straw baled. The good news is that there are predictions for an improvement in the weather from the middle of next week onwards and into early September, so do not despair just yet!

We've cut all our wheat straw and 90% was huge crops of long straw but all baled dry. Took some serious organisation by the straw buyers though - baler, trailers and handler running flat out into the evenings to shift it or get it stacked that day. Getting two dry days in a row, one to cut and the other to bale and cart has been almost impossible.

 

[ILovebaling]

Heath Superchaser QM

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I've mentioned it to someone that might be interested.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Is straw that has had a sniff of rain on it all that bad? Or straw that has been baled immediately behind the combine?

 

[ILovebaling]

Is straw that has had a sniff of rain on it all that bad? Or straw that has been baled immediately behind the combine?

Not if you can get it dried back out. And some has had a lot of rain on it now, laid for 3 weeks or more round these parts. And I know there is going to be a lot of bad barley bales up here, that was either 'dried out' or baled behind the combines.