Must be some money in straw

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
I often herd barley straw is better quality if it is wilted for a few days after combine has finished,

There’s never a hard and fast rule, if it’s fit to bale, it’s fit to bale. If not, it would be better left a day or two.

Plenty of WB round here has seen a bit of liquid sunshine, on account of the green still in it, headlands of mine included (which i’ve Never done with WB before). As a consequence, straw was fit to (round) bale straight behind the combine last Thursday, before torrential rain later that night. If it had been left ‘for a few days’, given the size of the swathes this year, it would need several weeks to dry out, after the last few days & the coming weekend’s forecast....

Spring Barley is even greener, and will certainly be seeing some ‘sunshine’ in a week’s time, or it won’t be fit to combine until we get a frost.
 

Derrick Hughes

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Location
Ceredigion
Some loads we have done yesterday
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Purli R

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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.
Contractor was running 8 Balers not far from lincoln on tuesday or so I am told,that would mostly be for burning thou.How far from Lincoln are you? PM if you want(y)
 

ILovebaling

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Location
Co Durham
Tell me about these dry days you speak of?:unsure:
Yea, was wondering that myself. I had straw booked into bale yesterday, around 40 acres of rape and 20 of wheat which would actually have baled behind the combine. It rained all day. Windy and dry today now so may get a call. Can see a lot of rape seed hitting the ground now mind.

As it is not made a bale since Thursday last week and people are cutting rape at 15-20% in desperation. Wouldn't like to guess on the 2 I saw cutting WB and wheat.
 

Hesston4860s

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Location
Nr Lincoln
Why don't they load wagons with bales across the bed? Would you not get more on?

All depends on bale size really, theres a trend nowadays to stack the bottom bales on edge as “you get more on”, but it’s not the case with little quads !. A little quad is 2 foot tall 4 foot wide so how ever you stack it on a standard trailer you still only get 4 bales as 2 flat is the same as 2 on edge !.
Big quads however under normal circumstances you’d get 2 bales where as edged you can get 3 with abit of over hang.

It’s all a pita to do unless you’ve got something like a Heath grab, I haven’t got a Heath grab so it takes fooking ages turning them all over and loading 1 at a time on edge so refuse to do it now. I can pick 5 little quads up flat in 1 hit with my grab so 2 lifts and that’s a block done.
 

roscoe erf

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Livestock Farmer
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 have you got as I know a chap looking for one
 

essexpete

Member
Location
Essex
Sorry if this bit off tack for this thread in south east there contractors burden bros who bale in a big way they put acid on bales why would any farmer want that ?
When we made small bales for hoss trade we applied proprionic acid and acetic acid in damper conditions to help reduce moulds. It was expensive and needed higher rates than on the tin to make a difference. If some customers knew it had been added they would not buy the hay
 

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