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<blockquote data-quote="DrWazzock" data-source="post: 9240785" data-attributes="member: 2119"><p>If somebody said there’s an option that pays £1500 per ha would people take it?</p><p>Yes. It’s called winter wheat. There are of course costs involved but there are costs with all of these options.</p><p>I’ve just had a payment for £22k for last years very mediocre crop of OSR which gave an excellent break for this years wheat.</p><p>With a lot of messing about and reducing my cereal output by 60%, break crops to zero I can trouser £22k gross off the taxpayer cash before costs involved in those options. TBH I’m not convinced or impressed. It seems like a massive drop in turnover though I know it’s about margins. Two years ago we had 4 tonnes per acre of Bolton Winter barley which we sold for £292 per tonne. There’ll be no chance of that kind of bonanza if we sign up to schemes. The headline payment rates look big for some options but they are gross not net returns. I feel we are somehow about to shrink our business to insignificance if we sign up and other than grass herbal leys for grazing I’m not sure anything is worth the bother. People forget the income lost by displacing cropping. Wheat, barley and even OSR need to continue here otherwise we’ve no big heaps and no big cheques just a kind of thin gruel.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="DrWazzock, post: 9240785, member: 2119"] If somebody said there’s an option that pays £1500 per ha would people take it? Yes. It’s called winter wheat. There are of course costs involved but there are costs with all of these options. I’ve just had a payment for £22k for last years very mediocre crop of OSR which gave an excellent break for this years wheat. With a lot of messing about and reducing my cereal output by 60%, break crops to zero I can trouser £22k gross off the taxpayer cash before costs involved in those options. TBH I’m not convinced or impressed. It seems like a massive drop in turnover though I know it’s about margins. Two years ago we had 4 tonnes per acre of Bolton Winter barley which we sold for £292 per tonne. There’ll be no chance of that kind of bonanza if we sign up to schemes. The headline payment rates look big for some options but they are gross not net returns. I feel we are somehow about to shrink our business to insignificance if we sign up and other than grass herbal leys for grazing I’m not sure anything is worth the bother. People forget the income lost by displacing cropping. Wheat, barley and even OSR need to continue here otherwise we’ve no big heaps and no big cheques just a kind of thin gruel. [/QUOTE]
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