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- North Kent, UK
I guess it’s ‘margin over input costs ‘
Osr chancer in then
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warksfarmer
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Total spend getting it into the shed ended up at £134.18.
Adjusted yield over weighbridge 1.25t/ac at 7-8% moisture average.
Flooded areas a total let down. Areas where the slugs won a total let down. Everywhere else pretty good really.
warksfarmer
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So final post on this is the osr is now sold and it’s made a gross margin of £385.41/acre. Less the £134.18 leaves a profit after all associated costs of £251.23/acre. Not accounted for straw sold or baling costs in that so it will rise up a bit more. Obviously BPS to add on as well. Very happy to be honest so doing the same again with the exception of subsoiling/pressing as well because where the crop is going is due the rotational subsoil so that will add to the costs, but we are sticking with the same approach of spending as little as possible on this weed of a crop.
This probably should be in the main cropping forum, no idea why I posted it in here!
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good result Lee - I really think this the one way to grow OSR now
Will pull the reports out of our gatekeeper tomorrow it's cost similar to yours with similar approach but OSR has yielded fairly well here so the margin will be very good, haven't sold it yet though !
crop of the year here for 2018 I think
same again for 2019 - drilled half this week and spend so far is 35p/ha seed 4L/ha diesel drilling and another 3L/ha rolling
Will pull the reports out of our gatekeeper tomorrow it's cost similar to yours with similar approach but OSR has yielded fairly well here so the margin will be very good, haven't sold it yet though !
crop of the year here for 2018 I think
same again for 2019 - drilled half this week and spend so far is 35p/ha seed 4L/ha diesel drilling and another 3L/ha rolling
SilliamWhale
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I wouldn't begrudge that one iota. I do begrudge the silly bought in cost tho