Panic buying straw.

Cheesehead

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Kent
No, panic buying is very necessary.

I have 300 quadrants of barley straw if anyone feels the urge to do so.....
If you wish to panic sell I'm sure there would be lots of buyers for 1p a bale 😂

There was little straw around here this spring not spoken for with prices £100/ton for barley straw the biggest issues those sell had we're finding hauliers to transport it.
 

Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
Yeah you get folks who hold out for increasing prices and then spring comes and then the fodder price drops out of bed overnight. Same happened with straw, people posting straw for sale £40/bale, after the stock had been turned out🤣
You only had to watch SML late spring when straw and hay was being offered at huge prices and 2 months later it was still unsold .
I know of one who was offered £25 a bale for a huge stack of silage but he wanted 30 so hung on to it .....it's still stacked in the field !
Meanwhile he now has this yrs to sell as well !
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
You only had to watch SML late spring when straw and hay was being offered at huge prices and 2 months later it was still unsold .
I know of one who was offered £25 a bale for a huge stack of silage but he wanted 30 so hung on to it .....it's still stacked in the field !
Meanwhile he now has this yrs to sell as well !

He’ll be laughing when next year’s fertiliser induced shortage kicks in.👍

Or he’ll be sat looking at his unsold heap which he valued at £60/bale.🤐
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
My neighbour said the fertiliser he had the yard was worth £52,000 more than he had paid for it. I said he should get it sold. Let the crops look after themselves. Plenty of turnips that have been fed and sprayed and then eaten by beetles anyway.

I’ve seen plenty of turnip crops, grown by folks too tight to put adequate N on (in whatever form), that might as well of been eaten by beetles.
 

roscoe erf

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Livestock Farmer
You only had to watch SML late spring when straw and hay was being offered at huge prices and 2 months later it was still unsold .
I know of one who was offered £25 a bale for a huge stack of silage but he wanted 30 so hung on to it .....it's still stacked in the field !
Meanwhile he now has this yrs to sell as well !
they never learn high prices one year and they get a taste for it
 

neilo

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Talking of turnips ....there's a patch close by to let with run back on to fresh seeds ....£210 an acre .....is it really worth that .
Available 1 Nov to end Jan ?

Crikey, it would have to be a hell of a crop! I suppose those store lamb buyers paying £90/hd and expecting £150+ might think so?:rolleyes:

There was a late drilled crop offered locally last year. I did ring and ask the auctioneer what they wanted for it, as another 20ac would have been handy at the time. When he said it was ‘offers around £150/ac’ I started laughing. I’ve no idea if they ever got it.
 

DRC

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My neighbour said the fertiliser he had the yard was worth £52,000 more than he had paid for it. I said he should get it sold. Let the crops look after themselves. Plenty of turnips that have been fed and sprayed and then eaten by beetles anyway.
Technically illegal, but I’m sure there’s ways round it.
 

Al R

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Livestock Farmer
Location
West Wales
Talking of turnips ....there's a patch close by to let with run back on to fresh seeds ....£210 an acre .....is it really worth that .
Available 1 Nov to end Jan ?
A very good crop I’d be looking around £100-150/acre, I wouldn’t pay that upfront but when I’ve rented a field and then strip grazed it and paid on headache basis it’s worked out around to 100-150/acre..
 

Werzle

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Location
Midlands
Crikey, it would have to be a hell of a crop! I suppose those store lamb buyers paying £90/hd and expecting £150+ might think so?:rolleyes:

There was a late drilled crop offered locally last year. I did ring and ask the auctioneer what they wanted for it, as another 20ac would have been handy at the time. When he said it was ‘offers around £150/ac’ I started laughing. I’ve no idea if they ever got it.
Patch locally last year made £100/ac and i thought it was madness but im behind the times
 
If these prices persist past the spring, what will the value of grass keep and forage be like come the autumn? There won't be as much fodder about and people will mow their ground like fury to get the tonnes. Milk price is going to have to increase or there will be a milk shortage next.
 

Anymulewilldo

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Cheshire
Talking of turnips ....there's a patch close by to let with run back on to fresh seeds ....£210 an acre .....is it really worth that .
Available 1 Nov to end Jan ?
100 lambs/acre/week is £2.10/week just on feed… 😳 12 weeks is £25.20 just on turnips.
no it’s not worth that!!! Also I bet it’s not fenced either is it?
 

Hfd Cattle

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Hereford
100 lambs/acre/week is £2.10/week just on feed… 😳 12 weeks is £25.20 just on turnips.
no it’s not worth that!!! Also I bet it’s not fenced either is it?
It's on MCartneys website described as 'ring fenced' but the fencing is dire . The £s per acre isn't on the website bit I asked the vendor himself .
He could never keep his own sheep in when he had them so not much hope of keeping tack sheep in .
 

Estate fencing.

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Livestock Farmer
It's on MCartneys website described as 'ring fenced' but the fencing is dire . The £s per acre isn't on the website bit I asked the vendor himself .
He could never keep his own sheep in when he had them so not much hope of keeping tack sheep in .
I got a mate up your way who I bet would gladly take I for that, they think nothing of doing a 300 mile round trip to take grass keep so on there door step it must be worth a bit.
 

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