Round baling silage cost

[Matt]

Is the contractor supplying diesel at that price?

Chopped bales £3.50 and applying 6 layers of supplied wrap £1.80 is near enough the same if the contractor is supplied with diesel

Yeah would be their fuel.

 

[Wellytrack]

6.80 if I supply wrap . 10.50 if they supply 6 layers

So your saying you supply the wrap and net for covering the bale with 6 layers and they charge 6.80 for making the bale and wrapping it?

 

[Matt]

So your saying you supply the wrap and net for covering the bale with 6 layers and they charge 6.80 for making the bale and wrapping it?

They bale it, supply net, supply fuel for 6.80.

 

[Wellytrack]

@Boohoo

 

[will6910]

I paid the other day, £9 a bale with 6 layers of wrap and £5 for raking. They supplied the wrap and diesel

 

[Boohoo]

@Boohoo

£10.50 for barrel wrap plus 4 layers with the contractor supplying wrap and diesel

 

[DrDunc]

I paid the other day, £9 a bale with 6 layers of wrap and £5 for raking. They supplied the wrap and diesel

Were they using 30 year old equipment and making 14 bales to the acre?

Because if they were using two new tractors, and a modern baler and wrapper, at those prices they're desperate for work to pay for the quarter of a million plus pounds worth of tackle they've out on finance!!!!!

 

[will6910]

Were they using 30 year old equipment and making 14 bales to the acre?

Because if they were using two new tractors, and a modern baler and wrapper, at those prices they're desperate for work to pay for the quarter of a million plus pounds worth of tackle they've out on finance!!!!!

Using a claas tractor and a taarup bio baler. Tho wasn’t a fancy rake. Was like a hay turner but rakes to. He’s been at it 3 summers now. My regular baler man had stopped this year so had find new one and this lad was available. Others around me are £10.50 a bale and they supple wrap and diesel

 

[Ceri]

£10-12/bale 6 layers wrap is wat I'm hearing round & about here (Midlands)

I paid £7.75 last yr.

 

[Ceri]

That's with a fusion at full pressure, fair dos stacked um 4 high & they didn't sink.

 

[Wellytrack]

£10.50 for barrel wrap plus 4 layers with the contractor supplying wrap and diesel

Be about 9.80 then with the net and 4 layers?

 

[Wellytrack]

Using a claas tractor and a taarup bio baler. Tho wasn’t a fancy rake. Was like a hay turner but rakes to. He’s been at it 3 summers now. My regular baler man had stopped this year so had find new one and this lad was available. Others around me are £10.50 a bale and they supple wrap and diesel

You will have plenty of bales with a Bio.

 

[Boohoo]

Be about 9.80 then with the net and 4 layers?

Call it £10 for easy counting. Can always give them a pound or 2 off the bill if they pay out the field, feed you and don't give you any grief.

 

[Fendt516profi]

Pallet of 20 rolls of barrel wrap was £150 a roll do around 150 bales a roll at 3.5 turns

 

[Henarar]

Were they using 30 year old equipment and making 14 bales to the acre?

Because if they were using two new tractors, and a modern baler and wrapper, at those prices they're desperate for work to pay for the quarter of a million plus pounds worth of tackle they've out on finance!!!!!

what odds would it make to the customer though whether the contractor had a new tractor pulling the baler and wrapper ? that's up to the contractor to justify or not and price accordingly or not
I can see that it may be advantageous if they had a newish baler working on it hopefully producing a tighter bale or chopping it better but I can't see that the tractor makes any odds as far as the customer is concerned

 

[Wellytrack]

Call it £10 for easy counting. Can always give them a pound or 2 off the bill if they pay out the field, feed you and don't give you any grief.

Already do that. Had a bill of 636 for a customer and made it 630. He said “will I make it out the even money?” I said sure, 700 would be very generous of you but the 630 would do

 

[will6910]

You will have plenty of bales with a Bio.

Got 25 off 3 acres off grazing that got ahead off sheep. I’m a little wary as I guessed about 15 by what was in the rows

 

[Wellytrack]

Got 25 off 3 acres off grazing that got ahead off sheep. I’m a little wary as I guessed about 15 by what was in the rows

Crops are deceiving from now on. Some grazing can be very thick.

 

[will6910]

Crops are deceiving from now on. Some grazing can be very thick.

Hopefully they are tight bales. Need all I can get this year

 

[Skintagain]

And the cost of the concrete…
And the cost of the walls…
And the cost of the girders…

You still have them for next year. A pile of manky plastic has never looked so unappealing