Rye Wholecrop Value? - Inadvertent crop :(

[CouchFarmer]

Long story short - we aimed for Winter Barley and ended up with Rye due a seed mix up - b£$%y seed company .
No-one in our area (SW Scotland) grows rye.
We're about to wholecrop it - does anyone have experience of valuing Rye wholecrop for sale out of a silage pit?

 

[Al R]

£1/tonne/DM.

 

[CouchFarmer]

Does higher ME (or starch) make any difference seeing as there is grain included with the forage?

 

[som farmer]

was it ordinary rye, (for ryeveta), humbolt for grazing, or the new hybrid rye ! Very different results, the hybrid, should have good energy levels, will be able to confirm later on, as we have clamped some !

 

[Nithsdale]

Long story short - we aimed for Winter Barley and ended up with Rye due a seed mix up - b£$%y seed company .
No-one in our area (SW Scotland) grows rye.
We're about to wholecrop it - does anyone have experience of valuing Rye wholecrop for sale out of a silage pit?

Are you sure nobody grows it around here?
You'll know Geordie Barbour (Auchengibbert), they did a fair bit last week going for an AD plant.

There's also someone down the Mull grows it, for same job

 

[Nithsdale]

Are you sure nobody grows it around here?
You'll know Geordie Barbour (Auchengibbert), they did a fair bit last week going for an AD plant.

There's also someone down the Mull grows it, for same job

https://www.facebook.com/619110988231776/posts/1786030201539843

 

[DaveGrohl]

£1 per % of DM. So 35% DM is £35/t.

Higher starch or ME doesn't really make a difference to a buyer who's not wanting to pay any more even though it should. Rye isn't that high in starch as wholecrop anyway. I think that the rest of the plant is better digestibilty than wheat or barley which is why digesters use it.

 

[deleted user 837354]

Ask livestock farmers around what they are prepared to pay? 12t/ha DM, so £1200/ha? £485- which is not far from what it would net you today if you grew a 3 tonne/acre wheat crop.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Long story short - we aimed for Winter Barley and ended up with Rye due a seed mix up - b£$%y seed company .
No-one in our area (SW Scotland) grows rye.
We're about to wholecrop it - does anyone have experience of valuing Rye wholecrop for sale out of a silage pit?

Are you sure no one in SW Scotland grows it? There are digesters in the area who grow it I'm sure. Are you trying to sell it to livestock farmers or digesters or either?