Seed shortage

[Good stuff]

Will they be a shortage of new wheat etc seed this harvest/ autumn . Should new seed be booked now ,had any prices ?

 

[Chae1]

Will be plenty carry over I imagine.

Lots of acres not sown.

The trade will create a story about shortages no doubt.

 

[Good stuff]

Will be plenty carry over I imagine.

Lots of acres not sown.

The trade will create a story about shortages no doubt.

Yes trade are saying they will be a shortage

 

[David.]

If everyone's grain stores are still bursting with near worthless crops, as we are led to believe, I should have thought there will be plenty of farm saved seed.

 

[Good stuff]

It's seed crops in the ground now for new seed this autumn which are short they say

 

[crashbox]

Will be plenty carry over I imagine.

Lots of acres not sown.

The trade will create a story about shortages no doubt.

And less demand due to SFI options, maybe

 

[teslacoils]

Got last year's in the shed, so am sorted.

 

[David.]

It's seed crops in the ground now for new seed this autumn which are short they say

We'll just have to wait another year to benefit from the unbridled prosperity that new varieties always bring, then.

 

[zero]

It's seed crops in the ground now for new seed this autumn which are short they say

More like a shortage of buyers for seed with all the ground thats going into sfi. Don't let the merchant talk the price up. Most folks will have enough grain in sheds to farm save the seed they need.

 

[Good stuff]

We'll just have to wait another year to benefit from the unbridled prosperity that new varieties always bring, then.

It's all varieties of seed crops I'm told

 

[warksfarmer]

Will they be a shortage of new wheat etc seed this harvest/ autumn . Should new seed be booked now ,had any prices ?

No but the trade will make stories up between them to create one to hike the prices. Just sow it out of your own shed and save yourself thousands of pounds and leave the trade to their own devices. They've sold less fert and chems this year because of the weather and now pushing stupidly expensive stewardship seeds to try and cover themselves.

 

[Brisel]

Does the area of farm saved seed vary much each year? Not all farms are set up to home save. I doubt it will make much difference this year. Home savers will probably be in the same situation as the certified seed users.

I doubt there will be a huge shortage - the growers of seed tend to be on the kind of land that supports roots and long rotations to get a good break from cereals. They will have mostly got drilled up eventually. I suspect the seed trade is nervous of lower sales due to the weather, carry over stock, changed rotations caused by later harvests and SFI. Frankly, I'd be more nervous if I was selling autumn sown combinable break crop seed as those are the most vulnerable to SFI right now IMO.

Why else would the trade be pushing autumn seed sales now?? Falling commodity prices that underpin the base price for seed agreed with the seed growers not hedged by forward seed sales on the books?

 

[bankrupt]

Why else would the trade be pushing autumn seed sales now??

So they don't get complaints from customers with 23L/23H labels instead of 24L/24H.

 

[lloyd]

No!