Selling Hay?

[Flatlander]

There’s a reason she is a new customer,probably burnt her bridges with everyone else she has dealt with.

 

[Farmer_Joe]

I deliver but only full load of 16 ( there 6ft 6 long by 2.5ft wide around 1 ft deep) won’t deliver any less pickup 2 min to be worth hassle, got a few nice regular customers that suits me and them.

 

[RhysT]

Our main business is selling and delivering hay, straw and Haylage big bales and smalls! We spend far too much time on deliveries but if we didn’t deliver we wouldn’t have a viable farm business.
My main priority for my customers is r make sure they order large enough orders, I don’t run about for 1 round bale at all unless just down the road!
And charge delivery. Ours is £10 per trip, upwards if the delivery is a bit further away.

 

[haybob]

sell a fair bit of Hay and Haylage. majority local and most collected off farm. However some one wanted supplying with round hay about 3.5 mile away. Thought take with jeep and trailer half hour job £40 all in... Now she says has to be taken with tractor put on pallet then pushed in a small barn!! More hassle than its worth but was wondering what would be a reasonable price to charge??
said i could drop 13 small bales for £50 as could pop in the van but saying thats to expensive!!
Whats your thoughts?? Have a fair idea what people will say!!

Its your hay to sell, not hers to beg. Name your price or put it on faceache hay and straw group

 

[theboytheboy]

We do free delivery within a few miles of the farm but charge for further.

My mate built a delivery cost calculator on Excell that links to google maps in the background.

You plug in postcodes, varaibles like mpg of your vehicle, fuel price per litre, hourly wage for your labour, number of people per delivery (if handballing), time spent loading/unloading.

Most of the above dont change often, just the postcodes.

It gives you your real delivery cost.

Sounds more complicated than it is.

Happy to share it.

 

[ffukedfarmer]

We do free delivery within a few miles of the farm but charge for further.

My mate built a delivery cost calculator on Excell that links to google maps in the background.

You plug in postcodes, varaibles like mpg of your vehicle, fuel price per litre, hourly wage for your labour, number of people per delivery (if handballing), time spent loading/unloading.

Most of the above dont change often, just the postcodes.

It gives you your real delivery cost.

Sounds more complicated than it is.

Happy to share it.

I’d be interested in having a look, thanks

 

[Hfd Cattle]

And give you a "flash", is it?

If you saw her ....you would ,like me , rather stay in the cab !

 

[Still Farming]

If you saw her ....you would ,like me , rather stay in the cab !

Sod them all together then!

 

[Grassman]

I work out the time it will take to do the delivery. So 1 hrs round trip is £40. This gets worked in to the delivered price over the ex farm price. So if they have 10 bales it adds £4 a bale. If they have 4 bales it adds £10 a bale.

There are far too many farmers who don't cost their time and work for very little.

 

[Grassman]

Be aware that a delivery charge should have vat on it.
Free delivery does not.

 

[7610 super q]

We have sold small bales on Faceache, usually with some hassle, people coming to collect fail to turn up. I don't mind delivering locally, but we had someone outside Shropshire who wanted 40 bales, next time we were passing...I told here we never passed and she offered to pay for the 80 mile or whatever round trip, 50p/mile must have put her off.

Outside county lines always rings alarm bells. Means they've upset every supplier within a 30 mile radius.

 

[roscoe erf]

We do free delivery within a few miles of the farm but charge for further.

My mate built a delivery cost calculator on Excell that links to google maps in the background.

You plug in postcodes, varaibles like mpg of your vehicle, fuel price per litre, hourly wage for your labour, number of people per delivery (if handballing), time spent loading/unloading.

Most of the above dont change often, just the postcodes.

It gives you your real delivery cost.

Sounds more complicated than it is.

Happy to share it.

id be interested to see it

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Be aware that a delivery charge should have vat on it.
Free delivery does not.

Never charged vat on a bar token yet

 

[Fendt65]

Never charged vat on a bar token yet

vat man

 

[theboytheboy]

I’d be interested in having a look, thanks

pm me your email

 

[theboytheboy]

Be aware that a delivery charge should have vat on it.
Free delivery does not.

yes, its amazing how delivery charge adds up and we lose lots of business because of it but I'm not working for free so the hay stays in the barn.

 

[theboytheboy]

id be interested to see it

pm your email if i have it already i cant find it

 

[Still Farming]

Be aware that a delivery charge should have vat on it.
Free delivery does not.

Horse hay vatable too apparently?

 

[Grassman]

Horse hay vatable too apparently?

Nope. Your growing a crop of agricultural produce. What the end user does with it is their business

 

[Will 1594]

We do free delivery within a few miles of the farm but charge for further.

My mate built a delivery cost calculator on Excell that links to google maps in the background.

You plug in postcodes, varaibles like mpg of your vehicle, fuel price per litre, hourly wage for your labour, number of people per delivery (if handballing), time spent loading/unloading.

Most of the above dont change often, just the postcodes.

It gives you your real delivery cost.

Sounds more complicated than it is.

Happy to share it.

so how much would you be on , deliver 10 rounds hay 1st quality and 20 small barley straw , every 2 weeks 39 mile unloaded and paid before you get ropes wrapped up good access