Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[d williams]

Hay delivered between £88.50 and £90 ton..

That be cow hay ? Not sheep hay

 

[puntabrava]

Im not surprised you have lost customers with your attitude.

A 100 acre farmer could be using 10x times as much straw as a 500 acre farmer!

Dumped not lost, overly fussy, slow paying, slow to unload. Who needs it.

 

[puntabrava]

Big head

Lurch

 

[Henarar]

The big farmers are welcome to your overpriced straw best of luck to you and them

 

[gone up the hill]

That be cow hay ? Not sheep hay

One lot was fine for sheep, the other lot would have been borderline for sheep imo.

Very little demand for hay/ silage down here!

 

[Devil's advocate]

Networking to messers and 100 acre farmers, he can keep them, any I have picked up inadvertently I dropped, waste of time.

What a strange attitude. I wrap small bales up in builders bags & put them in the boot of little estate cars & SUV's for what at the moment is the standard market price.

Odd how I was trolled on TFF a few years ago, when I bought a new combine on a small farm, because that is how I had paid for the machine.

 

[puntabrava]

What a strange attitude. I wrap small bales up in builders bags & put them in the boot of little estate cars & SUV's for what at the moment is the standard market price.

Odd how I was trolled on TFF a few years ago, when I bought a new combine on a small farm, because that is how I had paid for the machine.

Not odd at all, you are happy doing your thing and I am happy doing mine. Try wrapping 7k ton in builders bags tho.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Not odd at all, you are happy doing your thing and I am happy doing mine. Try wrapping 7k ton in builders bags tho.

I admit it would be hard to sell 7,000 ton retail but if I had the customers. I could organise it. But I'm just as polite to the Man who wants a paper bag filling with loose straw for his dog, as I am to customers who buy 2,000 bales.

 

[puntabrava]

I admit it would be hard to sell 7,000 ton retail but if I had the customers. I could organise it. But I'm just as polite to the Man who wants a paper bag filling with loose straw for his dog, as I am to customers who buy 2,000 bales.

I am polite and treat people how they treat me but I have had enough bad experiences with small farmers that I am finished with them. I have solely earnt a living from farmers for 30 years odd now and can only speak as you find.

 

[Henarar]

I am polite and treat people how they treat me but I have had enough bad experiences with small farmers that I am finished with them. I have solely earnt a living from farmers for 30 years odd now and can only speak as you find.

Why don't you put big farmers only in your AD then

 

[puntabrava]

Why don't you put big farmers only in your AD then

I can weed them out in a one minute hands free phone conversation, I would only supply one in 20 phone calls.

 

[Henarar]

I can weed them out in a one minute hands free phone conversation, I would only supply one in 20 phone calls.

It would save them ringing such an important chap as you in the first place

 

[puntabrava]

It would save them ringing such an important chap as you in the first place

Not important at all just business minded, if I’m getting up at 3.30am I don’t like to waste time, I want to get home to be with my family.

 

[fastfish]

Well that straw wasn't cheap yesterday I can tell you!

Very good marketing by the dealer actually, park in the yard, leave his num on the lorry on cards you can take away and if it doesn't sell then no doubt people will call him up after the sale.

Not only that but good networking pre and post sale.

No collapse quite yet then

 

[Henarar]

Not important at all just business minded, if I’m getting up at 3.30am I don’t like to waste time, I want to get home to be with my family.

Well they wouldnt bother a busy chap like you then if you said in the ad that you don't want their custom

 

[Henarar]

Anyway you best get some sleep
Wouldn't want you to be late
Night night

 

[puntabrava]

Well they wouldnt bother a busy chap like you then if you said in the ad that you don't want their custom

I’m not busy, I’m only driving, even the straw chopper tractor has a hands free kit. Did I mention that I have a hundred pedigrees here as a hobby? You have no idea what working is bloke, keep posting to me.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Ok, so....
Sedgemoor straw prices as I wrote them down - correct afaik

Straw, delivered price first 25m +£1/mile over as explained above.
Barley £128 - £130
Wheat £108 - £114
Wheat quads class 2200 baler £33/bale

Collected prices -
Round wheat straw - £23/bale
£16 - not sold (the only straw lot not sold afaik)
Round Barley straw - £15 - see my post above ref some ambiguity as to whether barn stored.

200 conventional bales wheat - £2/bale.

Guth did you take notice of the bale size on that last load of unlotted hay? Small bales - looked similar to the old D1000 - maybe 80x50? I wrote down £30.50 /bale for that which could be fairly dear if the bales were what I thought they were?

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Well after reading the last few pages, and speaking to various dealers over the last week or 2, and going to Sedgemoor on Saturday, I'm happy to continue with my usual dealer supplier who is both reliable and consistent in the quality he brings.

I may miss the odd bargain at auction, but I won't be wasting a lot of time running the roads. Each to their own

 

[Henarar]

I’m not busy, I’m only driving, even the straw chopper tractor has a hands free kit. Did I mention that I have a hundred pedigrees here as a hobby? You have no idea what working is bloke, keep posting to me.

quite right, me I have an easy life and quite happy with it