Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[DeeGee]

i would take all you have at that price .you to cheap

Just what I was thinking!
Heard some merchants are selling wholesale straw at £4 and hay at £5, always assuming they have any left to sell.

 

[Devil's advocate]

i would take all you have at that price .you to cheap

The one upside is we are getting a decent price for our potatoes. About 6 times the figures that are been quoted on the potato price thread.

 

[mo!]

4ft rounds outside stored wheat straw £18. York.

4ft haylage £24 York.

I've just realised that my post sounds like an ad, it's not, those are the prices at Murton this afternoon in open auction. 50 bales per lot, loaded.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

The one upside is we are getting a decent price for our potatoes. About 6 times the figures that are been quoted on the potato price thread.

I suppose your up against people that do it for even less .we get it here some years .farmers selling hay for £2/bale

 

[Northeastfarmer]

What would very good hay be worth a ton, 6’3” round bales

 

[Devil's advocate]

What would very good hay be worth a ton, 6’3” round bales

I've never bought fodder aiming to be self sufficent. But I do study the market.

So good soft hay for sheep or good coarse timorthy/ryegrass hay for horses. In your part of the world

I would estimate £150 pounds per ton.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I've never bought fodder aiming to be self sufficent. But I do study the market.

So good soft hay for sheep or good coarse timorthy/ryegrass hay for horses. In your part of the world

I would estimate £150 pounds per ton.

Thank you. I normally don’t sell any fodder but I might have a large surplus this year

 

[Devil's advocate]

I suppose your up against people that do it for even less .we get it here some years .farmers selling hay for £2/bale

Yes. Normally we are the dearest place but considered by many to stock the best produce. This year we are the cheapest & many will say put your prices up but it is very tougth dealing with Joe Public who does not follow the market.

Converesly with potatoes last year we were the cheapest, this year we are the dearest & they are selling well.

Cauliflower this week we are buying at £1.10 each & selling at 90 p each & getting abuse from customers for charging so much. But when caulie is 20p each in the markets we are selling at 80p without complaint.

I'm wandering off topic, but trying to explain how retail sometimes works. People will pay a high average, but hate to pay a high price & don't really thank you for dirt cheap.

 

[puntabrava]

Yes. Normally we are the dearest place but considered by many to stock the best produce. This year we are the cheapest & many will say put your prices up but it is very tougth dealing with Joe Public who does not follow the market.

Converesly with potatoes last year we were the cheapest, this year we are the dearest & they are selling well.

Cauliflower this week we are buying at £1.10 each & selling at 90 p each & getting abuse from customers for charging so much. But when caulie is 20p each in the markets we are selling at 80p without complaint.

I'm wandering off topic, but trying to explain how retail sometimes works. People will pay a high average, but hate to pay a high price & don't really thank you for dirt cheap.

Customers need to be of a certain quality as much as the product you are selling them.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Customers need to be of a certain quality as much as the product you are selling them.

We are near Barnsley, posh part but still part of the Socalist Republic of South Yorkshire. One family have not worked for three generations but still get a brand new car (Ford Galaky) on motabilty every 18 months. They are all obese & buy lots of cabbages but as they say "we don't eat this sh!t we live on takeaways this is for the rabbits" which they keep in wheely bins in the garden. This family occupy an entire council estate & have married their neighbouring cousins for generations. The only saving grace is most of them die before they reach 60.

 

[willie waver]

The one upside is we are getting a decent price for our potatoes. About 6 times the figures that are been quoted on the potato price thread.

there's a potato price thread? is there potato versions of guth and sid on there?

 

[Devil's advocate]

there's a potato price thread? is there potato versions of guth and sid on there?

No its boring, very tame. One Scottish grower hopes everyone in the UK starves next year, apart from that same, same.

 

[Henarar]

i would take all you have at that price .you to cheap

or perhaps you to greedy
since you like throwing that accusation around

 

[Derrick Hughes]

or perhaps you to greedy
since you like throwing that accusation around

lets just leave that now

 

[4course]

Strong money

ex farm,not round here its not unless poor quality and im still in the same county

 

[Full of bull(s)]

ex farm,not round here its not unless poor quality and im still in the same county

To be fair though the opposite end of the biggest county in the country!

 

[Henarar]

lets just leave that now

quite happy to if you are on a thread I started with a particular problem we have thanks FT

 

[puntabrava]

or perhaps you to greedy
since you like throwing that accusation around

You could start an argument in an empty room.
For a person who states he buys no straw and sells nothing either I cannot quite understand your fascination with this thread.

 

[Henarar]

You could start an argument in an empty room.
For a person who states he buys no straw and sells nothing either I cannot quite understand your fascination with this thread.

where did I state that
and FT knows why I put that on here so mind your own

 

[Bwcho]

where did I state that
and FT knows why I put that on here so mind your own

You put something on a public forum and it becomes everybody's business.
#justsaying