Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[DRC]

Go and buy some 300 hp tractors to power £120k balers and £85k bale chasers then spend a few £100k on sheds another few hundred k on lorry’s and trailers then go out and source the straw in the swath and pay the farmers enough for it to tempt them and deliver the baling and clearance service you promised to them, pay all your wage and diesel bills then sit back for 5 months hoping the price comes right. When you have done that mr silverfox, come back here and use the term “profiteering”.

touched a bloody nerve there!

 

[puntabrava]

touched a bloody nerve there!

The job makes pig farming look easy.

 

[DRC]

The job makes pig farming look easy.

I was actually on your side in the original post, asking , has anyone been profiteering , which as a seller of some straw , I don’t think they have. It’s supply and demand and everyone is entitled to cash in, just like store cattle and lamb sellers are right now.
I wouldn’t fancy having to bale over some of the ruts I’ve seen this year, especially when some combine drivers like to drop the straw in the tram line .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

The job makes pig farming look easy.

If I go bust who do I blame , I suppose I could blame God for sending the rain

 

[d williams]

If I go bust who do I blame , I suppose I could blame God for sending the rain

Yourself for paying too much.!!

 

[Henarar]

I was actually on your side in the original post, asking , has anyone been profiteering , which as a seller of some straw , I don’t think they have. It’s supply and demand and everyone is entitled to cash in, just like store cattle and lamb sellers are right now.
I wouldn’t fancy having to bale over some of the ruts I’ve seen this year, especially when some combine drivers like to drop the straw in the tram line .

store cattle sellers have never cashed in, the price has never been high enough for "cashing in"
why the hell do some combine drivers dump the row down the tram line, they need kicking
hard

 

[Sid]

store cattle sellers have never cashed in, the price has never been high enough for "cashing in"
why the hell do some combine drivers dump the row down the tram line, they need kicking
hard

Because some use them for openings. Straight down one wheeling.

 

[dannewhouse]

store cattle sellers have never cashed in, the price has never been high enough for "cashing in"
why the hell do some combine drivers dump the row down the tram line, they need kicking
hard

RTK, the 12/36m men aim to drop in a tramline, I agree its a pain for baler man, I was baling late 1 night and it was making reel make noise so I held it up on hydraulics a bit.

 

[czechmate]

RTK, the 12/36m men aim to drop in a tramline, I agree its a pain for baler man, I was baling late 1 night and it was making reel make noise so I held it up on hydraulics a bit.

Not so sure the cereal guys in the SW operate with that kind of gear

 

[Henarar]

RTK, the 12/36m men aim to drop in a tramline, I agree its a pain for baler man, I was baling late 1 night and it was making reel make noise so I held it up on hydraulics a bit.

I think this is just the pain in the arse men but then any fool can make an arse up of a job for some other bugger to put right behind them

 

[czechmate]

I think this is just the pain in the arse men but then any fool can make an arse up of a job for some other bugger to put right behind them

Well, and the 12/24 men on controlled traffic. Not much point in a controlled traffic system and having the combine not on the tramlines but then it's generally not especially compatible with removing straw

 

[Derrick Hughes]

These should be compulsory

 

[Surgery]

so What’s your straw worth you surposedily can’t shift worth then ?

 

[dannewhouse]

what about them that strip from 1 end of a field at a slight diagonal to tramlines so you go through them every run!

god these straw baling men are never satisfied haha

what about the combine drivers that accelerate out of every row end so straw trails around in a curve on every headland!!!

 

[Henarar]

some just haven't got any idea how to row up in front of a baler, because that is all a combine is as far as the baling operation is concerned just something to row the straw up with

 

[czechmate]

some just haven't got any idea how to row up in front of a baler, because that is all a combine is as far as the baling operation is concerned just something to row the straw up with

The job of the combine is to harvest grain. The straw just holds the grain off the ground

 

[Henarar]

I will stand by what I said and see what happens
stupid over priced haybob that's all it is

 

[Derrick Hughes]

so What’s your straw worth you surposedily can’t shift worth then ?

I've stopped bringing it in .Be back to £40 ton in 6 weeks

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I've stopped bringing it in .Be back to £40 ton in 6 weeks

When it does send me 100 ton

 

[Surgery]

I've stopped bringing it in .Be back to £40 ton in 6 weeks

Send it my way then , still shifting straw at good money