Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Chrisw]

Can anyone share what they are selling barley straw in square bales loaded x field in mid Devon for? Getting one / two new people a day chasing straw down here but want to be fair to all the long term buyers but my straw yields are well down so price will have to go up. thanks.

Prices around here are £110/ton baled and loaded ex field for barley straw. Devon Cornwall border

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Can anyone share what they are selling barley straw in square bales loaded x field in mid Devon for? Getting one / two new people a day chasing straw down here but want to be fair to all the long term buyers but my straw yields are well down so price will have to go up. thanks.

Price up here is 90 to 110 deliverd so take a bit off that for their time and transport i would think

 

[fieldfarmer]

Price up here is 90 to 110 deliverd so take a bit off that for their time and transport i would think

Are you saying you will deliver to mid Devon for 90 to 110 so I can sell it on down here because if not the price you gave has no reflection to the question asked.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

No i dint deliver to Devon but cant see why it shoukd be any more than that
Why should it be any dearer in Pembroke shre than Devon .thats a question im inreested.for your reference is £65 loaded in Hampshire if you want to get a haulage rate

 

[Derrick Hughes]

It was like this in 76. I was just sitting here thinking .how the hell did we mannage .we had a large herd of cows at the time
Well for one thing we did not have social media constantly driving up prices
But what saved us was the kind dontations of straw from east coast farmers . Giving straw away for the taking . Farmer helping farmer in the time of need
Any way sorry to detract . Back to the wheel of fortune

 

[Squiz449]

It was like this in 76. I was just sitting here thinking .how the hell did we mannage .we had a large herd of cows at the time
Well for one thing we did not have social media constantly driving up prices
But what saved us was the kind dontations of straw from east coast farmers . Giving straw away for the taking . Farmer helping farmer in the time of need
Any way sorry to detract . Back to the wheel of fortune

I’m sure the same would happen if things got really bad [emoji848]

 

[czechmate]

I’m sure the same would happen if things got really bad [emoji848]

Not a chance.
Dog eat dog these days.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I’m sure the same would happen if things got really bad [emoji848]

Afraid not . The greed in the forage buisness its deeply rooted . Just offered a 1000 quadrant barley @£60 ton but dont tell anyone it may spoil theit supper

 

[gone up the hill]

Can anyone share what they are selling barley straw in square bales loaded x field in mid Devon for? Getting one / two new people a day chasing straw down here but want to be fair to all the long term buyers but my straw yields are well down so price will have to go up. thanks.

Needs to be circa £100 ton.

 

[d williams]

No i dint deliver to Devon but cant see why it shoukd be any more than that
Why should it be any dearer in Pembroke shre than Devon .thats a question im inreested.for your reference is £65 loaded in Hampshire if you want to get a haulage rate

How much a ton to junction 35 m4 turn lorry around as quick as he can put his straps away

 

[puntabrava]

No i dint deliver to Devon but cant see why it shoukd be any more than that
Why should it be any dearer in Pembroke shre than Devon .thats a question im inreested.

No desperate hauliers looking for a backload after hauling Welsh steel to the metropolis construction projects. Your lorry’s work on diesel money to get home, you cannot get better than that.

 

[bovrill]

No desperate hauliers looking for a backload after hauling Welsh steel to the metropolis construction projects. Your lorry’s work on diesel money to get home, you cannot get better than that.

it's never quite that simple. if a lorry tips steel at Dagenham or Basildon, he'll have another hour plus to get out to me. I can load out of the shed with mini Hesstons in about an hour, but then there'll be another hour to add for turning around, finishing strapping up, doing the paperwork.... A few minutes here and a few minutes there soon add up. Then there's another hour heading west before he gets back to where he started four hours ago.
Then you take into account there's only 3/4 of a load compared with a lorry and drag, the extra diesel for being loaded, the risk of VOSA taking an interest en route, and it soon all adds up.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Needs to be circa £100 ton.

So whats straw deliverd down there ?

 

[roscoe erf]

How much a ton to junction 35 m4 turn lorry around as quick as he can put his straps away

under that bridge again

 

[cornishfarmer]

So whats straw deliverd down there ?

Talking about £115/£120. But our local merchants rip us off

 

[puntabrava]

it's never quite that simple. if a lorry tips steel at Dagenham or Basildon, he'll have another hour plus to get out to me. I can load out of the shed with mini Hesstons in about an hour, but then there'll be another hour to add for turning around, finishing strapping up, doing the paperwork.... A few minutes here and a few minutes there soon add up. Then there's another hour heading west before he gets back to where he started four hours ago.
Then you take into account there's only 3/4 of a load compared with a lorry and drag, the extra diesel for being loaded, the risk of VOSA taking an interest en route, and it soon all adds up.

Derrick may take straw from you but he has many others just a slight deviation off the M4, you guys beyond London are useful in a poor year but in a year of plenty you would need to be a fair bit cheaper than M4 corridor.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Derrick may take straw from you but he has many others just a slight deviation off the M4, you guys beyond London are useful in a poor year but in a year of plenty you would need to be a fair bit cheaper than M4 corridor.

If i could get eough wagons i woukd take every bale from Essex and Kent . Farmers over there will look after you and see you right
But then i do have some good friends up the m4 that look afrer me as well

 

[Iben]

But what saved us was the kind dontations of straw from east coast farmers . Giving straw away for the taking . Farmer helping farmer in the time of need

Do you ever think it would be reciprocated?

Many potato growers have had a terrible year, and yet all spring the stock farmers have been pushing the price of Stockfeed potatoes down and down. Had several calls only a month ago wanting the stuff for free, but only after they have gone over a grader and any earth and stones removed.

Certainly not what I call as charitable or concerned for a fellow farmer. So I haven't got the slightest bit of guilt charging top price for straw this year.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Do you ever think it would be reciprocated?

Many potato growers have had a terrible year, and yet all spring the stock farmers have been pushing the price of Stockfeed potatoes down and down. Had several calls only a month ago wanting the stuff for free, but only after they have gone over a grader and any earth and stones removed.

Certainly not what I call as charitable or concerned for a fellow farmer. So I haven't got the slightest bit of guilt charging top price for straw this year.

Thats fair enough but if this weather carries on herds may have to be slaughtered, you cant realy compair tjat to the price of stockfeed spuds

 

[sidjon]

So whats straw deliverd down there ?

We've ordered ours at £120 winter barley,should be here this week.