Sounds like they were 2 years ( or more ) old.
That wasn't mentioned.
2017 meadow grass, was dry but looked and smelled fine
Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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2017 meadow grass, was dry but looked and smelled fine
- Location
- Ceredigion
What was the quad hay like
the stuff that made 44 quid was lovely stuff but the price could have been slightly over egged as the vendor was donating a % of the selling price to charity
the other lot was on farm so I didn't see it
cattleman123
Member
- Location
- devon
Great gesture..
the chaps from GTH that done the charity bike ride needed a few more quid to get to 5 grand or at least I think that's what it was
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Are you doing a market report or is guth...someone said store lambs not quite as dear...?
- Location
- Ceredigion
Any idea on weight
not sure
I only seen a few sold and thought they were making more
cattle seemed the same story, quality selling ok but plenty of bargains, buyers market if you have the feed
bosses son
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Sorry to be controversial but straw at the highs that we have seen last couple of years is just not sustainable to the livestock guys. Surely £12/£14 a 4x4 bale is fair to both sides. If these prices continue we will see a lot of stock reductions and some growing cereals for themselves. Thats not going to be good for our future grain prices.
Hmmm.........fairness gets mentioned a lot in high price years......don't remember it used much in 2014/15 when the price was on the floor. I'm prepared to accept the laws of supply and demand, but thanks to NFU meddling we've got stacks of straw with no bids at sales now. Gee thanks NFU......
As for growing it yourself, try it. In places like Crapweathershire with wet harvests the norm, a couple of years of soggy grain, and rows of wet straw to sort out, maybe paying £100 ton for straw might seem cheap.
I have to admit that i was calling for power stations to stop burning straw and for the arable boys to stop chopping it too but it has left many with rotting stacks on headlands and knackered next years standing straw trade. Its been a lesson in what happens when you meddle with supply and demand.
- Location
- Ceredigion
Supply and demand does not work with straw
Along with that its impossible to predict what demand is
Will Ireland want masses of straw next year for instance
load it on a lorry and take it down to sedge it still seemed to be selling well enough to me
whats the problem ?
Sold it at harvest. Phew. It's next year I'm worried about.
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
Completely unsustainable been bedding down fatting cattle trying to keep them clean...and trying it is...costing £4 quid a beast a week and if I was more generous it would soon be a fiver....how the hell can that pay
cattleman123
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- Location
- devon
God man lets get through this year 1st...some people...Sold it at harvest. Phew. It's next year I'm worried about.
not sure who they think they are going to sell their straw and hay and grain to when all the cattle farmers have given it up for a bad job
there HAS to be a bit for everyone or the job won't be done long term,
yes the dairy boys will pay at the moment but when the arse falls out of that job again which it will they won't be quite so happy to wave their hands about
if the subs go altogether so the farmers haven't got that to dip in to of a hard time the job will completely different, even those that moan they missed out on the subs have been benefiting from them