Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Still Farming]

They getting fussy what they take .my mate farms near Ely .said there is wagons coming out daily with rejected bales and have you seen all the top bales advertised they are not taking

Good dry stuff they like.

 

[marshbarn]

looks like everybody will be chopping it all come harvest,, no way to get regular supplies of straw

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Rough cost
£35 an acre lost fert
£2 a bale baling costs ( don’t think it costs me quite that)
@ 8 bales a acre = £16 + 35= £51 / 8 bales = £6.35 a bale
Plus clearing field so £8 covers it .
If I get a tenner then that should give me a bit for hassle and he should be happy then?

I’d say £12

 

[bobk]

It’s an outside stack fyi

 

[Serup]

looks like everybody will be chopping it all come harvest,, no way to get regular supplies of straw

Thats the same everywhere. Sometimes i wish i could rent land just to grow my own straw supply.

 

[Devil's advocate]

But still surprising how slow its drying up .

Never ever known it so dry in Feb. drains running very slowly.

Top dressing winter barley tomorrow on heavy land, I won't leave a mark.

Having said that, the weather can do anything, no one knows beyond 2 weeks (May be weather experts may know a little longer, month at the most)

 

[Devil's advocate]

sellers thinking they are going to get this big money that's been banded about, they may well come unstuck yet depends on the weather, everyone knows 15/20 quid is plenty for a round bale of silage/hay anyway

Always a moaner on here.

Ooh those nasty forage hoarders are going to lose money, oh wonderful.

Yet if it is scarce those who have already sold, are condemded as greedy and causing the shortage.

It is a market, nothing less nothing more. We are all business people, producing a product which we try to sell to make a profit, yeilds go up & down some years crops are lost to weather. The same applies to stock farmers who buy fodder in.

Those who do the job well at either end buying or selling will make the money over an average of 7 years. Those who judge markets badly will fail. Lets face it would be wrong if farming was so good that no one ever failed.

 

[Henarar]

Ooh those nasty forage hoarders are going to lose money, oh wonderful.

that's not very nice

 

[Devil's advocate]

that's not very nice

Its not nice when in a glut year some joker wants to offer £5 each for silage bales.

But if he is the only Man offering a price he is still your best friend.

Sorry Henarar but your hostility to farmers working hard to produce forage has been annoying me for almost 2 years now. It was a drought last year and that is just the roll of the dice, fodder is expensive.

 

[Henarar]

Its not nice when in a glut year some joker wants to offer £5 each for silage bales.

But if he is the only Man offering a price he is still your best friend.

Sorry Henarar but your hostility to farmers working hard to produce forage has been annoying me for almost 2 years now. It was a drought last year and that is just the roll of the dice, fodder is expensive.

I put my point of view you put yours, live with it

 

[bobk]

I put my point of view you put yours, live with it

That's not very nice .

 

[Henarar]

That's not very nice .

why ?

 

[roscoe erf]

 

[gone up the hill]

Okay chill out people

So to move things on from all the bickering, what is your favourite bale shape and size??

 

[Hilly]

Hesston.

 

[Henarar]

Okay chill out people

So to move things on from all the bickering, what is your favourite bale shape and size??

round 4 foot 6 and under 20 quid

 

[Beowulf]

Hesston.

Proper Hesston (120x130) or mini (80x90)?

 

[Hilly]

Proper Hesston (120x130) or mini (80x90)?

Propper 4`x 4` x 8`. I pay a small premium for them as i like them the best.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Heavy and long

 

[livestock 1]

It costs me £15 / bale to make thats without any rent .how do you make it so cheap

Exactly