Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Will 1594]

How much a bale is 4/3 baling ? straw
8 ft bales 450 kg ish
7 ft 6 bales 360 kgs

 

[Newboy2020]

How much a bale is 4/3 baling ? straw
8 ft bales 450 kg ish
7 ft 6 bales 360 kgs

1.5pence per kg is fair

 

[sledgeit]

Round bale hay for sale cattle quality ( Stirling )

 

[lloyd]

Is this going to be the year when the best
hay is off the clock and sets new records?

 

[bobk]

Is this going to be the year when the best
hay is off the clock and sets new records?

I'm predicting a shocking summer

 

[lloyd]

I'm predicting a shocking summer

Winter barley straw off the field might be worth a quid or two.

 

[Skintagain]

Is this going to be the year when the best
hay is off the clock and sets new records?

It has to grow first.

them with little or no stock are laughing as grass that hasn’t been graded yet this year is doing nicely.

 

[Devil's advocate]

It has to grow first.

them with little or no stock are laughing as grass that hasn’t been graded yet this year is doing nicely.

Oh no it isn't.

Plenty of good dairy farmers near me, with very poor growth on silage fields. That is decent land, well farmed, young ryegrass leys, sheep grazed till early Feb (at the latest), slurry, first cut fertiliser compound & nitrogen top dressed.

Winter barley on poorer land was dieing in increasing areas daily (that has stopped getting worse).

Even the brambles new growth is all scorched off with frost damage.

 

[Skintagain]

Oh no it isn't.

Plenty of good dairy farmers near me, with very poor growth on silage fields. That is decent land, well farmed, young ryegrass leys, sheep grazed till early Feb (at the latest), slurry, first cut fertiliser compound & nitrogen top dressed.

Winter barley on poorer land was dieing in increasing areas daily (that has stopped getting worse).

Even the brambles new growth is all scorched off with frost damage.

Most damage has been done with rolls and harrows this year from what I have seen. Those with covers that have left it be have been best off sprinkling some nitro on. Sheep have hurt it after chrimbo this year it just seems to have knocked it as well as the cold and dry.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Most damage has been done with rolls and harrows this year from what I have seen. Those with covers that have left it be have been best off sprinkling some nitro on. Sheep have hurt it after chrimbo this year it just seems to have knocked it as well as the cold and dry.

I don't know of any decent grass crops within miles of me & I'm in real dairy farming country.

I've bits where it is not safe to graze sheep & they need reseeding so much winter kill.

 

[Skintagain]

I don't know of any decent grass crops within miles of me & I'm in real dairy farming country.

I've bits where it is not safe to graze sheep & they need reseeding so much winter kill.

Maybe we aren’t used to much growth yet lol! Down your way they usually would be getting first cut soon I suppose. Nothing gets going much till may in hill billy land so I suppose we are used to brown. Grazed land looks horrendous but untouched land looks a different kettle of fish.

 

[Devil's advocate]

Maybe we aren’t used to much growth yet lol! Down your way they usually would be getting first cut soon I suppose. Nothing gets going much till may in hill billy land so I suppose we are used to brown. Grazed land looks horrendous but untouched land looks a different kettle of fish.

Yes first cut usually starts 10th May, no chance this year maybe 1st June.

My plan was 50 ewes & lambs on 10 acres, then turned into hay field so 50 ewes on 20 acres, eaten all of that now. So feeding swedes to ewes & creep to lambs.

30 hoggs/shearling recently turned onto 9 acre have plenty to go at, newer seeds. Another 20 joining them shortly.

Rain & milder weather soon.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

It is still April folks... just.

I agree it’s not looking overly rosey but the rain is starting now, we’ve had 3 days of good showers. Grass wise it only needs a good May and we will be blown in again. But around here there is a lot of bales still stacked up unsold yet.

Looking a bit different for the corn lads though...

 

[Hfd Cattle]

It is still April folks... just.

I agree it’s not looking overly rosey but the rain is starting now, we’ve had 3 days of good showers. Grass wise it only needs a good May and we will be blown in again. But around here there is a lot of bales still stacked up unsold yet.

Looking a bit different for the corn lads though...

The corn crops are a tale of two halves . Around here there are some very good wheat crops ......and some quite poor ones but this last week has seen a vast improvement in crops. ....we do ,however, need a damp warm May to even things up for the grass .

 

[Poorbuthappy]

It is still April folks... just.

I agree it’s not looking overly rosey but the rain is starting now, we’ve had 3 days of good showers. Grass wise it only needs a good May and we will be blown in again. But around here there is a lot of bales still stacked up unsold yet.

Looking a bit different for the corn lads though...

The cold is more of an issue than the dry. First week of May looks no better on that front.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Hard frost here this morning

 

[7610 super q]

Could get interesting if we don't get rain in the next 3 weeks.

Well, rain forecast for Monday. Our last best chance for any sort of yield this year.

 

[4course]

Well, rain forecast for Monday. Our last best chance for any sort of yield this year.

yield is a great target but more important is output in £s/acre last year was the worst yields / acre here the year before our 2nd best but the worst or the best in terms of margin i.e £s/acre was neither of them

 

[Icon]

Let's hope we get rain and warm weather

 

[P Hughes]

I hope this lot have got it wrong...