Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[fieldfarmer]

So what are
you charging then

Good question, he will quote what he buys for in the Eastern county's but not delivered to the sw,.

 

[fieldfarmer]

Was told by a friend to night that he had been quoted £200 for barley old season for now delivery and will be. £120 new season............

Just thinking out, but the standing straw guys at their £100 to £127 acre yesterday at Exeter would be around £60 to £80 per ton before baling and haulage.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

So what are
you charging then

145 to 150 for last few loads , new crop should be less than £100 but that's only for my regulars , not fussed about any more work

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Just thinking out, but the standing straw guys at their £100 to £127 acre yesterday at Exeter would be around £60 to £80 per ton before baling and haulage.

Not at guth's predicted yields -

You would not really want to allow any more than 1 or 1.25 ton acre really when buying standing straw in this part of the world as once you take out the wet spots/ small corners/ deep ruts so the header stays high it can soon affect yield.

 

[fieldfarmer]

Not at guth's predicted yields -

Ha, ha, good old guth, I did not walk the crops in question so he might be right, I can only go by my crops, and those I spray, and those I have walked here in mid Devon and 1.5 to 2 ton looks achievable in wheat and barely. One dealer has been on the phone booking loads, plenty up country but they want a lot more for it than last year and haulage isn't cheap.

 

[Sid]

Ha, ha, good old guth, I did not walk the crops in question so he might be right, I can only go by my crops, and those I spray, and those I have walked here in mid Devon and 1.5 to 2 ton looks achievable in wheat and barely. One dealer has been on the phone booking loads, plenty up country but they want a lot more for it than last year and haulage isn't cheap.

I saw a cracking field of winter Barley this week, you could have nearly walked on the ears.
If a field has wet corners, ruts etc you make allowances when bidding don't you?

 

[Henarar]

Not at guth's predicted yields -

Thats what makes all the difference.
I once bought the most expencive lot per acre in GTH's auction but I bet it wasnt the most expencive straw, loads of bales

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Thats what makes all the difference.
I once bought the most expencive lot per acre in GTH's auction but I bet it wasnt the most expencive straw, loads of bales

Would you pay full price for a tractor that's in bits in a box

 

[Henarar]

Would you pay full price for a tractor that's in bits in a box

Well no, would you?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

That's why I don't buy straw that's not bales

 

[lloyd]

Exeter standing straw sale today...

Trade well UP on last year!

Winter Barley anything from £96 to £125 acre with most lots at the higher end of this price range.

Winter Wheat anything from £96 to £127 acre, plenty of lots £110-£122/23 acre!

Winter oats £84 to £104 acre.

One lot of wheat at £75 but no idea what the issue with it was and the same with another field of wheat at £91 acre.

A few new bidders not seen before plus normal buyers who are prepared to go a lot further away for standing straw this year.

Perhaps it was the 'everyone you spoke to who said it would be well back'
bidding against you.

 

[lloyd]

That's why I don't buy straw that's not bales

Is that so they can hide the black grass?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I have been hauling straw for 40 years and I have never had a Welsh Livestock Farmer even mention black grass ,

 

[lloyd]

I have been hauling straw for 40 years and I have never had a Welsh Livestock Farmer even mention black grass ,

Everywhere out East ,should be restricted movement of
straw from such areas .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Everywhere out East ,should be restricted movement of
straw from such areas .

It won't survive on an all livstock grass farm in Wales. It needs to seed to survive in case you did not know

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Quote from Sam Bass
Don't ever trust anyone's brains but your own [emoji23]

 

[lloyd]

It won't survive on an all livstock grass farm in Wales. It needs to seed to survive in case you did not know

Plenty of mixed units on the Welsh border had to buy extra
straw as they were short and the muck goes back on their arable ground.
The straw is used for bedding and the seeds could be in the straw.

 

[fieldfarmer]

It won't survive on an all livstock grass farm in Wales. It needs to seed to survive in case you did not know

Are you saying if the muck containing black grass is spread on a grass field it won't servive if it does not set a seed head its self? So your suggesting cutting or grazing will kill it?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Plenty of mixed units on the Welsh border had to buy extra
straw as they were short and the muck goes back on their arable ground.
The straw is used for bedding and the seeds could be in the straw.

I don't sell any where near the Welsh Borders but If a farm grows a fair bit of corn they he would be mad to buy in straw from anywhere , I know arable farmers who won't let a baler on the place unless it steam cleaned first

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Are you saying if the muck containing black grass is spread on a grass field it won't servive if it does not set a seed head its self? So your suggesting cutting or grazing will kill it?

Yes
But there could be active seed in the soil when they next grow a crop