Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[texelburger]

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've seen it myself,mixed Welsh farm buying straw ,via dealer,from the East.Now has blackgrass on his arable ground.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Any market for some nice hay at the moment. 8ft square bales ( 4 string), or best left in barn until winter.

Which winter?
If you can get money for it now I would take it as I doubt it will be worth any more in the winter.
Every man and his dog has so much grass and if the weather becomes kind every barn will be full.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I've seen it myself,mixed Welsh farm buying straw ,via dealer,from the East.Now has blackheads on his arable ground.

I've seen arable fields near Oxford nothing but Blackgrass , stop trying to makeit out as a problem from the East . You Hereford men will try anything to hike up your straw [emoji1787]

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Back to Annual Meadow grass . That's a livestock farmers Blackgrass

 

[Northern territory]

Which winter?
If you can get money for it now I would take it as I doubt it will be worth any more in the winter.
Every man and his dog has so much grass and if the weather becomes kind every barn will be full.

We haven’t had the rain up north that you have had in Kent. Straw looks promising but wouldn’t say grass is miles better than other years.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Kent took all the hay last year and made it dear

 

[Sid]

Back to Annual Meadow grass . That's a livestock farmers Blackgrass

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Quality grass being raked today

Really?

 

[goodevans]

Regarding unwanted stuff coming in with straw. Direct drilled a field last autumn after mucking it and creating some tilth with harrows. Looked good and green all spring and was very pleased with it until recently.
It's covered with what we think is sterile brome which must have come in straw. The field hasn't been ploughed or grown corn for over 30 years View attachment 968697

That is brome,we have had it in our mowing fields spread from arable,next year you will see it in rows where the mower conditioner has thrashed the seeds out to the extent the fields need re seeding,sorry you probably didnt want to hear that

 

[puntabrava]

I've seen farmers bale that and sell it as meadow hay

That’s an April or May photo of an arable field cropped with wheat the year before that was contract farmed by the brother of the man you would deal with up towards Oxford . My dairy farmer bought the land that year and took him two years to sort out the mess across 200 acres

 

[Aspiring Peasants]

That is brome,we have had it in our mowing fields spread from arable,next year you will see it in rows where the mower conditioner has thrashed the seeds out to the extent the fields need re seeding,sorry you probably didnt want to hear that

I've cut it and baled it hopefully before much seed has shed. Will it grow back again this year?
I've been told the only way to get rid of it is to graze it for 2 or 3 years.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Sold a load of silage bales off field yesterday morning. £33 a bale ......unfortunately he only wanted 10 .....won't see it that price again for a while !

 

[goodevans]

I've cut it and baled it hopefully before much seed has shed. Will it grow back again this year?
I've been told the only way to get rid of it is to graze it for 2 or 3 years.

We first noticed it getting worse after mowing,I think you are right grazing is the answer and not let it seed

 

[lloyd]

Sold a load of silage bales off field yesterday morning. £33 a bale ......unfortunately he only wanted 10 .....won't see it that price again for a while !

Was that to Guth?

 

[DieselRob]

Can anyone put a value on big bale wheat straw? Got a couple of trailer load I can sell now I know what I need for myself through to harvest

 

[lloyd]

I've seen arable fields near Oxford nothing but Blackgrass , stop trying to makeit out as a problem from the East . You Hereford men will try anything to hike up your straw [emoji1787]

Well I didn't even quote Oxford or its adjoining counties but now you mention it.

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

We haven’t had the rain up north that you have had in Kent. Straw looks promising but wouldn’t say grass is miles better than other years.

Plenty of grass in the areas which don't normally grow so much, all of the South and East has had loads of rain and there is a lot less stock in these areas so I would say there will be plenty of surplus grass. Our silage cuts are 3 x more than last year on first cut and second cut looks to be as much.
As Derrick said this area took hundreds of tons last year which came from all over the place. Straw went west and hay came back.

 

[fieldfarmer]

That is brome,we have had it in our mowing fields spread from arable,next year you will see it in rows where the mower conditioner has thrashed the seeds out to the extent the fields need re seeding,sorry you probably didnt want to hear that

Yes that's Brome, and very probably came in with the straw, but that won't sit well, so lets just call it amg, a livestock's farm problem. Edit, to say very probably not sterile.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Can anyone put a value on big bale wheat straw? Got a couple of trailer load I can sell now I know what I need for myself through to harvest

Last load I bought was £140 delivered. That’s too Cheshire from Nottinghamshire

 

[puntabrava]

Field of spring oats by M1 at Luton flat across Half of it this morning.

 

[RmfJ]

Regarding unwanted stuff coming in with straw. Direct drilled a field last autumn after mucking it and creating some tilth with harrows. Looked good and green all spring and was very pleased with it until recently.
It's covered with what we think is sterile brome which must have come in straw. The field hasn't been ploughed or grown corn for over 30 years View attachment 968697

That’s meadow brome