Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[harperfarmer]

Whats the cost of sewage sludge or digestate as a fertiliser?

Other sources bar the bag?

Sewage sludge here £65/ha delivered and spread. Goes on @ 20-25t/ha.

 

[Sid]

Sewage sludge here £65/ha delivered and spread. Goes on @ 20-25t/ha.

What does that deliver to the plant for that season?
Does it have to be ploughed in or do you incorporate it by another means?

 

[jondear]

Just my 2ps worth.
Farmers seeing empty sheds and thinking I ain't going to get caught with buying expensive straw into the new year let's fill the shed now.......but on the other hand the weather isn't settled, they keep saying there is high pressure coming, but so is Christmas!

Yes but who's combining in June .!
Obviously to much money in some farmers pockets .
Some just like taking straw off fields and the work involved .

 

[Henarar]

Yes but who's combining in June .!
Obviously to much money in some farmers pockets .
Some just like taking straw off fields and the work involved .

which is best can depend on your system in the winter, standing straw gives you the option to round bale that you don't so often get with delivered , with our set up they are much easier to use in the winter and I think they save straw as opposed to square bales, even when I had a square baler as well as a round baler I would bale straw for home use in rounds

 

[Surgery]

Well looks like agrilink family members involved in baling straw this summer over the country advertising £20-25 a bale , they bale it too , someone know any more ?

 

[fieldfarmer]

It’s not going to be a arable farmers year this year

If they're getting over£100 / acre for straw and forward sold some wheat at £185, I think they could be on for a very good year.

 

[puntabrava]

Thats not a good crop

Yes I know it isn’t for Devon Somerset but everything I have seen has suffered the wet winter. What does it cost to bale and haul say 10 miles? Would be interesting to see how people price that .

 

[Sid]

Yes I know it isn’t for Devon Somerset but everything I have seen has suffered the wet winter. What does it cost to bale and haul say 10 miles? Would be interesting to see how people price that .

Once loaded,strapped and trucking the difference between 10 or 20 miles is negligible

 

[7610 super q]

Prices quoted so far look reasonable...for both sides. Early days yet. I know.

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Once loaded,strapped and trucking the difference between 10 or 20 miles is negligible

Until you meet all the holiday makers who can't reverse 2 miles is too far then ! You are right though once loaded and strapped about distance .

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Prices quoted so far look reasonable...for both sides. Early days yet. I know.

Father used to say ....."got to get it baled yet boy"

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Yes I know it isn’t for Devon Somerset but everything I have seen has suffered the wet winter. What does it cost to bale and haul say 10 miles? Would be interesting to see how people price that .

I always used to think about £1.50 to £2 to get a bale home from the field .......don't ask me how I came to that conclusion .......cos I don't know

 

[Henarar]

Yes I know it isn’t for Devon Somerset but everything I have seen has suffered the wet winter. What does it cost to bale and haul say 10 miles? Would be interesting to see how people price that .

I know what it costs me to bale and get straw back here from where I get it charging myself the same contractors price I charge other people but I am not about to put the costings on TFF,
learnt that was a bad idea when I put actually costings of some hay I made at under 10 quid a bale on here again using contracting charges just to get them ripped to shreds by folk with an interest in making it sound like it costs more than it needs to.

 

[som farmer]

Until you meet all the holiday makers who can't reverse
correct my earlier post to, buy it after the tourist season

 

[puntabrava]

I know what it costs me to bale and get straw back here from where I get it charging myself the same contractors price I charge other people but I am not about to put the costings on TFF,
learnt that was a bad idea when I put actually costings of some hay I made at under 10 quid a bale on here again using contracting charges just to get them ripped to shreds by folk with an interest in making it sound like it costs more than it needs to.

Yes, the joys
I would think that there should be a huge variation in peoples costs, even down to do you have a good loader tractor to put on bale trailer and load and haul in one or need to too and fro with a telehandler alongside the hauling tractors.

 

[Sid]

I always used to think about £1.50 to £2 to get a bale home from the field .......don't ask me how I came to that conclusion .......cos I don't know

Have to properly cost at contractor rates for baling and hauling otherwise your just a busy fool.

 

[Henarar]

Have to properly cost at contractor rates for baling and hauling otherwise your just a busy fool.

Yep but as above if I cost myself at the same price as for contracting then really its over pricing the job as I do make a quid or two from contracting,
So that hay was cheaper still

 

[Poorbuthappy]

Have to properly cost at contractor rates for baling and hauling otherwise your just a busy fool.

True, but don't forget you should be making profit at contractor rates. Bare that in mind when calculating profitability of an enterprise - if you've already made profit on providing the inputs, silage, straw, etc - that's adding to the overall profit of the enterprise.

Edit : H got there before me.

 

[roscoe erf]

If they're getting over£100 / acre for straw and forward sold some wheat at £185, I think they could be on for a very good year.

This is a straw price tracker hard to believe I know so I’m on about the straw season a d I stand by what I said

 

[Anymulewilldo]

It’s not going to be a arable farmers year this year

It is for those who forward sold a % of crop and sell their straw standing by the look of it!