Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Henarar]

The chap that came to me must have been 70 , 25 years ago. Pulled it with a big Massey ? and his wife followed him around in a car.

That would have been my Dad, sadly he only made it to 65 then I took on doing the strip seeding for a couple years but it was getting worn and unreliable, Mum and Dad would milk the cows then go on down drilling for the day then come back and milk them again or I would go if I wasn't busy lime spreading, leave the tractor and drill down there and go from place to place each day depending what Paul had sorted to do.
Would have been a either a 3080, 3085 or 6160 on the drill.
probably got your name and address in our strip seeding book I think its still about somewhere , small world isn't it

 

[balerman]

Something is wrong with either your combine/ the crop ( or both ) this year at this stage in the harvest if you are thrashing the straw to pieces to get the awns off!

Balancing act at the end of the day, straw quality V the awns and you would rather have a clean grain sample which is fair enough.

Winter barley is notoriously hard to thrash especially in a dry spell,could really do with another wet/dry cycle here.Straw yields are nothing special round here,1.5t/acre the best of it.

 

[Sid]

We had a Hunters strip seeder

is that the one with like rotorvators on it?

 

[Skintagain]

That would have been my Dad, sadly he only made it to 65 then I took on doing the strip seeding for a couple years but it was getting worn and unreliable, Mum and Dad would milk the cows then go on down drilling for the day then come back and milk them again or I would go if I wasn't busy lime spreading, leave the tractor and drill down there and go from place to place each day depending what Paul had sorted to do.
Would have been a either a 3080, 3085 or 6160 on the drill.
probably got your name and address in our strip seeding book I think its still about somewhere , small world isn't it

Lovely post

 

[Werzle]

Lovely round bale hay posted on fb this morning in herefordshire £13.50/bale

 

[Dextersg]

Lovely round bale hay posted on fb this morning in herefordshire £13.50/bale

Can you make it for that

 

[Estate fencing.]

Can you make it for that

Probably not. I’ve just costed my six stringers 120x70 I think for £19 bale after I’ve paid contractors for the lot.

 

[Werzle]

Can you make it for that

On your own ground with your own kit yes, i suppose if you have filled the barns and want a quick sale off the field in a buyers market you have to price it accordingly. When in farming does the cost of making/breeding/growing something had anything to do with what you can get for it! Supply and demand rules.

 

[Henarar]

is that the one with like rotorvators on it?

Yes, each pair of rotors was mounted on an individual head so they could follow the ground contours and keep the depth correct

 

[Sid]

Yes, each pair of rotors was mounted on an individual head so they could follow the ground contours and keep the depth correct

Came and did some for us 20 years ago.
Stiched some red into grassland..

 

[Henarar]

Came and did some for us 20 years ago.
Stiched some red into grassland..

Dad may well have done but I don't remember going to molton myself but may have done, he went bloody miles with it, got as far as Plymouth, past okehampton, nearly to barnstaple, up nearly to Bristol, Salisbury.
North wyke wanted him to go to Brighton but even Dad drew the line somewhere

 

[Dextersg]

Probably not. I’ve just costed my six stringers 120x70 I think for £19 bale after I’ve paid contractors for the lot.

Farm has its own kit but still needs to be paid for, have got all the silage, haylage and hay we need but still got another 30 acres left to cut yet but not sure what. Have never been into August before trying to make any more hay

 

[Skintagain]

Farm has its own kit but still needs to be paid for, have got all the silage, haylage and hay we need but still got another 30 acres left to cut yet but not sure what. Have never been into August before trying to make any more hay

Christ we have been at it third week of September four year ago

of you don’t need it I would just turn some stock into it

 

[Dextersg]

Christ we have been at it third week of September four year ago

of you don’t need it I would just turn some stock into it

 

[Dextersg]

Any tips in hay making in August if we get the weather

 

[Skintagain]

Any tips in hay making in August if we get the weather

Accept that dew is about longer. Turn before dark instead of trying to rush out in a morning.

will bale a lot greener later in the year as there will likely be some dead in it to soak up some moisture/sweat
Bale headlands as Haylage etc
Leave wet patches - bale damp fields as Haylage

leave bits under trees/hedgesun cut

 

[bobk]

Lovely round bale hay posted on fb this morning in herefordshire £13.50/bale

They want buying

 

[Dextersg]

Accept that dew is about longer. Turn before dark instead of trying to rush out in a morning.

will bale a lot greener later in the year as there will likely be some dead in it to soak up some moisture/sweat
Bale headlands as Haylage etc
Leave wet patches - bale damp fields as Haylage

leave bits under trees/hedgesun cut

Nice one

 

[ffukedfarmer]

It’s going to be a struggle to get it all in here in the South East unless we get a prolonged settled spell or Indian summer.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Any tips in hay making in August if we get the weather

It’ll be hay stood up so won’t take much making