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[gone up the hill]

You need to understand that a Devon arable farmers thinking is very different to a 4000 acre man up this way and beyond.

If any arable farmer thinks that the harvest is a write off ( and straw trader as well ) on the last day of July in the UK then they really need to get a career change!

Harvest is far from a write off at this time, weather could turn overnight in 10 days time, we get a 2 week heatwave and the combines will be going left right and centre and the balers will be just behind them!

In 2012 hardly any Wheat etc was cut in the UK untill the last 10/15 days of Sept! yet there was still plenty of straw baled across the UK.

 

[gone up the hill]

You need to understand that a Devon arable farmers thinking is very different to a 4000 acre man up this way and beyond.

I know what your trying to do and that is talk up a straw shortage and thus the price of delivered in straw as currently delivered in prices are far below standing straw prices when you take into account haulage/ baling/risk etc.

 

[thorpe]

You need to understand that a Devon arable farmers thinking is very different to a 4000 acre man up this way and beyond.

well said , guth onlly sees his part of the world , i dont think he gets out much , only to mkt.

 

[puntabrava]

I know what your trying to do and that is talk up a straw shortage and thus the price of delivered in straw as currently delivered in prices are far below standing straw prices when you take into account haulage/ baling/risk etc.

No, I am taking a view, anybody who has rung me over the last month I have told them to sit on their hands as if the weather comes right there will be over supply, this has not happened. The weather forecast is Shyte, the ground is pee wet through, August is here tomorrow with all crops approaching fitness together.

 

[4course]

No, I am taking a view, anybody who has rung me over the last month I have told them to sit on their hands as if the weather comes right there will be over supply, this has not happened. The weather forecast is Shyte, the ground is pee wet through, August is here tomorrow with all crops approaching fitness together.

im getting the vibe that the bigger arable boys are going switch the chopper on if movement and clearing aint within a day or so as the last couple of years delays have cost in many ways .i.e fert ,weed control, establishment , rotation etc which is not really understood by those wanting straw ex field

 

[thorpe]

No, I am taking a view, anybody who has rung me over the last month I have told them to sit on their hands as if the weather comes right there will be over supply, this has not happened. The weather forecast is Shyte, the ground is pee wet through, August is here tomorrow with all crops approaching fitness together.

we are struggling to get winter barley done , when we have wont know wether to go to wheat or osr and by then spring barley might be necking over! we have nowt till its in the shed good luck everybody and just think about dropping the chopper and take the pressure off the job!

 

[gone up the hill]

No, I am taking a view, anybody who has rung me over the last month I have told them to sit on their hands as if the weather comes right there will be over supply, this has not happened. The weather forecast is Shyte, the ground is pee wet through, August is here tomorrow with all crops approaching fitness together.

You worry too much!

Amazing how much corn ground can be covered in a 10 day dry spell.

Most crops are only just fit and being July there was never going to be an over supply of straw at this stage in the season/harvest regardless of the weather!

As for the forecast, i would not bother looking at it/worrying about it as they will be saying it will be wet for 4 weeks then 2 days later saying a heatwave is coming in within 48 hours and that we will get a 10 day or so dry spell and hey presto it comes dry suddenly!

 

[thorpe]

You worry too much!

Amazing how much corn ground can be covered in a 10 day dry spell.

Most crops are only just fit and being July there was never going to be an over supply of straw at this stage in the season/harvest regardless of the weather!

As for the forecast, i would not bother looking at it/worrying about it as they will be saying it will be wet for 4 weeks then 2 days later saying a heatwave is coming in within 48 hours and that we will get a 10 day or so dry spell and hey presto it comes dry suddenly!

forever the optimist.

 

[4course]

You worry too much!

Amazing how much corn ground can be covered in a 10 day dry spell.

Most crops are only just fit and being July there was never going to be an over supply of straw at this stage in the season/harvest regardless of the weather!

As for the forecast, i would not bother looking at it/worrying about it as they will be saying it will be wet for 4 weeks then 2 days later saying a heatwave is coming in within 48 hours and that we will get a 10 day or so dry spell and hey presto it comes dry suddenly!

im not sure you grasp the arable mans viewpoint , which is ---The crop to be harvested in the next couple of weeks is a bloody nuisance and in the way of getting next years off to a clean flying start and straw is either to be shifted asap i.e behind combine or will be returned whence it came

 

[lloyd]

Still got some lovely round bale barley straw
for sale but on Puntabravas foresight they are
now £19 a round bale.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Still got some lovely round bale barley straw
for sale but on Puntabravas foresight they are
now £19 a round bale.

8 foot rounds?

 

[Sid]

Why would arable farmers chop something that's not a byproduct and part of their whole harvest?

 

[fieldfarmer]

You need to understand that a Devon arable farmers thinking is very different to a 4000 acre man up this way and beyond.

And he's not a Devon arable farmer either!

 

[lloyd]

8 foot rounds?

Not unless you like bales resembling a mint Polo.

 

[puntabrava]

You worry too much!

Amazing how much corn ground can be covered in a 10 day dry spell.

Most crops are only just fit and being July there was never going to be an over supply of straw at this stage in the season/harvest regardless of the weather!

As for the forecast, i would not bother looking at it/worrying about it as they will be saying it will be wet for 4 weeks then 2 days later saying a heatwave is coming in within 48 hours and that we will get a 10 day or so dry spell and hey presto it comes dry suddenly!

I am in business and need to take a view the whole time to keep in business.
Your right about covering ground in ten days, the combine output can be staggering nowadays.

 

[4course]

Why would arable farmers chop something that's not a byproduct and part of their whole harvest?

"
time costs money,removing the non "byproduct "costs money, delay in next years crop establishment costs money so it comes down to a partial budget exercise or stress relief management

 

[puntabrava]

we are struggling to get winter barley done , when we have wont know wether to go to wheat or osr and by then spring barley might be necking over! we have nowt till its in the shed good luck everybody and just think about dropping the chopper and take the pressure off the job!

I have 500 acres of WB on the floor, it looks 10 days from a forecast to get it baled and wheat and SB will be cutting before we bale any WB I think.

 

[gone up the hill]

I am in business and need to take a view the whole time to keep in business.
Your right about covering ground in ten days, the combine output can be staggering nowadays.

It is still only the last day of July.

If you had posted your previous comments on the last day of Aug and we had not had one dry day in that month and combines had not turned a wheel since the end of July i would agree with you.

All to play for in the next 3/4 weeks.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Heatwave coming for August

 

[gone up the hill]

I have 500 acres of WB on the floor, it looks 10 days from a forecast to get it baled and wheat and SB will be cutting before we bale any WB I think.

Many people are saying the WB straw was not fit to combine but the grain was ready??

Perhaps this enforced stopping of combines will actually be a good thing for the Wheat/ S Barley straw and it will be fit to bale when it is cut?