Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

Farmerdunk

Member
Location
Hertfordshire
Still drilling osr here after spring barley. There is some moisture in the soil but flea beetle shot holing on emerging osr is evident even if not significant at the moment.

I know we should not go on last year’s outcomes but September drilled rape last year did ok and even the lower yielding ones will show a margin at current prices.

Other than drill or not drill, do we risk selling a bit forward to lock in a price beginning with a 4???

oh not just me then getting readings all over the place even using two different probes in the same bale
i've got a DRAMINSKI seems pretty good got a long probe though so often stab myself in the cab

The driver who came for a load a couple of days ago used that make I believe. Our baler guy baled about 100 bales to clear a field last Saturday said he made them around 14.5. Driver made them 20-25. Had to move them to get some drier bales behind.
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
Dose any one have any large stacks of wheat straw ?
Looking for 1000-1500tons dosnt need to be the best . Can take full stacks/chaser lines £40-45 a ton collected ! wilts ,berks ,hants , West Sussex areas
Tons about, even seen some unsold/not collected stacks that have been planted around! Unless we have freak weather events and terrible winters i cant see the straw trade returning to last winters highs for a good many years. Straw will be pounds cheaper bought in on the lorry this winter than straw purchased in the swathe by farmers who believed the hype during standing straw auctions.
 
Tons about, even seen some unsold/not collected stacks that have been planted around! Unless we have freak weather events and terrible winters i cant see the straw trade returning to last winters highs for a good many years. Straw will be pounds cheaper bought in on the lorry this winter than straw purchased in the swathe by farmers who believed the hype during standing straw auctions.
Can't see the lorries that deliver in dropping their haulage rate much, was loading a dealer who was charging £20 per ton on five mile run, a farmer could haul that distance far cheaper.
 

thorpe

Member
New low today , seen an advert for little baled t straw £1/bale. Lovely bright straw but prices are dropping weekly as the realisation of surplus straw dawns on people.
£ a bale ! strokers they wont be going very far on holiday at that price!
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