Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[lloyd]

Nick Champion got a Fodder sale shortly . He is asking vendors to be 'realistic' with their reserves this yr .
I bet it will be awash with silage but probably too far for you . I was going to put some in the sale I've got stacked in Rotherwas but I'm going to hang on till Brightwells sale I think .

No quite the opposite ,Tenbury is closer to where
our cattle are .Thanks I will keep an eye out .
More of an insurance policy against dear fertiliser
which hasn't arrived yet.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Sales are all later this year, nothing till the 28th , how do you see the hay trade going ?

 

[lloyd]

Sales are all later this year, nothing till the 28th , how do you see the hay trade going ?

Weather dependant from now on .

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Weather dependant from now on .

Not in the short term surly ,

 

[lloyd]

Not in the short term surly ,

They've had a lot of rain up North now.
Our ground has been the driest for years but
at this time of year wont take too many days
of heavy rain before we have to bring the cattle in .
Plenty of fodder about at the moment but if we have
a hard winter combined with a reluctance by many to buy fertiliser
at £6-700t I would gamble that we're closer to the bottom of
the trade than the top.

 

[Boydvalley]

Fag packet calculations but

buy in silage/hay £20 a bale, less £10 making costs which you would had to pay to make your own, cost to you £10 bale.

£600/ton fert therefore buys 60 bales. Ton of fert would probably grow you nearly that many extra bales and you would know the quality. Not a lot in it.

Edit And you would still be cutting your own ground

 

[Greythundercloudys]

The amount of rain its been up here since Wednesday all cattle will need to be in that comes in over the next week, ground absolutely flooded out now.

 

[Anymulewilldo]

Brought the November -January calvers in this evening. Not poaching yet but given heavy rain tomorrow so would be making a mess by Sunday. Better inside now. Will try and keep the weaned spring calvers out until early December. But they are on 2 round bales hay and a square of barley straw every 2 days now

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Sales are all later this year, nothing till the 28th , how do you see the hay trade going ?

Nick Champion has one 11 Nov

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Brought the November -January calvers in this evening. Not poaching yet but given heavy rain tomorrow so would be making a mess by Sunday. Better inside now. Will try and keep the weaned spring calvers out until early December. But they are on 2 round bales hay and a square of barley straw every 2 days now

Got the sheds ready for some cows to come in . Stores been in a month now .

 

[Benr]

Anyone know what wheat straw is making to north Devon?

 

[Sid]

Anyone know what wheat straw is making to north Devon?

£90

 

[DefenderDave]

What’s the price of 120x70 bales for both wheat and barley? Shropshire based.

 

[Billboy1]

have some nice spring barley straw for sale over the winter approx 70 ton all indoors in big hesstons

 

[Hampshire Forage]

have some nice spring barley straw for sale over the winter approx 70 ton all indoors in big hesstons

Where abouts are you?

 

[puntabrava]

Where abouts are you?

It’s a secret, I have looked back through as many posts as are available and nothing
im saying Essex.

 

[Billboy1]

Derbyshire

 

[puntabrava]

Andrew can sort that out then

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Nick Champion has one 11 Nov

Would you be able to go and record the prices for us , not much to interest me there but it would be nice to have an honest report of what stuff made

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Would you be able to go and record the prices for us , not much to interest me there but it would be nice to have an honest report of what stuff made

Unable to go on Thurs .
Will ask brother to write it all down if he goes