Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Fendt516profi]

Maybe best that @Hfd Cattle doesn't go, if he went he'd probably be paid to take it all away.

 

[tr250]

How much should I expect to pay for 8ft 120x70 bales of nice meadow hay ex farm?

 

[RhysT]

Paid £110 a tonne delivered for top quality 4 string hay about a fortnight ago.
South west wales

 

[aangus]

How much should I expect to pay for 8ft 120x70 bales of nice meadow hay ex farm?

£40/bale

 

[Derrick Hughes]

How much should I expect to pay for 8ft 120x70 bales of nice meadow hay ex farm?

Seems to be trading at £25 to £30 ex farm

 

[Skintagain]

Seems to be trading at £25 to £30 ex farm

All that work for £25

 

[aangus]

Seems to be trading at £25 to £30 ex farm

For a 400kg bale

Seems to be trading at £25 to £30 ex farm

400kg bale?

 

[Derrick Hughes]

For a 400kg bale

400kg bale?

Yes , plenty about at that
Cow hay is cheaper

 

[Derrick Hughes]

All that work for £25

I think this is a price tracker, not the fool is to cheap tracking ,

 

[Hfd Cattle]

All that work for £25

Unfortunately yes but the bales per acre was quite generous this season so the costs of making would be a bit lower.
....and there is plenty around and for sale . A lot of hay is sat in sheds that are needed for livestock now so is on the market and priced to be moved quickly .

 

[Werzle]

Weather just could not be better for keeping stock outside , one blip ten days ago when we had heavy rain but the wind has dried it back up like it didnt happen. I cannot remember such a prolonged spell of good weather without drought conditions, corn and grass seeds locally all planted and up in perfect conditions and spuds, maize and apples harvested without all the usual ruts and mud . It must be going to knock straw and fodder prices even more than it was forcast too with the bumper crops for sale.

 

[Estate fencing.]

Weather just could not be better for keeping stock outside , one blip ten days ago when we had heavy rain but the wind has dried it back up like it didnt happen. I cannot remember such a prolonged spell of good weather without drought conditions, corn and grass seeds locally all planted and up in perfect conditions and spuds, maize and apples harvested without all the usual ruts and mud . It must be going to knock straw and fodder prices even more than it was forcast too with the bumper crops for sale.

It’s been an amazing autumn for us. The last 2 years we where fill winter feeding half our sheep by now. I bought 550 lambs 5 weeks ago and they haven’t even started to graze what was grazed off this time last year, this is because we have been able to graze river meadows that would have been under water by September.

 

[Skintagain]

Weather just could not be better for keeping stock outside , one blip ten days ago when we had heavy rain but the wind has dried it back up like it didnt happen. I cannot remember such a prolonged spell of good weather without drought conditions, corn and grass seeds locally all planted and up in perfect conditions and spuds, maize and apples harvested without all the usual ruts and mud . It must be going to knock straw and fodder prices even more than it was forcast too with the bumper crops for sale.

It’s a pleasure at the moment I must say.

 

[bertthefarmer]

Has anyone come across Proforage up near Shrewsbury? Are they decent people to deal with?

 

[Werzle]

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

Heard how it went?

 

[Hfd Cattle]

Heard how it went?

No asked a few but they didn't go

 

[bobk]

Orders for hay and straw piling up . all about marketing and product

 

[Devil's advocate]

Orders for hay and straw piling up . all about marketing and product

Its the qualty & the service.

 

[lloyd]

No asked a few but they didn't go

I went for the forum of course .
Straw was a difficult trade with the
indoor round bale looking from £10--£12 wheat for what was sold .
Outdoor even less.A lot of straw unsold.

The best of seeds hay and haylage sold well enough
but the second class stuff either failed to reach the reserve
or was bid low .Prices for rb silage ranged from £7 a bale bid to low £20s .

 

[Jsmith2211]

I went for the forum of course .
Straw was a difficult trade with the
indoor round bale looking from £10--£12 wheat for what was sold .
Outdoor even less.A lot of straw unsold.

How did the round bale hay do? or was there none? Got some entered into the GTH sale on the 20th, with a reserve of £18 a bale because under that its really not worth doing. Especially since next year I reckon there might not be too much about because of this fertiliser thing.