I bought some similiar at a fiver to buffer feed oct/nov last yr
Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Best quality hay is cheap at twice the price ofIt costs more to make bad hay than good hay !
I'm shifting weathered but dry round bales for £16
poor cow hay.I would imagine the best in the up coming
auctions will be £20plus a bale.
Alot depends on location, ease of loading/lorry access, bale shape and density for haulage etc etc. My guess, what gets sold will be a reasonable trade but alot will go unsold with reserves set to high and vendors will try again at later sales or sell it privately after having it valued at the sale
- Location
- Hereford
I will be surprised if hay is cheap in the coming sales at both Brightwells and Sunderlands . The future tertilser price will dictate it a bit . Nothing like hay in the barn for a bit of security .
- Location
- Hereford
A lot of the hay /straw in the Hfd sales is close enough to Wales to be fetched on tractor and trailer . That seems to keep a better trade on it . ......we will see
Where would you be with out us welsh boysA lot of the hay /straw in the Hfd sales is close enough to Wales to be fetched on tractor and trailer . That seems to keep a better trade on it . ......we will see
- Location
- somerset
we have some hfrs at a friends farm, his silage bales were made with a roller baler, ours with a mchale fusion, and chopped, bales get used either way, he is complaining, his cows, shift a bale a day of his, takes them 3 days to clear one of ours, 2 different contractors, same price per bale, wrapped. Another local contractor, gone from belt to roller, neighbour reckons 20% less in the bale, and 50p dearer.
- Location
- Hereford
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
We will find out after the great rewilding experiment.Where would you be with out us welsh boys
lloyd
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
Dont go doing a Gerald Ratner now.Stuck with all our rubbish !!
- Location
- Hereford
Anyway whatever the Fodder trade is ..... tonight is cooking and Thatchers night
Casserole is in the oven
3rd can of Thatchers just poured
Snooker is on at 7 pm
The jobs a goodun !
Casserole is in the oven
3rd can of Thatchers just poured
Snooker is on at 7 pm
The jobs a goodun !
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
If I were a dairy man, I wouldn’t be using BB at all. As you say the extra money can soon be swallowed up by the few issue calvings! A very good friend told me a few years ago that the bonus on blues would be bugger all soon as everyone starts too utilise Sexed semen. Serve half the number of cows with sexed and put everything else too the BB because the calves are worth £££. As it looks I think he’s right.
for me the limousin is king. Easy calving, sharp calves and very saleable at 4 weeks.
Each too our own.
We always had a lot fewer problem calvings with BB than with any other breed, on account of the shorter gestation length. Far, far more problems with AA, Herefords and (especially) Lims & Charolais. Occasionally we might find a problem BB bull when using unproven (cheap) young sires, but anything with established calving figures was a doddle.
Back in the halcyon days of calf exports, we used BB pretty extensively over dairy heifers too, with no great problems.
But yes, an easy calving is king, always. BB was that breed for us.
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
What's barley straw worth ex-farm now (in Wales)? Very dry (a job to get a reading as meter doesn't show below 10%) quadrant bales.
marshbarn
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- Location
- shropshire
£30 / bale
Is the plan if the cider hasn't put you to sleep the snooker will.Anyway whatever the Fodder trade is ..... tonight is cooking and Thatchers night
Casserole is in the oven
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3rd can of Thatchers just poured
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Snooker is on at 7 pm
The jobs a goodun !
£70ton
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
- Location
- Cheshire
I’d have thought £70/t ex farm was closer too the mark? If a touch high this year… so far…That’s very different to the £30/bale above, for very dry straw…
Yes, started at £80, but my buyer is only offering £70 now, as can get it delivered in for £80That’s very different to the £30/bale above, for very dry straw…