Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Clever Dic]

I think forage prices will be strong this year.I have been in the forage selling game now for long enough to see patterns and usually hot dry spring &summer ends up in good quality but shortages . .....
If I was a buyer I think I would be trying to deal now whilst everyone is congratulating themselves on how easy the season has been.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Be interesting .I personally think there will be a glut of forage . No year is ever the same plenty of hay about from last year

 

[Sid]

Be interesting .I personally think there will be a glut of forage . No year is ever the same plenty of hay about from last year

I think you will find a huge variation across the UK.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

I think you will find a huge variation across the UK.

yes , spoke to two big hay men this Morning , one from Nuneaton has not started, crops to light anther from Swindon well into it crops quite good , around here people are cutting fields that haven't seen a mower for 10 years and crops are heavy

 

[roscoe erf]

Any prices for big bales sq hay off the field

 

[Devil's advocate]

That's round bale hay btw, but the agreement is the same for haylage. If i were caught out with the weather and had to make lots of bales of wet silage i would be looking to renegotiate.

You are nothing but a toe rag. You do a deal & stick to it. Any one who tries to renegotiate in my yard, is not allowed in the yard ever again.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

You are nothing but a toe rag. You do a deal & stick to it. Any one who tries to renegotiate in my yard, is not allowed in the yard ever again.

Rather unfair and no need for name calling - it is understood between myself and the landowner that we are aiming for hay but should we get caught out with the weather an agreement will be reached that is fair to both parties.

 

[DRC]

Any straw in swath prices about yet. Just missed a call from a regular, who buys winter barley . Heavy crop this year, so not going to give it away , plus the barn is empty.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Any straw in swath prices about yet. Just missed a call from a regular, who buys winter barley . Heavy crop this year, so not going to give it away , plus the barn is empty.

I would put it in the barn, people try to beg it off the field , spring barley crops on the whole will be down so after Christmas it will be wanted

 

[Sid]

I would put it in the barn, people try to beg it off the field , spring barley crops on the whole will be down so after Christmas it will be wanted

Trying to talk the market up again? Spring barley I've seen is good crops.

 

[d williams]

Trying to talk the market up again? Spring barley I've seen is good crops.

There's more Spring barley around then winter I'd say and it's better than winter barley for bedding

 

[DRC]

I would put it in the barn, people try to beg it off the field , spring barley crops on the whole will be down so after Christmas it will be wanted

haven't got room for all of it in barn.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Trying to talk the market up again? Spring barley I've seen is good crops.

Only an idiot would talk the price down when arable farmers are wondering if they should grease their choppers

 

[7610 super q]

Double entendre alert......

 

[Billboy1]

My wife asked me to give an example of a double entendre so I gave her one [emoji23]

 

[roscoe erf]

My wife asked me to give an example of a double entendre so I gave her one [emoji23]

She asked me too

 

[Sid]

Only an idiot would talk the price down when arable farmers are wondering if they should grease their choppers

Only an idiot would talk the price up when farmers are looking to buy straw at auctions

 

[7610 super q]

We go though this same ritual of talking the price of straw down every year.
Might have fallen for it 25 years ago..........

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Only an idiot would talk the price up when farmers are looking to buy straw at auctions

If they daft enough to pay more for standing crops than the delivered in price then then don't deserve help

 

[DRC]

If they daft enough to pay more for standing crops than the delivered in price then then don't deserve help

£85 ton for delivered in wheat around here at the moment