poorsheepfarmer
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farmerMerchant or farmer?
farmerMerchant or farmer?
Thats itOr a farmer and trailer, you don't pay £70
£15 bale
That's about where the trade is you be lucky to get £20 for top grade
better keeping it then
Seen some top quality round bale haylage make £10.50 at a sale the other day...
Iv bought some grade 1 silage next door for £15/ bale and been offered 200 bales 3 miles away at £15/ bale ( offered them £12/ bale collected but just not worth anymore when you take £3/ bale to haul it back!! )
Saw some round bale wheat/ barley straw get to £21/ bale at auction.... withdrawn!!!!
No grass around here at all at the mo...
Straw will be £130/ ton down here by harvest....
10.50 a bale is crazy! Even at 15/bale there is nothing in it.
Bloody good job to.
Perhaps we shall see the demise of third parties, who upset the status quo on a local basis, by paying over the odds for relatively worthless materials which they have no personal use for, other than to try and screw the end user in order to meet the payments on kit they have aquired to augment their manhoods.
There is plenty left to shave off of that to cover cost price of production by an end user.
We cost our haylage at £18/bale to make, it can be made cheaper yes but I very much doubt if anyone could get cost below £14