Silage / Straw / Hay Price Tracker

[Northeastfarmer]

Be cheaper to sell all the cattle than pay £130 for straw

 

[Skintagain]

Be cheaper to sell all the cattle than pay £130 for straw

Especially the trade they’ve been at. Usually trades turd when you have to shift them

 

[ImLost]

I'm paying £10 a bale for 4ft round bales of wheat this year.

 

[bobk]

I'm paying £10 a bale for 4ft round bales of wheat this year.

Sell them on .

 

[Werzle]

I'm paying £10 a bale for 4ft round bales of wheat this year.

£18-25 locally. Thank goodness i dont need any.
Wheat planted everywhere and looking well so standing straw trade will be back on the floor next year

 

[ImLost]

Sell them on .

So I run out and have to buy in all this £180 a ton stuff you are all discussing ?

If someone can suggest a cheap alternative to straw that doesn't lock up nitrogen and won't bring in blackgrass I would appreciate it.
If I had my own sheds I would look at slats, or outwintering if I had my own land.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

£18-25 locally. Thank goodness i dont need any.
Wheat planted everywhere and looking well so standing straw trade will be back on the floor next year

It’s a long time till next harvest I wouldn’t make any assumptions yet

 

[roscoe erf]

£18-25 locally. Thank goodness i dont need any.
Wheat planted everywhere and looking well so standing straw trade will be back on the floor next year

Good

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Not making an isue of it but before someone posts the sale report i have weights in the office form 4 lots that dont correspond with the prices suggested,

 

[som farmer]

least arguable way, is the weighbridge.
Local contractor, having extolled the virtues, of belt balers, for several years, has gone back to a roller one, fine, but the price, per bale, is the same, the bale is not, it's 20% lighter, that is, in effect, a 20% rise in baling costs, most farmers either haven't realised, or couldn't care.

 

[onthehoof]

So what are big boys selling into power stations @£48/t thinking?

 

[Skintagain]

So what are big boys selling into power stations @£48/t thinking?

Probably have sheds full of last year’s in anticipation

 

[Derrick Hughes]

So what are big boys selling into power stations @£48/t thinking?

They thinking that they done well over a-10 year average

 

[Jon 3085]

 

[fieldfarmer]

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Well, you can't argue with them facts, its all there.

 

[Skintagain]

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Rounds don’t look too bad unless you could kick them across yard

 

[Jon 3085]

Rounds don’t look too bad unless you could kick them across yard

The oat straw was last years and second quality.

 

[Skintagain]

The oat straw was last years and second quality.

Beggars can’t be choosers I suppose

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Beggars can’t be choosers I suppose

Makes sod all difference if its this years or last
But now The Old Man of Stow has spoken we all have to pay more

 

[Skintagain]

Makes sod all difference if its this years or last
But now The Old Man of Stow has spoken we all have to pay more

Hay will be lifting before long