Silage Wrap

[Skimmer]

Any prices yet this year.

 

[Northeastfarmer]

Paid £51 for JD black 2 weeks ago

 

[AlfM]

Up to £60+ now around here although luckily we bought some for similar to above a while back. 750 mm green

 

[top char]

What colours are available, and are there any advantages of certain ones?

 

[gone up the hill]

Gone up a fiver already and told more to come due to the high oil price yet @Frank-the-Wool states wool is worthless on the beef tracker thread a day or so ago due to the low oil price..................................................

 

[Frank-the-Wool]

Gone up a fiver already and told more to come due to the high oil price yet @Frank-the-Wool states wool is worthless on the beef tracker thread a day or so ago due to the low oil price..................................................

Crude is now just over $60 a barrel. It has been this price since 2017 and fell dramatically at the start of the pandemic when it became almost free.
For wrap manufacturers to blame the oil price is pushing it a bit as it has been well below $60 for the last 12 months!

Even more significant with oil price is the dollar to pound exchange rate which has gone from around $1.20 to $1.40 now. So in fact oil prices should have not risen so much!!

 

[DeeGee]

Anyone used a dark green coloured wrap that I have seen on some bales?
If so from where was it bought and is it a similar price to black? TIA.

 

[Wishful Thinker]

I was told the excuse that it was recycling plants in America shut down so shortage of material

 

[Northeastfarmer]

I was told the excuse that it was recycling plants in America shut down so shortage of material

There’s always an excuse...real reason is they just want to put it up

 

[Bullring]

It’s all academic because if it doesn’t rain or warm up there will be nothing to wrap as there will be no grass to bale.

 

[Boohoo]

I've heard £6 a roll increase on 2020 prices and been told about a merchant that can't fulfil an order because the manufacturer won't release any more. Someone is trying to get the price even higher than it needs to be.

 

[kill]

I've heard £6 a roll increase on 2020 prices and been told about a merchant that can't fulfil an order because the manufacturer won't release any more. Someone is trying to get the price even higher than it needs to be.

I think one manufacturer is steering the whole market upwards and really they need avoiding to catch a cold.

 

[Boohoo]

I think one manufacturer is steering the whole market upwards and really they need avoiding to catch a cold.

I'd say they're all at it

 

[Happy]

Seems to have jumped an awful lot.
Paid £49.75 for black Silawrap 6 weeks ago.

 

[Boohoo]

Seems to have jumped an awful lot.
Paid £49.75 for black Silawrap 6 weeks ago.

Must've been a lorry load at that price?

 

[Happy]

Must've been a lorry load at that price?

40 rolls.
Merchant bought 3 artic loads pre brexit.

They won’t have been the only ones that did that.
Oil price my arse

 

[Boohoo]

40 rolls.
Merchant bought 3 artic loads pre brexit.

The won’t have been the only ones.
Oils price my arse!!

You did well! I know someone who was paying more than that for black Silawrap last year and he buys 20 pallets of wrap plus net replacement film a year.

 

[Skintagain]

I feel as though it’s going to be more of a hay year

 

[Sid]

It's not the oil price driving wrap prices it the resin used as "stick" in plastics made in Spain I was told.

Its not just wrap its the same with other all other plastics. Brett Martin put up prices 18% 1st of April

 

[HarryB97]

Silotite has gone up to nearly £60 a roll around here up from below £55 last year. Luckily ordered a couple of extra pallets last year due to covid and brexit.