Slow grain movement

[Widgetone]

Totally agree, Camgrain gives me the ability to harvest when I couldn't otherwise think about it and the the individual load sampling and segregation is something I couldn't dream of on my scale. So still very much a fan, just need to sort this harvest movement thing.

With greater combine capacity I guess even the most modern of stores will struggle at peak harvest, even more so in wet catchy years. The real issue, as others have raised, is the shortage of trucks.
Hauliers have to survive in the other 11 months of the year....not just as farm trailers at harvest.

 

[Hanslope]

With greater combine capacity

There's less of them though,

for every Lexion out there, there would of been, half a dozen Dominators?

 

[Hanslope]

struggle at peak harvest

This is the problem, I suspect for an average farmer member their intake requirement will be spread out over five weeks, W Barley, OSR, S Barley, Wheat, Beans etc...

But if some members want their whole tonnage collecting in a few days, i.e. they send in 100% Milling wheat or what they hope will be... all of it harvested in the first week of August.

 

[ajd132]

This is the problem, I suspect for an average farmer member their intake requirement will be spread out over five weeks, W Barley, OSR, S Barley, Wheat, Beans etc...

But if some members want their whole tonnage collecting in a few days, i.e. they send in 100% Milling wheat or what they hope will be... all of it harvested in the first week of August.

Would also depend if they have communicated with the harvest desk and told them of their intentions. It’s not helpful if someone goes and cuts 1500t of milling wheat then rings up and wants immediate collection.

 

[Flat 10]

550 members. 850 loads averages at less than 2 loads a member

 

[ajd132]

550 members. 850 loads averages at less than 2 loads a member

Yes but remember many are managing more than one members account. I have 8 separate ‘members’ that I farm for.

 

[Farmer-George]

The whole haulage job is in a mess. If you limit your work to tippers, limit it further by only carrying TAASC goods there is always going to be a lot of dead miles. Flat work gives so much flexibility to run loaded all the time.

We have had one merchant let us down massively on our barley movement. Cefetra have done a good job for us again! They always seem to have port stores or boats to accommodate the volume of harvest movement required. Our other merchant has run out of space!! How the f##k do you do that!! Do they not know what they’ve bought and where from!?

I looked at putting a truck/trucks on the road for bulk work. Merchant rates don’t stack up! Margins are as slim as farming. We need less risk in our business not more!! [emoji10]

 

[Against_the_grain]

Cefetra been very good here moving grains this year too

 

[Flat 10]

I get easily confused but who are cefetera? No idea ra?

 

[kiwi pom]

Is the problem really a lack of trucks or more a lack of drivers and the ability to get loaded/unloaded 24/7? Trucks can be double shifted after all.
How many central grain stores or mills let you unload at 1am? How many farms would load at 3am? etc.

 

[Sonoftheheir]

Didn’t expect any movement this wk, had taken the loader to the next village and started carting cattle muck back. Phone call at 10am “can you load 3 lorries pls” when I say? “In about 1/2 hour!”

Well I had to say yes!

 

[Flat 10]

My neighbour had 5 at 5pm. I asked him who he had to murder to get them.

 

[Widgetone]

I get easily confused but who are cefetera? No idea ra?

No idea ra = Cofco nowadays
Cefetra a different outfit

 

[Farmer-George]

I get easily confused but who are cefetera? No idea ra?

Haha! No-idera are now Cofco. Their movement has been shocking.

Cefetra are the guys who took on the Dalmark grain book. One of the few we continue to get a good level of service from.

 

[Against_the_grain]

Seems things have eased. 16loads in the last 2 days so far. Certainly given us space again. Just in time as beans now going in. Need to think about how to manage this better next year.

 

[Hanslope]

Seems things have eased. 16loads in the last 2 days so far. Certainly given us space again. Just in time as beans now going in. Need to think about how to manage this better next year.

Is this merchant or central store, if merchant do you know its destination?

 

[kingfisher]

I was in our local store/haulier earlier and he had lorries sitting in his yard because of lack of drivers, not ideal this time of year!

 

[Against_the_grain]

Is this merchant or central store, if merchant do you know its destination?

Some direct into mills most to the docks.

 

[CJS]

I was in our local store/haulier earlier and he had lorries sitting in his yard because of lack of drivers, not ideal this time of year!

Drivers on holiday like most of the country

 

[Brisel]

Cefetra are big around here since they took over Wessex Grain. Their haulage has always been quite good.