lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
looking at the amount suddenly for sale it could soon
turn into a dutch auction.
turn into a dutch auction.
Spring cereal seed
- Thread starter lloyd
- Start date
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
No end of spring barley seed for sale on FB.
Prices anything from £600 to £890 a ton!
Still another 7 weeks at a push to get it drilled.
If it does not dry up by then it really will be a disaster for every sector of the industry !
Prices anything from £600 to £890 a ton!
Still another 7 weeks at a push to get it drilled.
If it does not dry up by then it really will be a disaster for every sector of the industry !
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
I think there will be a fair bit offered much cheaper.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
£600 would not be out the way as cannot see it being much cheaper than that in 12 months time the way things are going.
But certainly anything over £600 ish a tonne is over priced for sure given that very little if any is likely to be drilled in the next 3 weeks at least in many parts of the country!
No end of winter barley down here has still not had its first fert or any sprays and is looking very sick to say the least!
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
£600 looks very dear to me .
I don't like carrying seed over myself it never seems to germinate
as well next time around and also a pain to store .
£400t is enough now.
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Jo28
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- Location
- East Yorks
7 weeks, give over. if you want to make a profit there's not 7 weeks to plant it on heavy land
goodevans
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There have been some very good crops drilled in May in South Shropshire before now and that doesn't factor in straw,which most certainly will pay for the seed this year
- Location
- Lincolnshire
In reality, there is 5 weeks to drill it here in Lincs, and then youre looking at a late harvest and 2ish tons of feed grain.
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
In your area yes but down here straw could easily be £200 a ton delivered in next winter ( if you can get it ) and grain prices are only going to go one way and even now cake prices are expensive v current grain prices so on livestock farms certainly worth drilling still.
Yes later drilled stuff will yield less but if you get 2 ton of grain 0.7 ton acre of straw it will be worth doing as long as you do not go mad spraying it too much!
- Location
- Northumberland
If you were faced with an early may sowing date, but still needed the straw most importantly, what would be the best choice?
Oats/rye/trit? Or is barley still safest bet?
Oats/rye/trit? Or is barley still safest bet?
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Some who replaced osr with wheat and are now waiting to replace that wheat with spring crops...
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Barley.
Just because
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Agronomist popped in yesterday she said her farmers more concerned about straw than grain as mixed farms
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Most farmers i spoke to yesterday were of the opinion
of when it stops raining will it turn into a drought mid summer .
Big gamble hence seed has looked far too dear.
My agronomist has told me of lots of cancelled orders.
of when it stops raining will it turn into a drought mid summer .
Big gamble hence seed has looked far too dear.
My agronomist has told me of lots of cancelled orders.
I've heard of some ground that has already been drilled 3 times since August. The third 'crop' has now been sprayed off.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
You've still got your costs of planting and harvesting along with
fertiliser and the prospect of having to glyphosphate uneven ripening
before harvest.
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gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
Yes but 2 ton of grain at £400 then another £130 of straw equals £530 acre.
£150 acre machinery and glypo an acre, another £120 for fert/seed then say another £50? for a cheap spray so what £320 acre costs?
And i appreciate barley is not £200 a ton now but very likely will be that or more by this time next spring.
- Location
- East yorks
I know of some that’s been drilled twice and it’s now left and won’t grow much this year
Yes but 2t/ac is always a risk here planted early and with full chem program