Standing Crop Silage

[YorkeshireFog]

I have 90acres of 1st cut silage to sell to a dairy farm about 2 miles up the road, i have no idea what to charge him for it, what is the going rate per acre for silage? Its very good quality 2yr old lay, he will do all the contracting work so that wont be in the price

 

[buttercup]

So you are selling standing grass...?

 

[Davy_g]

How much is rent around that area?
Have you applied fertiliser or slurry? How much did that cost?
Are there many weeds?
Im going to take a stab at £60 an acre but a lot depends on answers to the above questions.

 

[YorkeshireFog]

Rent would be well over £100 acre
No weeds, rocket fuel silage

 

[YorkeshireFog]

So you are selling standing grass...?

Yes just standing grass

 

[4course]

How much is rent around that area?
Have you applied fertiliser or slurry? How much did that cost?
Are there many weeds?
Im going to take a stab at £60 an acre but a lot depends on answers to the above questions.

digester near me would pay several times that never mind what the dairy boys are prepared to pay for grass lets . Ican only assume your stabbing is with a rapier straight through his heart ,

 

[Davy_g]

digester near me would pay several times that never mind what the dairy boys are prepared to pay for grass lets . Ican only assume your stabbing is with a rapier straight through his heart ,

haha, no. Just from a very uninformed point of view as no one else had commented when i started to type.
I sublet some pp first cut at £40 an acre and second at £30 - supply and demand i suppose.

 

[som farmer]

been discussing this today, we have a grass 'surplus' this year, having sold half the dairy.

got a spring grazer interested, would be older pasture, we will keep the quality stuff. We came up with a figure of £50 ac, sort of 5 ton/ac at £10 ton, should be more than 5, but, its usually better to be 'reasonable', did try to sell some wrapped to them, but no, once cows out, that's it !

 

[d-wales]

I sell for £50 per acre and then £5 per bale for 2nd cut.

No fertiliser

If the buyer wants to out it on , it's up to them.

Probably should charge a little more, but the guys that take it pay quickly. I've had my figures burnt in the past with others.

 

[crashbox]

digester near me would pay several times that never mind what the dairy boys are prepared to pay for grass lets . Ican only assume your stabbing is with a rapier straight through his heart ,

Typical forage costs £150/tonne dry matter.

Say a fair cut is 4 to 5t/acre, at 25% dry matter, is 1 to 1.25t dry matter.

Total value £150 to £187.50.

So, what shall we say for forager, trailers, buckrake, sheeting down... £100/acre?

Leaves £50 to £87.50/acre.

@Davy_g is not far off.

It the digester pays more, phone them up and see what they offer.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

If you put fertiliser on it then no lees than £70 acre ,which wont leave you with a lot when you factor in the K oftake
Slurry back may sweeten the pill
Guys payying £200 acre here on cutting rents ,maybe 3 cuts but suppling all inputs , all you have to worry about is the noise from the harvesting keeping you awake at night

 

[serf]

No weeds, rocket fuel silage

Are your sure it's not just Yorkshire Fog...

 

[crashbox]

Are your sure it's not just Yorkshire Fog...

It's a pseudonym for Timothy Fescue

 

[Tractorboy67]

Sell it over a weigh bridge like they do in New Zealand.

 

[Sam Partridge]

Sell it over a weigh bridge like they do in New Zealand.

Does anyone actually weigh chopped silage or even big bales? Probably easier to work it out in small bales Our absolute biggest cuts of hay are 150-180 bales per acre at near 20kg/bale (so only 3-3.6ton/acre) but I suppose much higher DM content in hay

 

[deleted user 837354]

Do you want to have the same possibly repeated in future or not? I'd not shank the guy buying it, but I would have some arrangement for having slurry etc back to put the fertility back.

 

[4course]

Does anyone actually weigh chopped silage or even big bales? Probably easier to work it out in small bales Our absolute biggest cuts of hay are 150-180 bales per acre at near 20kg/bale (so only 3-3.6ton/acre) but I suppose much higher DM content in hay

weigh everything in and out its a learning curve .I became a devotee of weighing nearly 40 years ago. Though appreciate difficulty is with standing crops is its a guesstimate ,experience helps though its not infallible .

 

[4course]

If you put fertiliser on it then no lees than £70 acre ,which wont leave you with a lot when you factor in the K oftake
Slurry back may sweeten the pill
Guys payying £200 acre here on cutting rents ,maybe 3 cuts but suppling all inputs , all you have to worry about is the noise from the harvesting keeping you awake at night

£ 200 is way more than £60 and to my thinking is nearer the mark but could well be more, though I arnt rushing to buy as round here there seems to be a fair cutback in stock and an increase in so called herbal leys the nearer you get to the hills

 

[Derrick Hughes]

£ 200 is way more than £60 and to my thinking is nearer the mark but could well be more, though I arnt rushing to buy as round here there seems to be a fair cutback in stock and an increase in so called herbal leys the nearer you get to the hills

Herbals have been increasing year on year mainy on beef and sheep , but then Suddenly with this new FSI they have gone mental

 

[Boysground]

Does anyone actually weigh chopped silage or even big bales? Probably easier to work it out in small bales Our absolute biggest cuts of hay are 150-180 bales per acre at near 20kg/bale (so only 3-3.6ton/acre) but I suppose much higher DM content in hay

I’ve bought standing maize when every load has been put over a weigh bridge. Regularly buy a clamp from a chap, can move 1000t in a day. we put every trailer over a weigh bridge once and get an average and use that.

If i had some spare cash to spend i would seriously consider putting my own weigh bridge in.

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