Straw market analysis.

[Spuddler]

The end of the 303 is in Devon

Naa The start of the 303 is in Devon

 

[Henarar]

Naa The start of the 303 is in Devon

Depends which way you were going
But you are most likely right
Wouldn't want to end up it Devon

 

[An Gof]

Depends which way you were going
But you are most likely right
Wouldn't want to end up it Devon

A303 is a great road, it gets you out of Devon ........... and Somerset

 

[Henarar]

yea takes all the holiday makers right through Somerset and out the other side thank goodness

 

[Sid]

Fail to see where a road starts or ends has to do with straw prices?

 

[Henarar]

Fail to see where a road starts or ends has to do with straw prices?

well if all the roads ended half way through Somerset straw would be more expensive in Devon

You never take a thread off topic do you sid

 

[Demolition Man]

Heard today that some arable farmers in England have banded together to store their straw centrally and pay 24hr security. Would this be to prevent arsonists or theft?

 

[gone up the hill]

Heard today that some arable farmers in England have banded together to store their straw centrally and pay 24hr security. Would this be to prevent arsonists or theft?

Will be to stop arsonists I reckon.

 

[CORK]

What kind of price is straw making/expected to make this harvest?

 

[RAF]

£90/ ton simple

 

[CORK]

£90/ ton simple

Really? I heard of straw trading at between £150 & €160/tn at present.

 

[RAF]

At the moment it is u said at harvest boss

 

[gone up the hill]

£90/ ton simple

Not a hope in hell of it being that expensive off the field.

Because that would put it delivered on farm at £130t and at that money farmers will not buy more than the odd load and wait until the winter to buy the rest.

£130t is totally unsustainable for livestock producers.

 

[Henarar]

Not a hope in hell of it being that expensive off the field.

Because that would put it delivered on farm at £130t and at that money farmers will not buy more than the odd load and wait until the winter to buy the rest.

£130t is totally unsustainable for livestock producers.

Grow your own it's the future

 

[4course]

I think that there is a lot more realism out there in the arable world into how much it costs to remove straw and replace nutrients with bought in fert and or organic matter not to mention the possible effects on timeliness and damage to soil structure. Im thinking there is a slight lack of awareness/ understanding of this in some quarters Personally the crops we have in the ground for harvest 2018 that were sown on time in time look a lot better than the bit that was sold as straw in the swath and we were albeit only slightly held up, but at £150T of grain with a possible 1/2 t yield loss before the above mentioned fert and organic matter cant see a lot more coming forward from the chop as we go chaps in fact probably less

 

[4course]

Not a hope in hell of it being that expensive off the field.

Because that would put it delivered on farm at £130t and at that money farmers will not buy more than the odd load and wait until the winter to buy the rest.

£130t is totally unsustainable for livestock producers.

how many attendees/end users at auctions stop to think how much it costs to spread, row up if bad weather, then or not as the case may be bale load team and stack( edited to explain the term team in these parts mean tip/unload &haul to stack)

 

[bobk]

how many attendees/end users at auctions stop to think how much it costs to spread, row up if bad weather, then or not as the case may be bale load team and stack

TBH they don't give a tuppenny f**k

 

[4course]

TBH they don't give a tuppenny fudge

not just me then thinks same, ho ho

 

[glasshouse]

straw is going to be short and rotten dear again.

 

[4course]

Not a hope in hell of it being that expensive off the field.

Because that would put it delivered on farm at £130t and at that money farmers will not buy more than the odd load and wait until the winter to buy the rest.

£130t is totally unsustainable for livestock producers.

if they wait while winter it may not be there (see above) despite your opinion that crops look well. In other areas things are different in terms of growth stage and straw potential yield which is now apparent at least here .though as yet grain yield is still all to play for