Straw now more expensive than grain
- Thread starter Woody j
- Start date
- Location
- Limousin/Charentes toad land
Very hard to justify using it at that price 
Farmeraduk
Member
- Location
- Oxfordshire
Turned some cattle out yesterday, plenty of grass and fields drying out, clay ground. Probably back in next week but saving 1/2 ton straw a day. Earliest ever turnout by 5weeks!
- Location
- South Wales UK
And those who chopped it last year?
I chop a fair chunk of it and honestly think it’s the best place for it.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
300 bales here for sale
serf
Member
- Location
- warwickshire
It's "worth" the same to you as it is to us that buy it though what ever the market price is in your area if you were to sell it
4course
Member
- Location
- north yorks
not me ,but can you see them putting the chopper on this year grain down £50/t straw up £50 and thats without taking in to account the state of white straw crops (yield of straw) wether in the ground or not atm
I know what you mean but I don’t actually have to put my hand in my pocket and buy the stuff. There’s no way I would sell any straw off the farm as it certainly does heavy soil good to plough it down.
The spring barley that most the stock farmers put in on a May drought was a failure this year, I was getting 9 rounds an acre off the wheat ground, all sold at harvest 2 fields chopped as per rotation. But all paid for and in bank by September, a bird in the hand is worth two in the bush, hard to “demand” 3x the price off a loyal customer one year to expect them to return the next, we all hear these big prices but half the time the ones “offering” never pay up.
- Location
- Ardrossan Ayrshire
Has anyone ever bedded on grain?
suffolksmallholder
Member
- Location
- Suffolk
This is probably why there is a straw pellet shortage.
SS
SS
It’s not really because your buying the p&k and can use it on your grass but he’s just borrowing it for a year from his arable
Yep, exactly this. I don't bend my customers over when the price is sky high, but ask a little more when its low. Over £100 is too much for the stockmen, under £50 is too low for us to be bothered, so in the middle works best.
- Location
- Lincolnshire
All my (reduced area) winter cereal straw is now spoken for, on the previso it doesnt get silaged due to weed pressures.
- Location
- Berkshire
I chop as much as possible as it honestly makes most sense for our soil and it makes me cringe all the soil damage involved in baling carting and loading
What frustrates the hell out of me was straw was far too cheap at harvest and the hassle involved in a wet year wasn’t worth it
Cue a wet winter and shortages, this price spike will see an increase in baling this summer, a price collapse and oversupply for the next year
What frustrates the hell out of me was straw was far too cheap at harvest and the hassle involved in a wet year wasn’t worth it
Cue a wet winter and shortages, this price spike will see an increase in baling this summer, a price collapse and oversupply for the next year
warksfarmer
Member
Not so sure the amount of acres going into SFI is significant. Could be 3 years of a very limited supply of straw looming.