Straw per ton 2020

[thameslade]

Would any one like to suggest the value of straw this year as it will be very short in both sense of the word!

 

[jack6480]

£150 a ton

 

[Steevo]

Value when? Harvest time straight off the field.....or in the middle or end of what might be a short or long winter.

I think all forage will be short this year. One of the few years that we have glorious hay making weather and the price won't fall like a stone.

 

[Trying]

What will the farmer get. I think we had £13 a bale last year. £17.50 - £20?

 

[Brisel]

Location, location. Hard to say until the usual bunfight at the standing straw auctions begins. I can see it being 25% higher than last year. I wouldn't want to be a livestock farmer this summer! Fodder and straw dearer but feed imports will be cheaper if the tariff wall comes down as proposed.

 

[7610 super q]

Too early to say. Another 2 weeks of dry weather, and there won't be any straw at all. Then, what will harvest be like ? Clean sweep, or soggy mess ?
Still hanging on here, but burning up in patches. If the rest of the field follows suit......
Never got more than £80 / ton yet. Even in "good " years. It'll be £100 / ton this year, or I'm chopping it. P & K disappearing fast, and fert ain't getting any cheaper. SB fairing better than SW ATM.

 

[Banana Bar]

Offered £55/t in the stack for 2020 yesterday. Put a new main chopper belt on the combine today.
There’s no forage, no good crops and straw has no height. I reckon it will be £100/t by 20 th July.

 

[newhollandcruzr]

Been told barley 100 del N Devon , but some not giving prices !!

 

[Brisel]

I asked a similar question in the Livestock section on the Straw/Hay Price Tracker. @puntabrava answered.

 

[Spencer]

When will the NFU “bale everything” campaign start......?

 

[ajd132]

chop everything. When will see arable farmers being all righteous that they are baling straw to ‘support’ the livestock boys all over social media? (Forgetting to mention they are doing it because it’s worth loads!)

 

[kill]

I think this winter may well see barley straw breaking £200 a ton delivered but I wouldn’t like to say how far by and thank goodness I am mainly sand?

 

[Goffer]

there wont be any hardly spare in side yorkshire border, straw wars has already begun . personally shorter than a foot it wont be worth bailing with a round baler

 

[kill]

Half wondering whether to chip dead ash trees up for bedding. Has anyone done this? And how well would it work?

 

[benny6910]

Offered £55/t in the stack for 2020 yesterday. Put a new main chopper belt on the combine today.
There’s no forage, no good crops and straw has no height. I reckon it will be £100/t by 20 th July.

Will you take the chopper belt back if straw gets to £100/t?

 

[bankrupt]

I think this winter may well see barley straw breaking £200 a ton

Standing sales next month could easily break £200 a ton, failing close inspection.

 

[Brisel]

It will hold up following operations especially if it gets wet & the balers won't pick it up if really beaten up by rotary combines and has no length.

 

[Mark C]

Problem will be who will be able to afford it?? Livestock job isn't exactly awash with money

 

[jed]

A lot of mixed farmers like ourselves won’t have hardly any surplus to sell this year as already mentioned never seen crops so short and we are going to be desperately short of forage for our cattle .
In a previous thread I mentioned a month ago if I got 3 t of wheat an acre I would be a happy man looking at crops now I’ll be ecstatic with 2 t/ac
Generally a ton of wheat produces 3 round bales of straw.

 

[deleted user 837354]

We seem to have this argument every year.

The answer is to find someone locally you trust, agree a price for every bit standing and get it baled and gone. OSR, bean haulm, the lot. Don't leave the arable farmer stuck with anything in the swath.