Straw per ton 2020

[B'o'B]

Very charitable of you. I am happy to purchase from you on that basis please and then will sell it on at a hefty markup.

Im guessing his COP will be higher than his crop output this year, very kind of you to underwrite his potential losses.

 

[roscoe erf]

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.

its the same every year

 

[glasshouse]

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.

Rotary combines should be banned

 

[glasshouse]

Had a look at hay today, its disappearing fast.
I will be cutting three weeks earlier than planned

 

[Devil's advocate]

Very charitable of you. I am happy to purchase from you on that basis please and then will sell it on at a hefty markup.

I'll do some costing & let you know.

But it will be in excess of £250 per ton barley & £200 per ton straw.

Hardly anything there, on good land.

 

[Poorbuthappy]

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

@martian possibly?

 

[Steevo]

I'll do some costing & let you know.

But it will be in excess of £250 per ton barley & £200 per ton straw.

Hardly anything there, on good land.

I await the full Promar report.

Sorry to hear things are so dire. It’s going to be a funny old year for all farmers I fear. There won’t be many new tractors sold for a while.

P.S please package the barley in 1kg bags marked “Wholegrain and wholesome barley grain - ideal for home-milling fresh flour” and the straw in vac packed, dust extracted packaging branded “Soft and fluffy premium pet bedding”. I’ll provide 24hours notice of all required deliveries, payment will be 120 days. Promotions will be run from time to time funded by suppliers. No surplus stock is able to be sold to any other suppliers.

 

[CPF]

As I am a arable farmer, and we're all going on about straw prices ,how much can we rep off livestock farmers for straw, they cannot afford those prices at the moment we're all struggling , and don't forget most of the crops we grow go into the livestock sector, the crops grown it's in the name feed wheat , feed barley if we don't look after the livestock sector we will have no market for this product, I now we export a lot feed grains but is drives down the grain prices , because of the buyers are burying grain from around the world. When we go and visit our daughter and son-in-law in WA Australia , I like how the australians farmers stick together , when one part of the country in a drought with nothing left to feed their livestock the arable boys bale whatever they can for them and they send it to the areas where it is need. It's called the straw run, you can YOU TUBE it. We see this taking place, and it's very emotional to see it all being pulled together , all done free of charge because they look after one another. this is typical row of straw from 2019 harvest baled of the farm.

 

[tw15]

Rotary combines should be banned

Look at it this way if you bed down with a straw chopper/ bedder the straw is shorter so would save you money on fuel. So you could argue the straw could command a higher price . But us arable boys with rotory combines are not greedy we just like to help the poor straw buyers out by doing some of their work for them .

 

[glasshouse]

Look at it this way if you bed down with a straw chopper/ bedder the straw is shorter so would save you money on fuel. So you could argue the straw could command a higher price . But us arable boys with rotory combines are not greedy we just like to help the poor straw buyers out by doing some of their work for them .

Ha ha fecking ha

 

[Yale]

They don’t normally park balers up.

The guys running the balers will keep them busy.

 

[glasshouse]

As I am a arable farmer, and we're all going on about straw prices ,how much can we rep off livestock farmers for straw, they cannot afford those prices at the moment we're all struggling , and don't forget most of the crops we grow go into the livestock sector, the crops grown it's in the name feed wheat , feed barley if we don't look after the livestock sector we will have no market for this product, I now we export a lot feed grains but is drives down the grain prices , because of the buyers are burying grain from around the world. When we go and visit our daughter and son-in-law in WA Australia , I like how the australians farmers stick together , when one part of the country in a drought with nothing left to feed their livestock the arable boys bale whatever they can for them and they send it to the areas where it is need. It's called the straw run, you can YOU TUBE it. We see this taking place, and it's very emotional to see it all being pulled together , all done free of charge because they look after one another. this is typical row of straw from 2019 harvest baled of the farm.View attachment 883332View attachment 883333View attachment 883334

I dont think the straw is given away.
Baling and loading lorries between rain showers costs a lot of money
Wet straw has to be turned
Wet straw out of rotaries is a write off
all sides need paying, and livestock farmers are often minted.
Conversely straw contractors live on a knife edge between the devil and the deep blue sea

 

[R J]

Roughly how much is rape straw going to be worth acre / ton ?
Just to give a guide as normally chop but may bale this year

 

[Wooly]

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

being quoted £85 good barley straw delivered now, I know our supplier is worried about amounts of straw, also got a sneaky suspicion, he's already got a lot in barns. Don't blame him either, he's always fair with price, except hay now, very short where he is, and dear! but got some elsewhere.

I suggest you get it purchased at that price.

This is an arable area and there is a considerable less winter crops in the ground. The spring crops will soon need a drink and any surplus straw is likely to be taken by the local livestock farmers, as grass growth is non excistant at present !

 

[hally]

Last time straw got expensive around here, there was a lot of cubicles put in and slats of various types as well as some moving to sloping floors and other ways of not using straw. So if people get greedy it will merely dampen the demand for future years. Hopefully a decent carryover will offset some of the shortage.

 

[ollie989898]

Look at it this way if you bed down with a straw chopper/ bedder the straw is shorter so would save you money on fuel. So you could argue the straw could command a higher price . But us arable boys with rotory combines are not greedy we just like to help the poor straw buyers out by doing some of their work for them .

I agree, the first thing farmers do is chuck it in a chopper anyway.

 

[ollie989898]

Roughly how much is rape straw going to be worth acre / ton ?
Just to give a guide as normally chop but may bale this year

Whatever anyone will give for it, get it gone.

 

[ollie989898]

being quoted £85 good barley straw delivered now, I know our supplier is worried about amounts of straw, also got a sneaky suspicion, he's already got a lot in barns. Don't blame him either, he's always fair with price, except hay now, very short where he is, and dear! but got some elsewhere.

I'd get that bought.

In your neck of the woods can't you buy in some of that saw dust stuff?

 

[hally]

Roughly how much is rape straw going to be worth acre / ton ?
Just to give a guide as normally chop but may bale this year

Doesn’t make much less than wheat straw around here, a lot of people like it for bedding sheep as it seems less prone to give feet problems. Personally I only buy barley myself.

 

[7610 super q]

Ah, the old livestock farmers can't afford it chestnut. I was with you for a few years, I really was. But after a decade of loading brand new John Deeres and new 28 ' Bailey trailers with my 20 year old Manipoo ( or 35 year old Sanderson if it breaks down ) the penny finally dropped. I for one ain't falling for it again.