off the clock no more coming here for a while
Straw
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are you having a laugh
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
What’s funny?
No just think that the stronger cattle havnt got any dearer this last couple of months but the yearlings have
beefandsleep
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- Location
- Staffordshire
Strong feeding cattle are about 10p/kg dearer than the turn of the year, smaller younger cattle 450kg and less are up around 40p/kg.
- Location
- South Molton
You have one t too many....or 1 alchofrolic too many.
Midnight plough boy
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- Hertfordshire
Shallow rooted cereals sitting in wet soils on heavier land around here (the fields which have been drilled that is). Thinner plant population due to slugs / water logging / potential shallow rooting once it dries out and moisture heads south faster than the roots can follow it down will see more PGR applied to reduce risk of root lodging. Later drilled winter cereals and now potentially later drilled spring cereals will run through growth stages with little tillering. All in all, not a great outlook for straw volumes - some guys who grow their own around here don’t think they’ll have enough so will need to buy in as well.
Wood chippings from a tree surgeon work well as a base layer in cattle yards - tend to keep the whole bed drier.
Wood chippings from a tree surgeon work well as a base layer in cattle yards - tend to keep the whole bed drier.
Mark C
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- Location
- Bedfordshire
An awful lot will depend on the next 4 weeks for getting spring crops down and weather just before and during harvest.
Late spring crops less straw
Wet harvest - more straw chopped.
Late spring crops less straw
Wet harvest - more straw chopped.
all stores have gone dearer, thought last week as dear as i have seen. to many men spending others money
Yeah
They're nearly as dear as they were 20 years ago
FFS haven't you heard of inflation?
Pratt
I'm not being funny but I think your rose tinted specs might need recalibrating!
Aye fair enough
It was 17 years ago after the single payment came in
Store yearling bullocks were making 220p/kg
And last week the trade lifted again to average......
220p/kg
No specs required of any colour
Northeastfarmer
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- Location
- Cleveland
Finished bullocks were making £1700 yonks ago...now they are 1400
Everything needs to move forward
yeah and the fat are as well
yellow belly
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- south west lincolnshire
my farm will produce 1/4of the wheat straw it did last year and that may get chopped
the straw yield on the spring barley we plant depends on the weather in the next 4 weeks
my soil is now at a stage where to increase the worms any more it needs straw to be chopped 10 inch stubble is not enough
the straw yield on the spring barley we plant depends on the weather in the next 4 weeks
my soil is now at a stage where to increase the worms any more it needs straw to be chopped 10 inch stubble is not enough
From late 2004, the only old FW I can find, stores top price £606, Finished cattle £1.83kg/dw, liveweight under £1/kg
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Recent estimates are that between 55 and 60% of winter wheat was sown.
However IME when ever the price of straw is talked up it always encourages more to bale and then the price falls away.
I'll bale what I need for the pig unit and the rest is getting chopped.
PS Here only 35% of the farm drilled up to now. 12% going to be fallowed and the rest spring wheat and barley if I can get it in.
Plenty have done very little drilling around here.
However IME when ever the price of straw is talked up it always encourages more to bale and then the price falls away.
I'll bale what I need for the pig unit and the rest is getting chopped.
PS Here only 35% of the farm drilled up to now. 12% going to be fallowed and the rest spring wheat and barley if I can get it in.
Plenty have done very little drilling around here.
- Location
- Near Colchester
Me and my other small family farming neighbours in the sub - 500 acre bracket are drilled up (the winter stuff anyway). The bigger neighbours haven't drilled a seed and some of them grow 5000 acres plus of winter crops, mainly wheat of course.