Stubble Turnips - Grazing Rates (£)

[Jerry]

Doing some budgeting, how much do people charge for sheep keep on stubble turnips over winter?

Me doing the fence moves and stock checks.

 

[sean m]

Doing some budgeting, how much do people charge for sheep keep on stubble turnips over winter?

Me doing the fence moves and stock checks.

@unlacedgecko

 

[spin cycle]

its a 'market place'...i heard up to £1/wk/lamb last season

i've offered a neighbour £20/ac for bare land after harvest....i do all work ...supply seed fert...establish etc...plucked the figure outta thin air....not sure if i'm mad or not

 

[unlacedgecko]

@unlacedgecko

Thanks for the tag. 80p per head per week.

 

[Al R]

70p/head/week for ewes I pay. Deduct £30-£40/acre to DD, seed, roll, diesel. I put silage in the whole time and strip graze on 4/5 day breaks which lengthens the time their on there by a considerable amount but it’s feet off the lambing grass fields

 

[DanM]

Thanks for the tag. 80p per head per week.

presumably that’s with you doing fences and welfare checks? @Jerry asked for rate to pay the arable farmer which Is more like 30-40p/head/wk

 

[DanM]

its a 'market place'...i heard up to £1/wk/lamb last season

i've offered a neighbour £20/ac for bare land after harvest....i do all work ...supply seed fert...establish etc...plucked the figure outta thin air....not sure if i'm mad or not

Downside of doing this, is if the beetles eat them it’s a costly exercise and your still left to look for winter keep!

 

[unlacedgecko]

presumably that’s with you doing fences and welfare checks? @Jerry asked for rate to pay the arable farmer which Is more like 30-40p/head/wk

Ah I misunderstood. I thought he was looking to take sheep on tack on his turnips.

 

[mghley]

Downside of doing this, is if the beetles eat them it’s a costly exercise and your still left to look for winter keep!

That may be the case, but if you want turnips around us that’s the risk you have to take

 

[DanM]

Ah I misunderstood. I thought he was looking to take sheep on tack on his turnips.

Perhaps you didn’t! Might have been me reading op wrong!

 

[DanM]

That may be the case, but if you want turnips around us that’s the risk you have to take

surely your better to let the arable farmer grow them and pay a headage rate. That way their incentivised to grow a good crop. Better it is, the more they earn!

 

[neilo]

its a 'market place'...i heard up to £1/wk/lamb last season

i've offered a neighbour £20/ac for bare land after harvest....i do all work ...supply seed fert...establish etc...plucked the figure outta thin air....not sure if i'm mad or not

Local store lamb guys are supposed to be paying up to £100/ac for ground on the same basis, for the right ground obviously.

I thought that was nuts, but then heard of a poor/late drilled crop of turnips being offered through the local auctioneers at £150/ac a couple of months ago...

 

[Anymulewilldo]

its a 'market place'...i heard up to £1/wk/lamb last season

i've offered a neighbour £20/ac for bare land after harvest....i do all work ...supply seed fert...establish etc...plucked the figure outta thin air....not sure if i'm mad or not

I was told by a store lamb man who does a lot of stubble-stubble green crop that you don’t want too be paying much more than £12/acre for bare stubble. Much more than that and if it isn’t a tip top crop it’s dear feed. Although being next door is obviously worth something.

When I started on the store lambs I was doing stubble-stubble agreements but as someone else said if the crop fails it’s all on me too find alternative keep! The land I could get also wasn’t well farmed land. Very sandy, good too graze mid winter but no weight of muck on it. I had too feet heavy too get any kind of a crop worth grazing. When I got enough people growing for me on a headage basis I stopped drilling them myself apart from at home as a grass break crop.

Good luck!!

 

[unlacedgecko]

I suspect headage rate or renting bare land will be dear this year, as these recent prices mean everyone will want a bigger slice of the pie.

 

[nonemouse]

I’ve grown stubble turnips for man who usually grazes our winter grass, deal is same headage rate as grass, they have to be off grass by end of December, so then go onto turnips. Work on about 35p/head/week on lambs just over 50p for ewes. He does all fencing and welfare checks.

 

[Derrick Hughes]

Its amazing how rates vary . Must be due to demand ,35 p would not cover growing costs

 

[Jerry]

Ah I misunderstood. I thought he was looking to take sheep on tack on his turnips.

yes sheep in on tack, my ground and I’ve established the crop and do the checking and feeding owners bales for him.

 

[unlacedgecko]

yes sheep in on tack, my ground and I’ve established the crop and do the checking and feeding owners bales for him.

If you're feeding bales, then that's a chargeable extra. My 80p is just for fencing and lookering. Anything above that = more money.

 

[Al R]

When the crop is sown will be the biggest factor I assume, once your into mid august the chances of a decent crop is diminishing, hitting September and it really is a break even crop.
Green crop after Winter barley would be worth something, after spring barley or spring wheat the money has got to come down, those 2-3 weeks difference in harvest times is a lot of growth on the green crop, especially if you usually get frost by November/December so it stops it growing completely

 

[nonemouse]

Its amazing how rates vary . Must be due to demand ,35 p would not cover growing costs

Depends what your growing costs are, only worth doing following winter barley ( or better still whole crop wheat) clear field, splash a bit of slurry on, direct drill some turnip seed. An insecticide and low rate graminicide ONLY if needed. A little bit of liquid N about end of august. And then hope the weather plays ball.