Princess Pooper
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- Location
- East Mids
Yes if they are buying it in. It seems to be overlooked if you have grown it yourself.
Thinking of getting into cereal crops. Anyone got a breakdown including contractor costs
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farmerm
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- Location
- Shropshire
You will need a trailer to cart it and a means of loading it. For 10Ac far better just rent it to your Neighbour. Take a guaranteed income and not have to stress about the weather, contractors not being available when you need them etc. Some years might cost you £3000 to grow 10ac and give you £4000 income, others might still cost you £3000 to grow give you sleepless nights and struggle to generate £2000 in income. On loamy fen soils there are surely move profitable cropping options than cereals?
What crops are you thinking off.
but surely if i was i could get a better price and would be alot easier to sell?
I assumed you were growing it to feed and bed your own animals instead of buying in.
If your.doing it as a cash crop then definitely don't bother!
Each to their own though. Wtfdik.
C'mon join the joyride!
Because it costs approx £200 so say £7/t for you and it costs a fortune in time and paperwork on top.
want to do it and sell the grain and keep straw for cattle.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Don't bother. It will just be a inconvenience for contractor or he will charge you higher rates to come to ten acres. Let it out if you want it cropped.
Fair enough, nowt wrong with that. Probably better financially to have a few more cattle and buy a wagon load of straw in, but without the satisfaction of growing your own.
- Location
- South Wales UK
Always others got crops ready the same time.
Cheapest grain grown round here is always all done by competitive contract, contra a merchant for seed, fert and chem against a load of grain at harvest, then not pay the contractor(s).
- Location
- Northumberland
Only a recommendation, currently.
Edit: Beef & Lamb anyway: FW.e.1 Recommendation, can't comment for dairy.
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- Location
- East meath/dublin
A very good question one we should all ask ourselves especially on a very small acreage...... And the answer which will confuse and astound the accountant is because we enjoy it some of us just have to grow crops we would be like fish out of water if we didnt . Its good for the soul even if its bad for the pocket !!About £125 / ton in FW ATM.
Any merchants in your area ? Wynnstay etc ?
Will you be selling the grain to livestock farmers ?
Straw..... never broken the £80 / ton glass ceiling here. There's always a reason why it's on the floor. Fantastic high yielding crops this year......yet at standing straw auctions it's " Very poor crops this year ".......
As said you can buy it in at below COP, so why bother growing it ?
If the op has livestock then he should utilise the grain and straw himself and stay out of the quality assuarance scam , maybe sell a few ton on the side to his neighbours
From reading Classic tractor plenty of small livestock men still grow a few acres of barley and oats to feed their stock and do all the work themselves with older kit .
Thats how money is made or saved and how these men can make a good living on a modest enough acreage .
When i was young and hungry for " pub and disco cash " i cut a lot of these ten acre crops for livestock men . Some of these dung and slurry crops would take a prize 3 ton acre and a hundred small squares an acre on very little more than seed a few bags of compound and 2 sprays weeds and a head spray .
Still room for the small man
got a rough price for milling wheat?
- Location
- West Suffolk
Don’t bother with combinable, grow Potatoes?
- Location
- West Suffolk
Ive got a Ransomes Fawn I need to sell......
Simon Chiles
DD Moderator
- Location
- Surrey/ Kent Border, UK
Rightly or wrongly I’d charge exactly the same rate whether it was 10 acres or 1000 acres , I calculate my cost and average it out over my workload so that everyone pays the same, large or small. Don’t forget that sometimes it’s handy to have a small job that you can nip in to do if you’ve finished another one 3/4 of the way through the day. In my experience of contracting and knowing lots of contractors you end up at the back of the queue if you take months to pay your bill. Prompt payment and a cup of coffee when they turn up/ slice of cake and cup of tea at teatime will leapfrog you up the list.