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What’s the point in straw merchants?
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<blockquote data-quote="ollie989898" data-source="post: 7393835" data-attributes="member: 54866"><p>They form a link in the marketplace.</p><p></p><p>Imagine you are a barley baron in Salisbury plain. You have 4000 acres of standing crops. There are no cattle farmers for probably 20 miles in any direction. You would choose to sell to a merchant because they will pay you and get the straw shifted promptly. Trying to deal with a dozen livestock boys in Devon would be like herding cats each of whom believe they can probably get a better deal somewhere else first.</p><p></p><p>Arable farmer: 'Would you like to buy some straw..?'</p><p></p><p>Devonian cattle farmer: 'Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... well.... see, I mightn't need as much as last yeer, well, maybe 25 acres then, if it's nice and bright, shiny and bright and shiny like'</p><p></p><p>Arable farmer: 'great, but what about the remaining 3975 acres though?'</p><p></p><p>Devonian cattle farmer: 'ahhh well.... I'll give eeee a call about mid December about shiftin the rest...'</p><p></p><p></p><p>Flogging to a merchant or a baling contractor with wagons alleviates all this which, I suspect may be enough to cause most arable farmers a coronary on it's own.</p><p></p><p>I would, being the nice guy I am, happily bale my own stuff and let a local farmer buy some for his own use, but doing this in big quantities would be hard work. If you have your own baler you are the king of the hill but waiting for people to bale and shift it, well, good luck.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ollie989898, post: 7393835, member: 54866"] They form a link in the marketplace. Imagine you are a barley baron in Salisbury plain. You have 4000 acres of standing crops. There are no cattle farmers for probably 20 miles in any direction. You would choose to sell to a merchant because they will pay you and get the straw shifted promptly. Trying to deal with a dozen livestock boys in Devon would be like herding cats each of whom believe they can probably get a better deal somewhere else first. Arable farmer: 'Would you like to buy some straw..?' Devonian cattle farmer: 'Ahhhhhhhhhhhhh... well.... see, I mightn't need as much as last yeer, well, maybe 25 acres then, if it's nice and bright, shiny and bright and shiny like' Arable farmer: 'great, but what about the remaining 3975 acres though?' Devonian cattle farmer: 'ahhh well.... I'll give eeee a call about mid December about shiftin the rest...' Flogging to a merchant or a baling contractor with wagons alleviates all this which, I suspect may be enough to cause most arable farmers a coronary on it's own. I would, being the nice guy I am, happily bale my own stuff and let a local farmer buy some for his own use, but doing this in big quantities would be hard work. If you have your own baler you are the king of the hill but waiting for people to bale and shift it, well, good luck. [/QUOTE]
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