what price have you contracted at?

[Headless chicken]

Curious to see where others have fixed feed for autumn 24-spring 25.
we’ve not covered anything yet and suspect wheat can’t get any lower. Don’t want to have my pants pulled down

 

[Beef farmer]

The Mills are not competitive at the moment. They want more than this winter with cheaper inputs.
Soya/rape/wheat/barley/maize all less than 12 months ago, yet cake 20 quid more.

 

[sidjon]

I've been told to wait, by someone who hopefully know more that me🫣, protein will drop more yet.

 

[Bald Rick]

Curious to see where others have fixed feed for autumn 24-spring 25.
we’ve not covered anything yet and suspect wheat can’t get any lower. Don’t want to have my pants pulled down

Doesn’t really matter as they’ll call force majeure if wheat rises much above your contracted price. Had that game played on us last year.
Oddly, never works in reverse

 

[Kiss]

We’ve fixed until September,

I had a contract i thought would get called force majeure in 2022, priced and fixed on they stuck to their word. If they hadn’t it’d been the last load they blew here!

 

[Headless chicken]

Doesn’t really matter as they’ll call force majeure if wheat rises much above your contracted price. Had that game played on us last year.
Oddly, never works in reverse

This was my worry. I hadn’t contracted that year and i don’t think I was any worse off

 

[Headless chicken]

The Mills are not competitive at the moment. They want more than this winter with cheaper inputs.
Soya/rape/wheat/barley/maize all less than 12 months ago, yet cake 20 quid more.

barstewards!

 

[Beef farmer]

Doesn’t really matter as they’ll call force majeure if wheat rises much above your contracted price. Had that game played on us last year.
Oddly, never works in reverse

You deal with sharks, expect to get bitten. No reputable firm would do that

 

[Bald Rick]

You deal with sharks, expect to get bitten. No reputable firm would do that

Was a big fish … very big fish

 

[Kiss]

Was a big fish … very big fish

Carrs not quoted them since

 

[Bald Rick]

Carrs not quoted them since

Bigger fish than Carrs. Much bigger

 

[Headless chicken]

Carrs not quoted them since

Wynnstay and Forfarmers both did I believe

 

[JES]

Been offered current blend May to Oct £3/t more than current price.

 

[Milkcow365]

Been offered current blend May to Oct £3/t more than current price.

That’s mad

 

[nonemouse]

That’s mad

Was having this conversation on Saturday morning, best the mills seem to be able to offer is stand on, on price. Yet raw materials are a lot cheaper than when we booked the winter run.

 

[Beef farmer]

We're seriously considering a blend of barley/beet/soya/mins
We've the shed to store, and means to get it in the bin, just do not want to hamper cow flow.
3 way blend as above is 40 quid cheaper than the lower end cake quotes.
90 quod cheaper than similar spec cake

 

[Headless chicken]

We're seriously considering a blend of barley/beet/soya/mins
We've the shed to store, and means to get it in the bin, just do not want to hamper cow flow.
3 way blend as above is 40 quid cheaper than the lower end cake quotes.
90 quod cheaper than similar spec cake

we feed blend in parlour at a max of 2kg a head. I suspect you’d get up to 3kg without major problem on cow flow.

 

[Kiss]

I’d be trying a different mill weve a £20 drop on same ingredients

 

[bigw]

I've gotten feed, fertiliser and electricity all badly wrong over the last 18 months so

 

[Homesy]

We're seriously considering a blend of barley/beet/soya/mins
We've the shed to store, and means to get it in the bin, just do not want to hamper cow flow.
3 way blend as above is 40 quid cheaper than the lower end cake quotes.
90 quod cheaper than similar spec cake

That's all I feed in the summer. I add 2-3% molasses to dampen the dust.
Why will it hamper cow flow ?