Who’s selling rape or barley?

[Mr Tree]

Prices falling daily!

advice from merchants very misty!

Do you sell rape now and take the hit from the top or wait in anticipation of a lower price in the next months or so?

Same with barley?

can store a % but some has to go

conundrum

anyone else ?

cheers

 

[teslacoils]

If you cant store it, what choice do you have?

 

[robbie]

It can sit in the shed till next may/June if nessessary.

 

[Mr Tree]

This is it
I can store all short term say til September early October
But I need a percentage then away(50%)

what I’m asking is sell now,today or wait a few weeks for some’bad news’!?!?

I really don’t know which way this year

usually sell sep/oct what I need to but as I say the trade are talking it always to me ….

 

[Flat 10]

Wait. Just gut feeling it will be more in October.

 

[teslacoils]

This is it
I can store all short term say til September early October
But I need a percentage then away(50%)

what I’m asking is sell now,today or wait a few weeks for some’bad news’!?!?

I really don’t know which way this year

usually sell sep/oct what I need to but as I say the trade are talking it always to me ….

Sell for space. Buy an "option" if you want to keep in it.

 

[lloyd]

Weather,weather,weather next question.

 

[ollie989898]

I can't see that there is any reason globally for barley or oilseed prices to do anything but remain in low Earth orbit, only my personal hunch though. Merchants trying to increase margins? I'd sell the bare minimum required for cashflow reasons if it was me.

 

[Hampton]

@Brisel is normally the man with a graph for this!
Has their ever been a time when wheat/barley is worth more for harvest movement in July, than selling forward in may/June.
Price often climbs in aug once wheat yields start to come in, but I can’t remember it ever lifting to a significant degree in july

 

[ollie989898]

 

[teslacoils]

@Brisel is normally the man with a graph for this!
Has their ever been a time when wheat/barley is worth more for harvest movement in July, than selling forward in may/June.
Price often climbs in aug once wheat yields start to come in, but I can’t remember it ever lifting to a significant degree in july

Not that I can remember. The immediate pre-harvest time, until the combines stop, has always been the worst time I can remember for sales.

 

[Right-arm fast]

Not that I can remember. The immediate pre-harvest time, until the combines stop, has always been the worst time I can remember for sales.

I found this to be the case as well. However I think the crops generally could be lighter than people think as most have looked fantastic but it has been so dry.

 

[BrianV]

120 tons of winter barley @ £210 a ton to local livestock guys, we've all got to make a living!

 

[Barleymow]

Sold barley off combine on Tuesday for 229 collected Thursday

 

[jack6480]

Sold barley off combine on Tuesday for 229 collected Thursday

Sorry for your loss

 

[Mr Tree]

Had a text from merchant last night.


Quick reminder on rape moistures - with the hot spell forecast again early part of next week, farmers need to be careful to keep rape moisture ABOVE 6%.
Below this the extracted oil is often unusable and loads will be subject to rejection.

Will the impending heat impact the saleability of the U.K. crop ????

 

[ollie989898]

Had a text from merchant last night.


Quick reminder on rape moistures - with the hot spell forecast again early part of next week, farmers need to be careful to keep rape moisture ABOVE 6%.
Below this the extracted oil is often unusable and loads will be subject to rejection.

Will the impending heat impact the saleability of the U.K. crop ????

Big stores can soon up the moisture with a hose pipe set to mist!

 

[quattro]

Sold some barley at £310 some at £325

 

[Flat 10]

Sold barley off combine on Tuesday for 229 collected Thursday

i wish they'd collect my forward sold stuff at much less than that.

 

[Flatlander]

Had a text from merchant last night.


Quick reminder on rape moistures - with the hot spell forecast again early part of next week, farmers need to be careful to keep rape moisture ABOVE 6%.
Below this the extracted oil is often unusable and loads will be subject to rejection.

Will the impending heat impact the saleability of the U.K. crop ????

I’d rather combine and store osr at 6% than 10. Easier to run a cooling fan at night to remove heat than for a few weeks trying to dry it only to have it heat up and cause headaches. lots would be cut here below 6 percent and never an issue. Just another way to screw farmers in a very dry year.