Who’s trying to fill the clamps this year?

[Kingofgrass]

With clamps empty everywhere who’s trying to get extra acres this year ?
A lot of people round here allready trying to rent more for this year, best iv heard so far is £650/acre for maize and allready paid up front for the next 3years....crazy

 

[Headless chicken]

Well have in the region of another 100-120 acres this year. Normal terms.

Is the £650 just the land or the crop?

 

[Still Farming]

All be trying if dry and heat starts now?

 

[Kingofgrass]

Well have in the region of another 100-120 acres this year. Normal terms.

Is the £650 just the land or the crop?

Crop,I’m trying to get some more maize

 

[Still Farming]

Location may help ?

 

[TomB]

With clamps empty everywhere who’s trying to get extra acres this year ?
A lot of people round here allready trying to rent more for this year, best iv heard so far is £650/acre for maize and allready paid up front for the next 3years....crazy

Sounds like Cheshire pressure. If we have a normal year we’ll have too much, have increased areas of grass, whole crop and maize to hopefully fill us up. Thinking that if I do have too uch of a surplus it could probably find a home at an ad plant.

 

[Kingofgrass]

Sounds like Cheshire pressure. If we have a normal year we’ll have too much, have increased areas of grass, whole crop and maize to hopefully fill us up. Thinking that if I do have too uch of a surplus it could probably find a home at an ad plant.

Yeah Cheshire pressure,I can only remember seeing the back of our clamp when I was a kid,I think the silage were on at the moment is about ten years old bloody good stuff tho.i was guna rip couple of grass fields up for some maize but I think I’ll leave them and find somewhere else for some maize

 

[pappuller]

Sounds like Cheshire pressure. If we have a normal year we’ll have too much, have increased areas of grass, whole crop and maize to hopefully fill us up. Thinking that if I do have too uch of a surplus it could probably find a home at an ad plant.

Be better culling the poorest 10% in the herd.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Haven't even started to feed 2nd cut yet.

 

[pappuller]

Haven't even started to feed 2nd cut yet.

Serves you right for having excellent growing conditions last year

 

[alan6430]

Not much chance of that around here, no spare land. We are surrounded by sea and veg and daffodil growers. Very disheartened not being able to push forwards

 

[Blue.]

With clamps empty everywhere who’s trying to get extra acres this year ?
A lot of people round here allready trying to rent more for this year, best iv heard so far is £650/acre for maize and allready paid up front for the next 3years....crazy

What tonnes per acre maize would you be looking at in your area?

 

[pappuller]

Not much chance of that around here, no spare land. We are surrounded by sea and veg and daffodil growers. Very disheartened not being able to push forwards

Similar position here, but certainly not disheartened, would the option be to up sticks and move on ? Land values are ridiculous round here, sometimes better to cash your chips when the goings good and see if you can buy double elsewhere

 

[Beef farmer]

Try every year

 

[egbert]

All be trying if dry and heat starts now?

well, don't know that I like...but it's becoming a concern

 

[TheRanger]

Struggling to sell surplus silage in Scotland

Lots of 1000 ton plus pits full for sale

 

[bigw]

Haven't even started to feed 2nd cut yet.

We haven’t fed any 1st or 2nd cut from last year yet, currently on stuff made in 2017.

 

[betweenthelines]

Not much chance of that around here, no spare land. We are surrounded by sea and veg and daffodil growers. Very disheartened not being able to push forwards

As Marie Antoinette may have said "Let them eat Daffs"

 

[Agri Spec Solicitor]

We have been letting most of the farm on grazing and mowing licences since 1971 so we have a fair idea of values. Long story but his year we have 25 acres of hybrid winter barely in N Cumbria. We want rid of it early in the harvest season to allow reseed we missed last year. I guess it depends on local area but could anyone please let me know what an average crop would make for whole-crop? I have no knowledge of it being traded locally. If there is no margin we could always combine it, sell the grain, and keep the straw. Thanks.
To answer the OP our pre season enquiries suggest there are empty barns to be filled though last year was the best season in my lifetime on this farm.

 

[24/7 farming]

It's mad, worst year here in years to try and get rid of silage. We got preached too all last summer to preserve every blade of grass going as the country was going to have a major shortage of fodder, so we made a bit more than normal, most years we would sell 30-40% of what we make anyway. Ended up we didn't house cattle till December, more due to ground conditions than grass growth (usually housed in October) and down south cattle are back out again nw, and if I had lighter animals they could be out too as the fields r thick with grass. So I already have next years silage sorted cos I won't use half of what was made this year and there appears to be no market for it!! [emoji53]