Who do you sell your grain to?

[teslacoils]

For all the revolutionary chat on this forum it is interesting to note the identity of the runaway winner on this poll.....

Tbh they've got most of up here sown. Moreso if vivergo opens up. They may be £1 or so cheaper but decent hauliage; best homes for feed grain; and I never, ever have to think twice about the money coming in on the day.

 

[MrNoo]

As you say loyalty is not rewarded and if anything, any loyalty in agriculture is taken for granted. That goes for everything from inputs, machinery, insurance and then again in our produce sales. It’s just so frustrating that we’re bottom of the food chain, literally!

Agreed, I use a great little outfit, you actually get a personal service, sure they may not be top of the pops re prices but I would rather a decent service over that. Get all my fert, most seed from them too and when the big boys tell you a certain variety sold out two months ago, my merchant always comes up trumps. I think this is where the big boys fall down in some respects

 

[Best Bidder]

Does graindex cover non assured?

i believe you can list non assured

 

[Darius_Jedburgh]

One the golden-goo$e of the Warburtons supply deal flies the co-op/coop to new Frontiers, the good-ship Openfield are going to need many, many more willing farmers to trade their grain with them, if their current execs are going to keep raking in the £££-mega-bunce to keep them in the fine manner and well feathered beds they have become so accustomed to.........

 

[matthewizod]

Dad sells most of ours through robin appel after being messed about by many of the bigger names. Always seem competitive on price and lorries turn up when they say they will.

Treat us well and flexible when it gets to those awkward tonnage at the end of the heap

 

[chaffcutter]

Very annoying to be charged weighbridge charge when the truck has rolled off our ‘bridge 2 hours before, the difference in weights is usually + or - 20kgs because they are calibrated in 20 kg steps.

 

[Will 1594]

Any one use dewing grain ,super small outfit

 

[KennyO]

Very annoying to be charged weighbridge charge when the truck has rolled off our ‘bridge 2 hours before, the difference in weights is usually + or - 20kgs because they are calibrated in 20 kg steps.

Perhaps it is time that we all started to charge a 'loading charge' or even better a 'paperwork charge' and a 'using my pen charge'.....

 

[Steevo]

Perhaps it is time that we all started to charge a 'loading charge' or even better a 'paperwork charge' and a 'using my pen charge'.....

Surely all it needs is a "guess the weight of the load" competition.....if you can guess the weight of the load when it gets to their weighbridge you win £100, if you lose, they get to charge their £8.25 weighbridge fee!

Not cheating allowed of course because all mill sampling intakes are fully independent and audited as such....!

 

[Gerald_Humpington]

I use a couple of nice independent guys down here Migrain and Robin Appels, got abit of storage at co-op, so deal with one of them conglomerates.

If you're having problems with weighbridge charges, speak to your local NFU rep- their always happy to help

 

[farmerm]

he/she who pays best on the day.... I try to share sales and purchases between a few smaller businesses were I can. If we give it all our trade to those top 6 the smaller ones we will eventually only be left with those top 6... and then 6 will become 5, 4, 3..... Too much power now held in the hands of too few and we will really be held by the balls then! No single conglomerate should be allowed to gain more than 10% of the market, the power to ensure that is the case lies entirely with us!

 

[teslacoils]

I had a fixing for a load of barley cancelled about five minutes after I'd tipped the last bucket in. Sometimes it's just a sh!t day for the merchant too.

 

[Feldspar]

I've sold a lot of grain through Graindex this year. And the price spread has been quite an eye opener. Have more than a few times got £5-10/t more than who we otherwise would have sold to. I'm told this year is somewhat exceptional in this respect, but I'd spent a long time saving the odd % on inputs, but making the odd % on outputs is much more rewarding. I still think the most powerful tool us weak and divided farmers have in a world dominated by big players is to get multiple bids / quotes, and lots of them. Often it's the 4th or 5th quote that is the one you want.

 

[Flat 10]

I use a couple of nice independent guys down here Migrain and Robin Appels, got abit of storage at co-op, so deal with one of them conglomerates.

If you're having problems with weighbridge charges, speak to your local NFU rep- their always happy to help

What they will cancel them?! While they are at can they hit bloody red tractor on the head too?!

 

[Flat 10]

Very annoying to be charged weighbridge charge when the truck has rolled off our ‘bridge 2 hours before, the difference in weights is usually + or - 20kgs because they are calibrated in 20 kg steps.

If you are a public weigh they should accept your weight? Doesn’t seem fair really, if they want to double check they could but not charge you? £8 a load adds up to a lot of money. Surely mills make money on this? At 10/hr that’s £80/hr £640/day, 250 working days a year £160k pa. I don’t know what the annual calibration costs of a weigh bridge are but I bet it’s not that much. And yes I know you have to pay someone to man it.

 

[chaffcutter]

We aren’t a public weigh bridge as we didn’t want a large volume of heavy traffic using our narrow lane and single track drive, apart from the problem of staffing it for the required hours. Also there was/ is? another long established one on a trading estate only a couple of miles away.
It is however calibrated by Trading Standards and checked regularly.

 

[willy]

Toseland grain and frontier 50/50

 

[Woldsman]

One the golden-goo$e of the Warburtons supply deal flies the co-op/coop to new Frontiers, the good-ship Openfield are going to need many, many more willing farmers to trade their grain with them, if their current execs are going to keep raking in the £££-mega-bunce to keep them in the fine manner and well feathered beds they have become so accustomed to.........

I think the board should have a re shuffle and get rid of the current exec's. Very sad to see a UK co-op be drained by 400k plus salaries to people who bring nothing to the party !!

 

[herman]

We sell to Frontier, ADM and more and more directly to other farmers, by far the best way.
Unfortunately the local poultry farm closed down a couple of years ago, they had most of our wheat that we carted ourselves.
Only needed merchants for OSR and surplus grain in those days.

 

[The Insider]

One the golden-goo$e of the Warburtons supply deal flies the co-op/coop to new Frontiers, the good-ship Openfield are going to need many, many more willing farmers to trade their grain with them, if their current execs are going to keep raking in the £££-mega-bunce to keep them in the fine manner and well feathered beds they have become so accustomed to.........

I hear more staff leaking away from the House of Orange, had enough apparently. Shame it's not the top brass.