- Location
- Sedgefield
Question the agronomist brought up yesterday
With a 0:24:24 ish type blend at c£475
Is it worth baling or should we chop chop chop
With a 0:24:24 ish type blend at c£475
Is it worth baling or should we chop chop chop
Good luck with the slugs!chop chop chop
Your agronomist should have given you an answer rather than a question.Question the agronomist brought up yesterday
With a 0:24:24 ish type blend at c£475
Is it worth baling or should we chop chop chop
I'm not convinced there is the huge gain in muck anymore . I'd now rather chop every year than bale for maybe 4 years before it gets the dung back on that acre .Muck for straw
Your agronomist should have given you an answer rather than a question.
At £475//ton there's a simple break-even point at around £100/acre for straw value which the slug effect upon the subsequent crop may reduce to below zero
I'm not convinced there is the huge gain in muck anymore . I'd now rather chop every year than bale for maybe 4 years before it gets the dung back on that acre .
Definitely a no brainer on the muck for straw deal. On the sale stuff I'm thinking if I can buy poultry muck and sell the straw with a decent margin in my favour I would do that.we bale all the winter barley straw
Local lads bale and cart it immediately and clear the field
We have a straw for muck deal on some of the winter wheat straw where the muck boy gets as much straw as he needs and we get all his muck back
Rest or wheat, spring stuff and rape is all chopped
so I think that’s a good balance
A bit of everything
agronomist wants to convince me it’s best to chop everything
The bit I've highlighted in the middle has confused me. I read it as an 8t grain crop would contain.... The straw yield is more likely to be circa 4t, halving the nutrient removal and replacement costs. But I don't immediately recognise 'PDA' so don't know the context.Depends what price you can sell your straw for, and what price you put on vehicles removing the straw and vehicles applying replacement nutrient.
According to PDA:
A hectare of winter cereal straw from an 8 t/ha wheat crop is estimated to contain:
- 8 (t/ha) x 0.6 = 4.8 kg P2O5/ha
- 8 (t/ha) x 4.8 = 38.4 kg K2O/ha
- 8 (t/ha) x 0.6 = 4.8 kg MgO/ha
An application of 0.24.24 at 160kg/ha would supply all the K and 8x the P. At £475/t then that's £76/ha, or £30/ac in product value, minus spreading cost.
The bit I've highlighted in the middle has confused me. I read it as an 8t grain crop would contain.... The straw yield is more likely to be circa 4t, halving the nutrient removal and replacement costs. But I don't immediately recognise 'PDA' so don't know the context.