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Combine sieves for the quiz question, I can’t understand why straw is not making any money this year too. Around here it’s burnt in power station’s. Fenland Rob
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What's the verdict on the hay cap jobs? Any good?
I don't think I've ever come across anyone who gets as many punctures as you lot.
Hi Olly
Quiz = combine sieves
Get in contact with local meat and dairy producers, see if you can make an agreement to supply straw then get it back as muck.
Make your money on the other end as input savings.
They cut bedding and feed costs, you cut input costs. Everybody’s happy 🤷♂️
Stock farmers can’t afford to keep them in feed so are keeping less. Pig farmers worst affected. It’s just economics in the livestock industry. The best some stock farmer can do is trade straw in return for the dung but only works locally with fuel prices where they are.
Will it be because farmers are already feeding winter ration in some areas of the country and can't justify bringing in more stock? Over wintering or fattening costs making it unsustainable so no need for bedding straw? Genuine question. Follow every video Olly.
If your weather station is full of water it means it’s raining 😂
Hi Olly could you please message me in regards to your straw situation please
Nutritionalists are telling cattle men that their grass silage this year will have enough fiber due to it having more stem and less leaf after the weather this year. That’s 1 reason. We need to chop the straw for few years. It’s worth more as fertliser anyway. When there’s a shortage of it… watch the price and demand increase.
straw walkers i htink in combine
Living in the east side there is no shortage of straw caused by the drought as it hit later. In our area the bottom price is set by what the power stations are paying. Don’t know what it is but no where near £100. As with all commodities the price will be what the market dictates by supply and demand. Huge areas have been chopped but still plenty of bales about so can’t see it getting much past £50 any time soon. Beef is a good price but if I was paying £100 for straw I would be using a hell of a lot less.
We use rushes to bed the cattle and sheep
olly the photo with the becoen u should put it up
Twist the top of the weather station to unblock it they say to clean every 3 months I would give the rocker on the inside I clean aswell
As beef farmers, we are using home grown and baled hay for bedding and have done for last three years, works for us!!
Quiz a combine sieve. I would think one of the problems re the straw price is farmers not keeping livestock. Dairy and pigs tend to be slurry and the beef job is like the arable job being replaced by eco friendly government sponsored policies. Farmers being paid to reduce production.
Sell to Drax or similar company for power station consumption 👍
Hi Olly, I enjoy the channel. When was the summer barley planted?
You think straw is cheap now? Try £12/ton in 2001 when I had stacks of Hesstons all over the place trying to sell it!
fingers crossed its the sieves on back of the combine
Back of the combine
The problem with straw is farmers cant afford £100 a tonne at the moment because all the other inputs are so high this is one of the products that they can get away without using so much luckily at our dairy we make our own feeding barley so can make our own straw at the same time
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You are in the wrong place, haulage the killer
Straw is not worth much because every man and his dog have baled their straw this season.
I’d love all that straw 😍 keep me going for ages!
Cash flow and haulage issues ie cost and capacity are the straw prolems
Put some vulcanising gel in the tyre plug kit, makes the laces slip in easy & the tool pull out with ease as well & it makes the lace plug fuse.
£100 a ton just for cattle to shit on in every livestock farmers view is just a massive waste of money. Especially when all of our other inputs have gone up so much. We are only a small beef farm and we use 1 ton a day. So at 100 per ton..30 ton per month that is £3k per month. There seems to be a disconnect from arable farming and livestock.
Straw is supply and demand. And it's not worth 100 a tonne because of no demand. Also literally everyone baled it this year. You'd see on Facebook one day people saying if they don't get x for straw they were chopping it then 2 days later it'd be swathed and for sale with no buyers so they end up dropping and dropping price.
End of the day this min till system doesn't suit having a layer of chopped straw year after year.