Wheat straw is scarce and hard come buy I am buying a bit to fill a contract but it's at a good price as I am getting a good price , buying per bale as it's fairer for everyone .
Yep, same setup here, into 8x4x4 and pay per bale.
Around here it nearly all goes to Carbery Mushrooms and the competition for straw is fierce!
You'd laugh but it's surprising the number of enquiries you'd get off lads when they see a square baler standing in a field. Although I freely admit that this year might well be the last of the Cantone, simply because of the hardship of squares. Help is needed with them but hard to come by.
So how much is a 4x4 round bale in Wexford making? This thread went straight sideways!!! Just back from d pub and d last 2 pages just ran through me like d last pint....
Any spare straw we have goes in there . Heard they were bringing in barley straw from the uk as they ran out of Wheating straw ......
All the straw contractors ran out of straw full stop.
They were going to take barley straw as soon as the combines started but changed their mind.
Bringing wheat straw in from the UK in curtain siders. 20 bales per load.
Jasus lads, if you's were as concerned about the main product as much as you are about the by-product :D
Jasus lads, if you's were as concerned about the main product as much as you are about the by-product :D
could do with some 8x4x4/3 of rape if anyone has them
Going a bit of topic, if straw is worth €90 to €100 delivered what is barley worth?
I hope the last comment was very much tongue in cheek!!!!I was offered 16% barley ex field at 125 (@ 20% moisture to be related back) at the start of harvest. I couldnt take it as having a problem with my grain shed as I have a small bit of sweepage from a pit made at the other side of the wall coming in through a crack in the wall. Price has hardened since
Mate bought year supply of imported wheat at €173 in the last week, mainland EU origin only. I taught that to be a tad high. Importers are reluctant to pass on lower imported prices so as to keep a floor on the Irish market thankfully
I hope the last comment was very much tongue in cheek!!!!
why so, Very cheap grain isnt of any benefit to anyone.
Yep, same setup here, into 8x4x4 and pay per bale.
Around here it nearly all goes to Carbery Mushrooms and the competition for straw is fierce!
And fair play to a smaller operation putting it up to the bigger guns.Thats the price bretts have committed to
Will wheat be 10 over then?Green barley will be €140 plus vat imo.
And fair play to a smaller operation putting it up to the bigger guns.
How far up into Meath do you come for straw
This year with the lack of wheat close to us we will have to go as far as needed.
Depends a lot on the acres, 10 acres wouldn't tempt me too far from home!
Will be up as far as Warrenstown so far, so for a decent size patch another hours drive from there would be ok I suppose.
Yep we'll be baling the college again this year.
Its hard to work out what way the big bale business is going- need to do a lot of bales to make any money at all, big balers are not easy to run. Yet new outfits appearing everywhere. Maybe time to go to 4x3 and persuade some cattle men that square is the new round.
Heard of a big contractor up Louth way with 6 balers! Apparently he sends 3 of them to England baling for the season.