[robert waddell]

51 bales to the ton
£6-12 shillings per bale or £6-60 pence    on figures supplied by waterhouse

[waterhouse]

Rounding errors makes it £6.75 (six pounds fifteen shillings) per outrageously expensive bale, which makes the wonderful haylage I got for £6.20 per bale seem really cheap.  However, 72 bales at £6.20 is a big cheque to write.  Here's hoping for a good hay crop in 2011.

Perhaps I can run the car on haylage given where diesel prices are heading.

[Daisys Mum]

I have had 1/3 of a big bale disappear overnight, now either horses were REALLY hungry or someone has helped themselves.

[robert waddell]

is there a trail of hay leading away from the feeding area????near a road?

[faith0504]

thanks for the cost and amount per ton.




pinching hay and straw seems to be getting more amd more popular, that will have taken some doing pinching a third of a bale

[robert waddell]

well once its in the back of a van could you positively identify it

[dyedinthewool]

Wow that's acid.  Ours was 5.54 and 5.67 and the recommended lime dose was 9.6 and 8.3 tonnes per hectare not to be applied at more than 4t/ha at a time.  I have a spinner but the loader is on the same tractor and I didn't fancy shovelling it all by hand into the spinner.

I' m from the 'acres era'  hectares don't mean a lot  so did a Google calculater  2.5 acres = 1.01 hectares; if you use granular Lime apparently you use a lot less per acre/hetare - haven't found that bit out yet... and as you say it has to go on in Two parts - one this year and one next - less is best as too much can lock up the grasses/plants absorbing other nutrients they need.

600kg roughly 11 .81cwt... 1322.77 lbs
 Found out differance between 'conventional lime' and 'granular lime' is all to do with 'microns' and the lime dust going through holes 60 in a square inch (back to imperial) Has to be 150 microns;  for ' Con lime' it has to contain 40% of 150 micron dust a tonne  - which equals to 4cwt of micron dust per tonne - the rest of the ton is made up from finer/larger lumps of lime; 'granular lime' is  made up of dust (150 microns) that has been gunged together into the little balls so we will only need 8cwt per acre,  I think thats right -    To be on the safe side we will do it in two applications over two years - will PH test again before 2nd app.
Re £6.15 shillings (price of current bale) that used to be my weeks wage in late 50's 15/- used to buy a pair of stockings

[ballingall]

Went to get a big bale of hay this afternoon- price increased to £27.50, with possibly going up to £30 later on.....


Beth

[OhLaLa]

Have just paid £42 per large round bale.      Usually we have so much we give it away, but not this year (typical)......

[waterhouse]

Our vet said that someone round here is asking £8 per small bale. Presumably delivered by armoured car.

[littlemisspiggy!]

i should hope so for £8!!!! i would want gold threaded baleing twine aswell for that!!!!!!!!

[belgianblue]

fodder for south east, £10 small baled hay £140 large hay, £18-25 for large wheat straw

[Daisys Mum]

Bl***Y H**L Thats scary prices, I paid £40 for a bale of haylage last week, I have about 60 small bales of hay left which should last about 30-40 days so am going to feed hay and haylage week about.

[OhLaLa]

Lillian - off topic but could you remove or make smaller those moving pics you have on your posts? Migraine making. Ta.

 

Thank you. 

[littlemisspiggy!]

could of cried yesterday when i got 2 large bales delivered...gone up to £30 a bale from £25..i know its not a great deal but its another £10 extra every 2 weeks which i really didnt need!!