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Price of Grass / Silage

  • 24-09-2009 8:37am
    #1
    Username John
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    Hello all,

    A neighbour of mine took a field of grass for bales there last week. It was old pasture, but good enough stuff, heavy cut.

    He cut, baled & wrapped it himself.

    Just be interested in hearing in your view(s) on what a fair price is, for both buyer and seller. I guess a price per bale is the fairest?

    Thanks.


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  • #2
    ravima
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    how about €100 per acre? that what twas going my way.


  • #3
    reilig
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    ravima wrote: »
    how about €100 per acre? that what twas going my way.

    I agree with this price. I paid €10 per bale for meadow earlier this summer.


  • #4
    Username John
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    reilig wrote: »
    I agree with this price. I paid €10 per bale for meadow earlier this summer.

    Thanks for responses - much appreciated.

    10E per bale seems expensive tho - wouldn't this work out to be more than 100E per acre. I guess what am saying is 10 bales per acre seems low?

    We haven't cut round bales in a long time though, so maybe 10 fusion bales per acre, which are apparently bigger / heavier than the standard bale?


  • #5
    reilig
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    Username John wrote: »
    Thanks for responses - much appreciated.

    10E per bale seems expensive tho - wouldn't this work out to be more than 100E per acre. I guess what am saying is 10 bales per acre seems low?

    We haven't cut round bales in a long time though, so maybe 10 fusion bales per acre, which are apparently bigger / heavier than the standard bale?

    To be honest, the meadow that I bought was fairly heavy (well it was heavy to me) and after tedding and wilting it for 3 days, I ended up with about 8 to 9 bales per acre. They weren't baled with a fusion baler, but would be the same size.


  • #6
    Tipp Man
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,025 ✭✭✭Tipp Man


    Username John wrote: »
    Thanks for responses - much appreciated.

    10E per bale seems expensive tho - wouldn't this work out to be more than 100E per acre. I guess what am saying is 10 bales per acre seems low?

    We haven't cut round bales in a long time though, so maybe 10 fusion bales per acre, which are apparently bigger / heavier than the standard bale?

    I think 10 is a bit pricey, it is September after all so it won't be like prime first cut no matter how decent the weather is.

    My brother bought a few acres and paid 7.50 per bale (welger baler, very solid bales) last week, i think thats a fair price


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  • #7
    irish_bob
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    reilig wrote: »
    To be honest, the meadow that I bought was fairly heavy (well it was heavy to me) and after tedding and wilting it for 3 days, I ended up with about 8 to 9 bales per acre. They weren't baled with a fusion baler, but would be the same size.

    thats a very good yield considering you tedded it and wilted it for three days , tedding can easily reduce the number of bales per acre by three


  • #8
    reilig
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    irish_bob wrote: »
    thats a very good yield considering you tedded it and wilted it for three days , tedding can easily reduce the number of bales per acre by three

    Thought it was fairly good myself. In fairness, I took 2 cuts off it last year and 2 cuts off it this year and the owner would take no money from me for the second cut bales. I spread slurry on it and the owner bought the fertilizer which I shook on it. (Putting slurry on it is convenient for me in the middle of the winter when the tank starts to overflow cause its just about the driest field in the parish :) ) Its cheap and good quality silage for me - especially this year.


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