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price of bales this coming season

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  • 11-04-2010 10:35pm
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    baler
    Registered Users Posts: 49 ✭


    hi lads what do ye think will be the price of round bales of silage off the field this coming season will be


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    Ford4000
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    If its anything like my area at home .....too feckin much !!!!! 13euro a bale cut baled and wrapped last year, how many bales are in a roll of plastic ??


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    vanderbadger
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    about 30 isnt it


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    wiggy123
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    charged 10euro a bale cut baled and wrapped last year. year before was E12
    say this year, should b around the same,i hope!


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    irishh_bob
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    guy that does it on our home farm charges 18 euro per acre to mow and 5.80 to bale and wrap + farmer buys plastic


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    086lavey
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭086lavey


    Bit late on this but , im a silage contractor in the west of ireland ,last year i was charging 11 euro to cut bale wrap and chop using a mchale baler ,this year i have to charge 11.50 , that extra 50 cent is to cover plastic going up by 3 to 4 euro a roll . and the diesel which has risen too ,


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    mossfort
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    086lavey wrote: »
    Bit late on this but , im a silage contractor in the west of ireland ,last year i was charging 11 euro to cut bale wrap and chop using a mchale baler ,this year i have to charge 11.50 , that extra 50 cent is to cover plastic going up by 3 to 4 euro a roll . and the diesel which has risen too ,

    thats sounds a bit expensive. most contractors around our area wont supply the plastic , but will cut bale and wrap it for 6.50 per bale with a mchale baler . there is plenty of competition for work at the moment.


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    Casinoking
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    €6.50 is a bit on the cheap side to mow, bale and wrap in my opinion. Nobody is making money at that, competition for work is all fine and well but there's no point in working for nothing either. I reckon I'll be charging around €8 inc VAT to mow bale and wrap this year, I'm not going to supply plastic anymore unless it's a genuine customer and I'm 100% sure I'll get paid fairly promptly. The co-ops will charge interest on plastic every month no matter what credit terms you have, margins are getting too tight to be carrying that extra cost.


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    086lavey
    Registered Users Posts: 76 ✭✭086lavey


    6.50 euro is very cheap .there is no point been a busy fool , just becaues there is 2 or 3 men up the road doing the same work for right rates !!!!! where i am there is 7 other contractors making bales with in 10 miles of each other, and each of them supplys plastic , same as my self , just because your cheap does not mean your going to busy, at the end of the day if the job is done right and the farmer is happy , you will be busy


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