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The cost of bales

  • 16-04-2011 4:36pm
    #1
    thetiredfarmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 151 ✭✭


    Anyone book the contractor yet? I hear baling and wrapping will soon be too dear to contemplate! Plastic at €83/roll & diesel @ 89cent a litre?A new pit is starting to look very inviting !


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  • #2
    babybrian
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭babybrian


    yeah its expensive alright, maybe a wagon might be handy too...
    If a roll of plastic has gone up that much, surely a silage pit cover is gone up in price too!


  • #3
    poor farmer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 446 ✭✭poor farmer


    using the same covers for the past five years.anyway a €120 cover will cover 50 -60 acres of silage


  • #4
    Casinoking
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 474 ✭✭Casinoking


    Mow it yourself, wilt it well and get fewer bales of higher DM. 10 bales/ac @ €10/bale to bale and wrap inc. plastic = €100/ac. According to reports pit silage will be between €100 and €125/acre this year and you'll end up with a lot more water in your feeding. I never understand the philosophy that pit silage is a lot cheaper than bales. Surely you have more control over the quality with bales, which must be worth something.


  • #5
    Bizzum
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,034 ✭✭✭Bizzum


    Maybe if we start getting half decent summers hay might be more popular again!


  • #6
    straight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,222 ✭✭✭straight


    What about investing in a mixer tub? Would that save alot of silage?


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  • #7
    Muckit
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,174 ✭✭✭✭Muckit


    straight wrote: »
    What about investing in a mixer tub? Would that save alot of silage?

    How would that save silage? Or does the silage double in quantity or quality when you put into one of those?

    A lad at work told me about his neighbour who went and bought one. He was saying they were 'the business'. He never had stock like them before he bought one.

    It never occurred to him that it was the ration he was adding to the mixer, that he wasn't feeding them before, that was doing the trick:rolleyes:


  • #8
    straight
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,222 ✭✭✭straight


    Muckit wrote: »
    How would that save silage? Or does the silage double in quantity or quality when you put into one of those?

    A lad at work told me about his neighbour who went and bought one. He was saying they were 'the business'. He never had stock like them before he bought one.

    It never occurred to him that it was the ration he was adding to the mixer, that he wasn't feeding them before, that was doing the trick:rolleyes:

    Well there's less waste of silage because there is less of it thrown out and by mixing the silage with straw or something like beet pulp or brewers grain there is also less silage being used. Hence saving silage and as you said better condition stock. :rolleyes:


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