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Wholecrop Wheat

  • 28-07-2013 5:10pm
    #1
    TheSunderz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 338 ✭✭


    Hi guys
    seeing tat de second cut refuses to grow i was considering purchasing wholecrop wheat to fill de pit. Just wondering wat de average price per acre for it would be given a fairly decent crop. Id have a good few tillage men around me nd ive already spotted a few possibly fields, only need bout 12-15 acres of it. Cheers


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  • #2
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭stanflt


    shouldnt have to pay more than 600acre


  • #3
    stanflt
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,677 ✭✭✭stanflt


    wheat 3tonne at 150tonne
    100 euro straw


    eguals 550

    less 50combing charge
    less 30 haulage- 3tonne*10euro

    470 should be a realistic price per acre


  • #4
    freedominacup
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,920 ✭✭✭freedominacup


    stanflt wrote: »
    wheat 3tonne at 150tonne
    100 euro straw


    eguals 550

    less 50combing charge
    less 30 haulage- 3tonne*10euro

    470 should be a realistic price per acre

    As a grower I think I'd take my chances and let it go to harvest at that. It's winter wheat, I think most competent growers would expect 4 tonnes/acre and hope for another half tonne. Mind you as a dairy farmer I'd be buying a lot of acres at your price.


  • #5
    nashmach
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,183 ✭✭✭nashmach


    freedominacup wrote: »
    As a grower I think I'd take my chances and let it go to harvest at that. It's winter wheat, I think most competent growers would expect 4 tonnes/acre and hope for another half tonne. Mind you as a dairy farmer I'd be buying a lot of acres at your price.

    Plus wheat is more than 150 at present and no mention of payment options either.

    Should be 650 to 700.


  • #6
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    good crop @ 4t

    4 X 160=640 + 60 for straw

    combining cost can be put against the higher removal of nutrients taking the crop earlier. So a 4t crop would be worth 700. add in payment protection and it could be a bit more and less risk would drag it back abit so 650 to 700 would be a fair price for 4t crop.


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  • #7
    blue5000
    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 12,754 Mod ✭✭✭✭blue5000


    OP maybe you could do a deal for the headlands on a few fields. That way you are still getting decent enough crop, and the tillage farmer is getting rid of the parts of the fields where crops ripen slower, moisture tends to be higher and corners where spray might not have gone on at full rate.

    Only disadvantage I can think of is crows have a landing strip.

    If the seat's wet, sit on yer hat, a cool head is better than a wet ar5e.



  • #8
    bob charles
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,343 ✭✭✭bob charles


    blue5000 wrote: »
    OP maybe you could do a deal for the headlands on a few fields. That way you are still getting decent enough crop, and the tillage farmer is getting rid of the parts of the fields where crops ripen slower, moisture tends to be higher and corners where spray might not have gone on at full rate.

    Only disadvantage I can think of is crows have a landing strip.

    and on our type ground the headlands will always yield poorer.


  • #9
    Sam Kade
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,313 ✭✭✭✭Sam Kade


    I was looking for seed oats one year for a linnet crop and it couldn't be got. A tillage farmer overheard me asking for it at the co-op and said he had oats left over since last year. When I went to his yard for it he charged seed price for it mean cnut :mad: I said it wasn't dressed or certified and it was only worth feed price but he was having none of it, he knew I was stuck.


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