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semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wheat

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farmweld

01-27-2005 10:07:27

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my father grandfather n i farm about 400 acres, with generally 80-100 in wheat. we had a guy bale the straw last summer and a friend of ours wanted about 100 bales for horses. this guy wanted to charge 2.00 a bale for OUR straw. i was plantin double crop soybeans and ridning on the back of the drill was my father. he counted that this guy could kick out a bale every ten seconds, this means he cold have baled these 100 bales in what, in about 2 hours, and he wanted to charge 2.00 each. said he had 5.00/ hr in labor and .40/ bale in wire.

last week he called and wanted to bale straw this year, too. we all basicly told him, yea, right. (we had already found a friend that usually bales for us, anyway.)

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Nebraska Cowman

01-27-2005 17:28:19

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Re: semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wh in reply to farmweld, 01-27-2005 10:07:27

No bud, It wasn't your straw, it was his straw once he baled it. I bale straw on shares and insist on at least 75%

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Joel Harman

01-27-2005 12:11:19

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Re: semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wh in reply to farmweld, 01-27-2005 10:07:27

So, am I hearing you have no desire to bale your own straw?

Remember while you were farming, he was baling your straw.

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sammy the RED

01-27-2005 12:03:53

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Re: semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wh in reply to farmweld, 01-27-2005 10:07:27

1 Bale = 10 sec.
6 Bale = 1 minute
60 bale = 10 minute
100 bale = 16.6 minute

Dang fast baler ! ;o]

360 bale = 1 hour
360 x $2.00 = $720.00 per hour.... Not bad $$$ !

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paul

01-27-2005 10:56:20

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Re: semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wh in reply to farmweld, 01-27-2005 10:07:27

I give my oats straw away for $1.10 a bale. Wheat straw would be over $2 a bale here as well. And that is regular twine bales, if you are using wire you might be talking the heavy bales, more straw?

You didn't say now if the guy bought your straw, and then sold the bales to your friend, or if you offered the straw for free. Don't quite understand that part of the arangement.

Regular 30-40# twine bales are often around 50 for the straw laying in the field, 60 for the baling, 50 for moving them, and 40 cents plus for raking, labor, storage, and other bits & pieces like profit. Everyone has a different formula, that's sort of a wild breakdown of a bale price here in southern MN.

--->Paul

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Old Time Farmer

01-27-2005 13:06:17

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Re: semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wh in reply to paul, 01-27-2005 10:56:20

In my part of SE MN, oat straw in small squares is selling from $80 to $105 ton at the local auctions. For 40 lb. bales, that's from $1.60 to $2.10 per bale.

I sold all of my extra straw (about 1800 bales) for $2.00 bale and I help load. Had it all sold in early December.

If you don't want to bale it yourself, probably do better to sell it in the field.

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paul

01-27-2005 15:45:12

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Re: semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wh in reply to Old Time Farmer, 01-27-2005 13:06:17

Kinda went into selling some to a friend, get a favor back again, type of deal. Charged one brother $1.10 a while ago, other one wants 20 bales a year so can't just jack the price up - you know how it goes. :) Works out for me in the end.

--->Paul

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old

01-27-2005 10:37:37

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Re: semi OT- pain in the @## that wants to bale wh in reply to farmweld, 01-27-2005 10:07:27

Thats below ging rate for straw in my area. It sells for $2.50-3 a bale here

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