Spring Crop Choices in the UK

[parsley]

Winter Group 1 Solstice/Malacca
***ALL QUOTES IN BRITISH POUNDS***


Single Farm Payment 210
Projected Nov Price 160
Projected Yield/Hectare 9.5
Crop Output/Hectare 1520
Total Output/Hectare 1730
Seed 50
Ferilizer 150
Crop protection 160
Total Variable Cost/Hectare 360
Gross Margin/Hectare 1370





Winter Group 2
***ALL QUOTES IN BRITISH POUNDS***


Single Farm Payment 210
Projected Nov Price 145
Projected Yield/Hectare 9.7
Crop Output/Hectare 1407
Total Output/Hectare 1617
Seed 50
Ferilizer 140
Crop protection 160
Total Variable Cost/Hectare 350
Gross Margin/Hectare 1267


Enlightening?

There is one Canadian institution that needs a thorough colonoscopy.

Parsley

[jensend]

i think it's zimbabwe that has 66,000% inflation rate. you might want to look at their cropping margins. i'll bet their awesome and only slightly less relevant. they have a ten million dollar note now (about $2 canadian) but i'll bet they have a high per centage of billionaires in their population.

[jensend]

sorry i misspoke. their inflation rate is now over 100,000% so their margins are probably still increasing. have a good day.

[parsley]

This -40 global warming freezing weather is making you a slight bit edgey.

Try salt peter.

Parsley

[jensend]

no if you want to bring up silly, incomplete, invalid comparisons i can give you even more to bitch about. never tried the salt peter and i doubt you had to hand out much, anyway but you should maybe replenish your meds. good luck.

[Lifer]

You have the ink refill kind? neat.

[jensend]

never heard of it. want to fill us in? i don't know why old paisley hauls that one out. maybe it's still popular in her crowd!

[charliep]

Trying to keep on topic and failing.

The presentation was about creating opportunities for malt barley in the UK. Value chain relationships are considered a necessity by all members of the supply chain.

What is happening in Canada to be more competitive in growing malt barley and enhance signals along the supply chain? Or is everyone in the supply chain your enemy to be mistrusted and bad mouthed. Sorry ranting.

Will note Chinese brewers are reducing the amount of malt barley used in beer and have even developed beers (or near beers) that use no malt barley.

[cottonpicken]

We'll have 100,000% inflation someday.

[parsley]

I guess I made an error, as I was confused, in that it is epsom salts which is administered for an appetite which causes upset stomach. Carelessness. Sorry, charliep.

jensend, these charts are not about comparisons, although I did note an enticing high price or two, that make the CWB prices seem, ah, er, in the toilet.

Look at the charts, though.

The FARMER cna make a choice,

He can contract or not.

He can pick what is beneficial for his rotation.

He can choose to not grow for these available markets. Or grow.


Novel idea, isn't it?



Parsley

[jensend]

still not a valid comparison unless you discount the direct per hectare payment and then go from gross margins to actual nets because they will have different cost structure. can always count on you to take the discussion to a lower level once i discredit your premise. bye, now.

[bluefargo]

Just got back from Europe.
Lovely interesting place.

But I couldn,t see much in that crowded, obsenely subsidized and highly protected area that we can relate to here in terms of agriculture. I,m not saying it,s doesn,t affect us. Just a different world.