Probably on most every farm now .
Do you add more combine capacity ? New is out of the question for the majority of us . Used , well they are overpriced regardless of colour. Dealers smell blood and need to sell inventory but know everyone behind the 8 ball now . Also many used combines on dealer lots were very abused last year with the terrible harvest conditions and could end up costing more than they will actually even take off .
Some dealers will not even rent one for a few weeks anymore and the ones that Will are at $300/hr .
So with #3 and feed wheat , feed barley in the tank, spending more to get it off barely makes any sense . Even canola still dogging below $10 is not great with reduced yields in this area .
Adding a drier now is cost prohibitive and not enough time to do so. Also another huge cost that does not fit with current grain prices.
But doing nothing may be just as costly .
Looking much like last year, spend a fortune to get this crop off and be lucky to break even .
Some tough decisions to be made before we have a chance to get back into harvest with cool damp conditions and days getting shorter all the time .
If one could even remotely trust long term forecasts it would help tremendously. But that is clearly the one most uncertain thing .
If most of us had known there would be 6 weeks of crappy weather back in August a lot of decisions would have been made back then .
Now it’s a lot more stressful with grade losses and for some having to deal with crops flat on the ground like we did last year .
There still is time , yes but the clock it ticking and feed prices are tanking as we speak
The only saving grace last year was that feed prices stayed relatively strong . It makes decisions now much more difficult.
Do you add more combine capacity ? New is out of the question for the majority of us . Used , well they are overpriced regardless of colour. Dealers smell blood and need to sell inventory but know everyone behind the 8 ball now . Also many used combines on dealer lots were very abused last year with the terrible harvest conditions and could end up costing more than they will actually even take off .
Some dealers will not even rent one for a few weeks anymore and the ones that Will are at $300/hr .
So with #3 and feed wheat , feed barley in the tank, spending more to get it off barely makes any sense . Even canola still dogging below $10 is not great with reduced yields in this area .
Adding a drier now is cost prohibitive and not enough time to do so. Also another huge cost that does not fit with current grain prices.
But doing nothing may be just as costly .
Looking much like last year, spend a fortune to get this crop off and be lucky to break even .
Some tough decisions to be made before we have a chance to get back into harvest with cool damp conditions and days getting shorter all the time .
If one could even remotely trust long term forecasts it would help tremendously. But that is clearly the one most uncertain thing .
If most of us had known there would be 6 weeks of crappy weather back in August a lot of decisions would have been made back then .
Now it’s a lot more stressful with grade losses and for some having to deal with crops flat on the ground like we did last year .
There still is time , yes but the clock it ticking and feed prices are tanking as we speak
The only saving grace last year was that feed prices stayed relatively strong . It makes decisions now much more difficult.
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