Inside: Milk & Food

What does a higher price for silage maize tackle?

10 January 2017 - Redactie Boerenbusiness

At the beginning of January, the trade in silage maize was still at a low level. However, an increase in demand is still taken into account. However, it does not have to result in higher prices. Boerenbusiness Feed about developments in animal feed prices.

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However, there is less supply. However, due to the moderate demand, it has not yet resulted in a vote. There is less supply, especially from the border area close to Germany. Much of the product appears to be gone. Something that is encouraged by the lower yields during harvest. What is available appears to be of good quality. 

Yet there is no immediate reason for concern, because prices are kept in check by the supply of alternative products. For example, the price of wheat was able to increase slightly, but it is far from impressive, meaning that prices of alternative products barely increased. This means that there are sufficient alternatives to use if the price of silage maize rises too much. 

It is now quiet in the silage grass. However, the quality appears to be poor in more and more places. An explanation for the milk production that does not want to flow smoothly. On top of that, it looks like the cows are not completely fit everywhere. Which means that it is not the money-for-less-milk scheme and the phosphate reduction plan that are showing their teeth, but other counteracting factors. It will be exciting to see what will happen in the spring when the cows start calving.

The moderate silage grass is supplemented with structural products, which are especially noticeable in the straw. For example, the underprice for uncut wheat straw is 110 euros per farm free. For cut product, the price is more likely to be 120 to 125 euros per tonne. The enthusiasm for barley is slightly less than in other years, which means that the premium is also less high.

Hay prices are more stable. For example, meadow hay is worth 140 to 180 euros per tonne, free of charge. Grass seed hay prices also remain stable at 125 to 140 euros per tonne free at farm.  

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