It's been low for a long time. What do you hear about scrap prices?

$60 a ton here in northern UT. Just took some down last week.

Check on scrapmonster.com for current market. A month ago, my last load of prepared #1 I only got 50 a ton...but saved my marriage.

Hope it stays low.

Scrap follows the price of fuel.

You can't find an old used cultipacker or parts for one around my area because of the last surge in scrap prices. Every piece of equipment not being used got sold as scrap. I ended up buying a new cultipacker, don't want to do that again soon.

Ok I’m a retired farmer and I have to ask what is a cultipacker! Edk

That's a fancy new one. Jake' is an old Western Land Roller. A lot of chilled cast in all of them. The weight is to break clods.

Used for packing seed in food plots.

5 or 8 years ago when scrap briefly hit $300/ton locally, a banker friend said "Who knew that to clean up the county all we needed was $300 scrap?" People were pulling old cars and equipment out of hollers and fence rows and river bottoms to haul to the scrap yard. BUNCH-O-Stuff went down the road on trailers to be scrapped.

Same thing happened in the place I grew up.

As to the rollers, I'd like to pull two, we have a squadron hitch from corn planters. Too much scratch for twenty acers a year.

Seed to soil contact is important

I’ve dealt with selling scrap a few times in my life. Back in fall of 2010 or 2011, I sold a bunch of scrap metal I picked up between work and the farm we deer hunted on. One day while out hunting, I tripped over a bunch of copper wiring that had been buried. I pulled it up, and sold it and kept the feeders filled with corn from that money.

Scrap price is a barometer on the economy.

No...its a barometer of local theft.

Parts store used to give $15 for an 'old' battery.

Didn't have to buy a new one.


You can guess what happened when the local meth heads figured that one out!

I work at a power company. It’s incredible the danger a meth head will put himself in to swipe .35 cents worth of copper.

My uncle had his sprinkler heads stolen, from his wheel lines a few years ago! They caught the thieves at the scrap yard! Uncle had called the scrap yards in our town and neighboring towns, telling them to be on the lookout for around 500 brass sprinkler heads! The thieves were a father and two sons! Piece of crap, raising more pieces of crap! Scrap in this state now requires ID to scrap over 50$, worth of material.

I scraped some lead the other day .52 ¢/pound. A few years back it was bringing .72 ¢/pound

so low here that i have a pile of washers, dryers and hw heaters. whatever the price is in jan when the weeds are dead, i'm hauling it in. sometimes barely worth the fuel and effort.

Jake's Western Land Roller.

How many times do you go over your farm ground?

What do you mean Wayne? For oats we disk, drill, then roll. The cows eat the stalks down well.

I envy anybody's dirt that isn't red. Black earth is pretty and doesn't stick to everything steel.

So do I, Druggies are not stealing every piece of metal that isn't bolted down .

Didn't know if we were dealing with Clint Courtney or Phil Garner.

Some of them don't win.


The gruesome death by electrocution shown in the photograph at page top occurred when the man shown tried to steal electrical power from a high voltage cable. -

"Just poor farmers that's all we were tryin' to make a livin' out of black land dirt."

Iowa state told me it's the organic matter that makes soil dark black or dark red,

We 've been working organic matter into red clay for hundreds of years in upper central KY, ain't got it to turn black yet.

Not scrap metal but the druggies around here are stealing the heck out of catalytic converters again. Precious metals are still high!

Can always tell when meth cooking is going on locally. Truck batteries get stolen. At least the meth heads that steal mine bring tools to disconnect the cables. The animals that steal my brothers cut the cables and cost him a fortune in repairs.

Must not be very good now. Some scum bags left an old trailer house sitting on a gravel road a few miles away a couple weekends ago. Came back this weekend amd cleaned schitt out of it then set it on fire. Now there is a burned trailer house with no tires sitting on the road.

So do I we had crack heads try cutting transmission lines at a substation a few years ago the one guy was a ball of fire by the time he fell to the the ground. This is from a call I responded to crack heads stole a natural gas furnace and water heater without shutting off the gas

The tires on my truck are over $1,500.00. I won’t drive in a scrap yard for $12.00,