fertilizer prices

GERMAN ROCKS

all our fertilizer is nearly gone with only 4 tonne of can left so must order some monday. will probably order enough to see me through to july.are my better to hold back and order enough for the month or anything. any talks of prices rising or falling. what is the price of can now because when i bought in january can was €300 and urea €380.obviously not buying no more urea for the year. also whats the price for 10-10-20 and 18-6-12 at the moment.

babybrian

bought some 10-10-20 last week from liffey mills for €440/T if I remember correctly. Got some 16-5-20 and it was around the same. No idea what CAN is at the moment and no idea if its going up or down, try the back of the farmers journal to see what way it is going. I have my doubts that it will go down considering oil is still high

kevthegaff

liffeys meself CAN 330 and 27 2.5 5 425 i think not sure

snowman707

talks of can dropping ,

not much demand just now i reckon, I would shop around and bargain hard

Tora Bora

Paid €330 for CAN last week. Was asked €355. Had to bargain.

bob charles

CAN 27 €310
UREA gran €380
April prices, would expect a fall next month again

sh1tstirrer

White clover is the answer at most you only need to spread 50 units of chemical nitrogen when you have clover in the sward.

FarmerBrowne

Just about to take a first cut, it is well fertilizered with slurry and fertilizer for the last couple years, this year it got slurry in March and CAN in May, however I was wondering for doing a second cut would it be ok to spread just CAN or would I need to spread Ps & Ks as well?

older by the day

Brought up this old one, I spread a bag of urea every spring, but I don't think it works some years, a couple of bags of 18.6.12 the start of March might be money better spent, any thoughts? What price is urea this year

dohc turbo2

older by the day wrote: »

Brought up this old one, I spread a bag of urea every spring, but I don't think it works some years, a couple of bags of 18.6.12 the start of March might be money better spent, any thoughts? What price is urea this year

405 a tonne on the account in Kerry

alps

older by the day wrote: »

Brought up this old one, I spread a bag of urea every spring, but I don't think it works some years, a couple of bags of 18.6.12 the start of March might be money better spent, any thoughts? What price is urea this year

This one would really make me think twice about early applications. The response looks dismal until weather heats up.

alps

bob charles wrote: »

CAN 27 €310
UREA gran €380
April prices, would expect a fall next month again

Not so bad.....we're only back to 2011 prices at the moment

GrasstoMilk

alps wrote: »

This one would really make me think twice about early applications. The response looks dismal until weather heats up.

Stan Lawler was asked yesterday about early N and to him it is essential for spring growth if ground temps are 5 degrees. But stick to half a bag. Day length is alot shorter now vs say mid March when the return for chemical N us slot higher
Ground atm is 7-8 degrees and grass growing. I think it's a no brainer to go with urea now.
According to Stan if you get a response of over 5kg if growth it's worth while.
If this hard weather is to come that's being talked about I think it's even more essential to give the plant some energy.

mahoney_j

GrasstoMilk wrote: »

Stan Lawler was asked yesterday about early N and to him it is essential for spring growth if ground temps are 5 degrees. But stick to half a bag. Day length is alot shorter now vs say mid March when the return for chemical N us slot higher
Ground atm is 7-8 degrees and grass growing. I think it's a no brainer to go with urea now.
According to Stan if you get a response of over 5kg if growth it's worth while.
If this hard weather is to come that's being talked about I think it's even more essential to give the plant some energy.

Practicality has to come into it too ,no point going with fertliser unless ur going to use its rewards (get out and graze).with ground temps at 7/8 degrees there’s is growth ,I’ll make call this weekend after looking at weather if there is no significant drop in temps in week ahead I’m going with 40 units ,if colder weather forecast it’ll stay in bag for now and just slurry going out ,urea is 380/400 a tonne so no point just throwing it out for sake of it .

Timmaay

mahoney_j wrote: »

Practicality has to come into it too ,no point going with fertliser unless ur going to use its rewards (get out and graze).with ground temps at 7/8 degrees there’s is growth ,I’ll make call this weekend after looking at weather if there is no significant drop in temps in week ahead I’m going with 40 units ,if colder weather forecast it’ll stay in bag for now and just slurry going out ,urea is 380/400 a tonne so no point just throwing it out for sake of it .

27th of Dec was the time to go out with the 30 units or so ideally...

mahoney_j

Timmaay wrote: »

27th of Dec was the time to go out with the 30 units or so ideally...

Lots of mop and Gran lime spread last few weeks I’d say .......

Gawddawggonnit

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/markets-and-trends/input-prices/new-year-opens-with-nitrogen-price-cut

Wonder why Teagasc announced a 15%+ price rise?
It isn’t reflected in prices here also...

alps

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

https://www.fwi.co.uk/business/markets-and-trends/input-prices/new-year-opens-with-nitrogen-price-cut

Wonder why Teagasc announced a 15%+ price rise?
It isn’t reflected in prices here also...

Prices have eased by a little since mid December.

Gawddawggonnit

alps wrote: »

Prices have eased by a little since mid December.

They’re out by around 30%...that’s a fairly crude error margin.


One wonders did they just ask Yara for a ballpark.

alps

Just going to the coop for fert

https://goo.gl/images/woXSj5

Upstream

Gawddawggonnit wrote: »

They’re out by around 30%...that’s a fairly crude error margin.


One wonders did they just ask Yara for a ballpark.

Do they still have the MD of a fertilizer company on their board of directors, maybe they could ask them :rolleyes: