What are your thoughts on the fertiliser price s for 2022

2 sides to the ledger....

Don't omit product price from the calculations. In a drought you have no water..we have fertiliser..it just treble the price..

Unlikely to be 25% higher. Near all processing is done off the back of gas in this country and cost of shipping on tip of it. Should of course rise but would be very unlikely to be 25% higher than this year

The fact peak will be a few months into the year may help if energy prices do reduce

Not average for the year tho, if it happens great but wouldn't be banking on it.

All very well and Like the v general advice Tegasc throw out ……but no 2 farms are same and thus decisions need to be made to suit that farm

That hostility wont last long in Brussels when the price of food goes ballistic or the shelves are empty.

Regardless of agriculture in Europe it's unlikely there'll be no food on shelves, it's the poorer classes in developing nations which will see food shortages.

This won't be because they're not producing it but because it's being exported to wealthier nations.

At the end of the day money makes the world go round. The cost of food may rise but Europe will be able to pay for it.

As much as people say they want to promote equality and fairness they only pay what they have to.

Nobody goes into the shop and tell the shopkeeper they aren't charging enough. They'll pay the bare minimum and probably say it's too much. The same applies on a global scale.

The poorer nations have a lot of rich people too, it's them who will benefit from any price increases and not those doing the work.

Greens are anti livestock nothing else. Most greens are vegan by choice and want everyone else to follow suit.

You can just see the traction a meeting of green meps in Europe has had in the calf thread.

Everything will be done to limit and make it harder to keep livestock farming. You only have to see what Mr. Cuff was at. But of course the party had nothing to do with that.

You've farmers out ploughing ground since the 1st of December and before really. All the nitrates from that ground is now being washed into our waterways. But it's plant farming so a blind eye is turned. They'll test the waterways and blame it on the grassland and turn the screw even more limiting slurry spread. Just to make it harder to keep livestock. Which results in more ploughed ground and more nitrates in waterways. But it'll be the fault of whatever grassland is left.

I know - that was the point I was making. Currently the most stressed in terms of food supply are the likes of Northern Ethiopia, Yemen, South Sudan, Afghanistan and the Western Sahel countries. If you have even a passing interest in foreign news it becomes obvious why.

i also mentioned there food chains lack storage etc. which lead to colossal waste etc. that adds to cost.