What are your thoughts on the fertiliser price s for 2022

Why would you wait that long, we would go after 2 days no problem. Amazing how some people find problems where there are none. It works. There is no reason to question it. Try it and see.

Yep. However I find that embryonic death doesn’t happen until 42 and over, but anything above 32 cuts the guts out of the cows. Luckily we have sorghum to ameliorate the damage.

Have always gone to 14% p when at grass full time, 18 when in at silage. I was feeding more this year as well so perhaps thats part of it. Wpuld max out at 6kgs tho

BIL bought 15 ton of fert today. Was told by rep that there would be a €90 unloading charge. BIL told him he'll unload the truck himself

Merchants and Coops have never made such small margin on fert and are trying to boost their bottom line?

Jaysus ….that’s pulling the piss

It's back 20 years ago a local farmer made a deal to buy straw in shed off a neighbour.

The neighbour had business interests in various places including Isle of Man. Always fancied himself as a high roller.

The farmer comes in with his mf35 and trailer. The neighbour loads the bales and just as payment was to be made, he mentions there's also a loading charge.

The farmer tells him well he can unload the bales off again so. He did so and his name was black guarded to anyone would listen. He lost a customer for all time and other potential new ones.

The neighbours farm was sold a few years after and he moved to I of M full-time.

Edit : more wants more.

I'm putting out 2600gals/acre of slurry today across grazing ground. That's around 30-15-80 per acre. Will I need bother touch these fields with K for rest of year again? Need to think cost wise this year. Ground is index 3 which I think needs 60K/year

Did you get the slurry tested?

Those fert values seem very high.

*Sorry mis calc on N, 1000gals of cattle slurry through dribble bar (in Spring) is apparently 9 units of N, so 2600 gals should give 23 units.

As for the K requirements I'm probably following the book too closely here but at 210 stocking rate, the recommendation I read for grazing ground is 70K/year for index 2, and 40K/yr for index 3. I couldn't get the ideal mix but slurry has to go out and the silage grounds are wet.

My question was more from a point of view does it make a difference if you hit a ground's K requirement in one go, or is it best to hit half in spring / half in summer?

If it's dairy cow slurry. The best you'll get is 6 units/1000g.

And that's lab tested. Field values will be lower.

You posted the answer yourself on the k fears on grazing ground. Better over the year. From the animals point of view.

Different for silage ground.

Have used it. But I only went with one years allocation.

Recommended by those selling it to go for a few years allocation in one go and then no lime needed for that time.

More suited for disc than wagtail spreaders.

Working off of the phone here with "Field Navigator" app, since our patchwork GPS gave up.

It works fine, with just a very odd blemish, but can't bring myself to reinvest in a gps.