What are your thoughts on the fertiliser price s for 2022

Maize is a perfect balance for high protein grass silage. As is barley

Ethanol production will not be curbed. Ask any yank would they prefer to forego cheap petrol to help feed Irish cows and 99% will probably answer..where’s Ireland?

Likewise the Germans won’t forego maize to feed digesters to keep Irish cows fed.

This war is the yanks wet dream…it keeps funding to the military industrial complex, strengthens NATO, and they get to fight Putin by proxy. Result!

Ah Alps, don’t be ridiculous!

Barley is concentrated energy, energy that freshly calved cows need.

You do feed ration with a high inclusion of barley or maize no?

I'd easily believe that. The quality of the sheep ration is gone to hell these last few weeks - brown dust with the odd nut through it.. It used to look like muesli before - you'd eat it your self.

I gave up on it and bought nuts because the hoggets were leaving it after them.

Cows will be fine on half what they usually get. The milk tank will be down, but no dairy farmer will go broke, or cows hungry due to a decrease in ration availability. Different matter if we run short of forage.

I got charged 765 for 18:6:12 and 830 for cut sward+s. Think it went up last Friday in the coop tho. That's on account. Might get a bit off when paying plus a bonus back next year

cut sward 860 euro

What is slurry balancer

That's frightening in fairness, not many will be able to stand that

It is but sure what can we do, thats an out farm that I don't spread slurry on so the 3 bags of cut sward will leave it way short of k, I couldn't get a price on 0 7 30 today. I've 5 euro a bale in there for haulage.

With plastic gone up and a land charge added there won't be much change from 50 euro a bale no matter what way you look at it I think.

The price rises are relentless, my vets gone up too, 2 standard enough call outs 300 euro...

Output prices are reasonable and should hopefully rise too but will they match it who knows. Won't panic, no luxuries put the head down and see where we are next year.

I've 1800/acre done Saturday and will be putting out 2 bags of Cutsward then end of month/early April. Similar enough to last year but aiming for earlier cut.

I've alot of bales over so aiming to get what I need in one cut then put silage ground into grazing as early as possible.

I heard this morning that the co-op complained it to Greenvale and the response was "we're happy with it, so buy it or don't"

I'm done with it now anyway - gone to 18% nuts so they can keep their shyte.

It's kinda a bit of both really but weather is a bigger variable. I did soil testing couple years back which showed how we did it here worked for the ground. It's my father's experience that I piggy back on.

For this yr, Silage ground was grazed to mid Nov and won't be grazed this spring. It has a good cover now so for me 1800/acre is sufficient based on how the ground grows. 2 bags of Cutsward then should have get a good cover by mid-end of May.

Last yr, it was 2250/acre with 2 bags of Cutsward which yielded 12.5 bales to acre but this ground was grazed in spring.

Year before was 2600/acre with 2 bags but found that the slurry didn't fully go into the soil & seemed too heavy. Could still see it at baling time even though it was spread nearly 12 weeks. All done with trailingshoe.

Fertilizer production in Europe slowing down due to price of gas.

EU and political leadership could not give a shi7.

Phoned our local Topline this eve where we buy most of our supplies. I think they are in some purchasing group or tied into Grennans. Have most of our requirements but could do with another 2 T of Urea or CAN or Cutsward..

Urea - unable to source any

CAN- none in the yard, but expecting a deliveries in the next few days. Unable to quote a price but expected to be €750+ per ton.

18.6.12 €770 Small amount available

27.2.5.5 €845 1 ton available.

27.2.5.10 non available. Delivery expected as per CAN above...

Will go with 2t of CAN if I can get it at €750.