Are they going up or down, any quotes yet?
Ya It was that bad will be spreading a fair bit of 18's for a good while. PH was very poor as well. Most of it need 4T/ acre. It nearly all got 2T/acre last year. Ya I will have a bit more stock on it this year.
Can 370
Can + s 380
Urea 470
19-0-15 410
Fortnight ago
happy enough I’ve a good shot of years fertiliser bought at good bit less than some prices quoted here….@610 for pu I’ll be buying none
Urea 46% €540 a tonne
Urea 38% 7% sulphur €560 T
Protected Urea 46% €610 a tonne
Protected Urea 38% 7% sulphur €610 T
Really was the new place index 1 and 2? Which was poorer p or k? Are you hoping to stock the new farmer more this year?
18s 495e
10s 555
24s 485
Cash collect
All s except 10s
I use some every year. Soil test on the new place are horrible so it getting virtually all 18-6-12.
Phosphate is usually inly an issue where you are feeding substantial amounts of ration, mainly dairy farmers and lads finishing over the winter
Can with sulphur 410
Protected Urea €610 a tonne
Sounds high……I wonder what was 18:6:12 costing this time last year?
Reality is plenty of farmers buy in small bag form to suit their systems and times they can get out with it.
Do you usually use 18 6 12 every year? Out of curiosity what happens if you breach your p limit?
I did the calculations last year based on the soil test results from 2023 and I plan on buying the same amount of 18-6-12 this year.
If I run into trouble with the Dept, I’d nearly flog the whole lot after the last 6 weeks I’ve put down.
Do you valid soil test results to justify the phosphorus your buying. Lot of lads buying without knowing if they have an allowance
Local place told me they only expect it to go up by 20 or 30 euro if it does and that it should come down again as year goes on.
€530 for 18-6-12 in south-east of the country. Small bags and small amount.
Price only going one way apparently. But then that's what they always say 🙄
first round out a month (half bag/acre )…second round next week going with 3/4 bag …yes it worked
Did you get any of that out yet?
Does it work well with this weather to kick off the grazing ground?
€530 for 18-6-12
Interesting you say that.
Think they the biggest producer in world and would sell themselves as the best.
But I have only ever got lumps off them and last time I bought it drove me mad and was giving out about my bad day to a group of farmers that id often chat and they all told me they wouldn't touch as it rubbish.
I'm thinking it the local place that stock it is the problem
you’ll get it if you ask hard enough …find quality of Yarra fertiliser far superior than any other brand
Thanks. The amidas stuff seems hard got. Can get 38% N and 7.5 S for €485.
bought off Arrabawn back in janurary
Where did you buy the yarra with sulphur? Quoted €510 and that's 40% N and 6% S in Cork. Thanks
And when he is talking to a dairy farmer he will tell him most of his business is dairy ration and there would be no business without dairy farms.
Those lads just tell people what they want to hear
That’ll all change now that we are getting good beef prices. We’ll start getting notions!
Was paying my local Miller recently and he passed the comment that dry stock farmers are much easier deal with and far better payers than dairy people.
Fair Enough on the purchasing groups. I was more talking about the large farmers and contractors really. Our local purchasing group were telling me one day that some mill wouldn't quote purchasing groups anymore as a policy.
I’d doubt what you say is true there for most part ….good purchasing group will weed out the messers very quick …they get good deals because of big orders ,less drops and payment deals agreed upfront
We're in a purchasing group and in the last couple of years especially when cash flow was tight with both farmers and merchants it's the direct opposite than what you say. With our group there's big orders and promt payments and every merchant in our catchment area compeats strongly for business and in tight times further away merchants actively contact us looking to be included in tenders. A since retired branch manager told me that it's so lucrative especially for chemicals that we pay them before they actually pay the wholesalers.
I'd Say alot of people are sick of dealing with those large farms. They want the lowest price, best service and they are bad payers in general. Some contractors I know now wouldn't bother with them. Similarly there are mills now that just will not quote for purchasing groups.
