Are they going up or down, any quotes yet?
€530 for 18-6-12
Did you get any of that out yet?
Does it work well with this weather to kick off the grazing ground?
first round out a month (half bag/acre )…second round next week going with 3/4 bag …yes it worked
€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 🙄
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.
Do you valid soil test results to justify the phosphorus your buying. Lot of lads buying without knowing if they have an allowance
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 usually use 18 6 12 every year? Out of curiosity what happens if you breach your p limit?
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.
Urea 46% €540 a tonne
Protected Urea €610 a tonne
Can with sulphur 410
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
18s 495e
10s 555
24s 485
Cash collect
All s except 10s
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?
Urea 38% 7% sulphur €560 T
Protected Urea 46% €610 a tonne
Protected Urea 38% 7% sulphur €610 T
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
Can 370
Can + s 380
Urea 470
19-0-15 410
Fortnight ago
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.
why didn’t you go with 3t? By the time you can go with lime again it’ll need another 1t to replace what has been used up. I always spread lime a bit stronger than recommended to give it some buffer
https://www.donedeal.ie/farmsheds-for-sale/sheeting/39174024
Just out of pure noseiness, why would a fella be taking the roof off
Probably going for the see through sheeting
Alot of my place needs lime, was told never to go over 2 tonne at a time. Never questioned it really. Although I wonder how much of it actually lands on the field sometimes
3t is the most you can spread at one time. You’d want the ph up at 6.7 to have any sort of buffer in the ground.
Anything above 6.3 here and you run into serious issues with molydenium locking up copper, mag lime is a big no no aswell turns wet ground even wetter, top dress here with a bag of physiolith yearly on my low lying ground to keep the ph on the first few inches of soil artificially higher then what I need it to be
Any idea what pasture sward is making??, trying to build indexes so it might be a better option than nitrogen
It was 450ish 6 weeks ago. I’d say you’d be better go with 18/6/12 if you are trying to build indexes. Pasture sward will only maintain them.
No I’m going out strong on a certain field with 10 10 20 but I was going to then go with nitrogen but I was thinking pasture sward might be better??
You seem to be way over thinking this ould farming business. Its a marathon not a race. Its a hard life for a perfectionist. Gradual improvement is the way too go.
YYou Be better off using 18-6-12 all the time than switching between 10-10-20 & pasture sward.
Pasture Swards is extremely expensive.
how is it that that massive phosphate discovery in Norway has had no real impact on price?
