Hilly
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- Scottish Borders.
Why’s that funny ?Every farm advertised in the fw this week advertised in acres
The giant fert price rise!!!!
- Thread starter Bossfarmer
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This thread implies everybody talks in metric, nobody talks in imperial.
Yep
I put on between half and one and a half bags per acre in two applications on variable rate to mowing grass.
Is that old fashioned enough ?
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- somerset
l went through school at the change over, imperial/metric, so did about 95% imperial, as teachers weren't quite sure !
so, bags/acre, litres/cow, converted mentally back to gals, never been to much of a problem, until recently, i'm stepping back, and sons completely metric !
But it doesn't take either, to know fert price is in super drive. Cheapest l can remember buying N, was £60/tonne, that would have been very early 70's, and little bags, but, if you add in inflation, how different would that be to, todays price. There used to be a formula, price N - extra produce, last time l saw/used it, fert was mid 100's, response was 7:1, which was very cost effective.
so, bags/acre, litres/cow, converted mentally back to gals, never been to much of a problem, until recently, i'm stepping back, and sons completely metric !
But it doesn't take either, to know fert price is in super drive. Cheapest l can remember buying N, was £60/tonne, that would have been very early 70's, and little bags, but, if you add in inflation, how different would that be to, todays price. There used to be a formula, price N - extra produce, last time l saw/used it, fert was mid 100's, response was 7:1, which was very cost effective.
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- Scottish Highlands
Don’t care what units people use as long as they use proper ones and not ambiguous terms like “bags” or “units”. Come to think of it, we are an international website, so shouldn’t use gallons or pints either.
Beer by the 1/2 litre,doesn’t have that certain ring by the bar……. 
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- Scottish Highlands
Beer by the 1/2 litre,doesn’t have that certain ring by the bar…….
At least you’d know how much you were getting - there are at least two different sizes of pint.
I will continue to use what I like thanks. Bags and units used to be the norm so are viewed as fine by many. You do what you want.
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- Scottish Highlands
You only have yourself to blame when you end up with 600kg/ac then.
Why would I end up with that?
- Location
- Montgomeryshire
Maybe because it’s a job to get bags smaller than that now?
But it's me who's doing the calculation in the first place. I know what I mean by a bag. What the Hell has it to do with anyone else?
Nothing wrong kg/acre works for me
DeeGee
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- Location
- North East Wales
I do exactly the same as you with bags per acre, that’s the way I think and I certainly ain’t going to change it at 65.
Does bother me slightly that maybe one day I might say, without thinking, to a contractor’s young driver that I want two bags of Nitram per acre putting on that field.....
Oh I can see where the confusion might occur. I put my own fert on so no confusion. So far......
Good to see the bag police turned up in the end though. Shows they're always alert.
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Nothing ambiguous about bags and units. That’s what they used to teach in the young farmers grassland competitions when I was doing them.
The American potato industry is still all measured in bags.
- Location
- Scottish Highlands
Of course they are ambiguous - a bag is 25kg, 600kg or 1t.
oil barron
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
A bag is 1cwt
Every farm advertised in the fw this week advertised in acres
Thats because farmers would soil their pants at the thought of paying £24,700 for a hectare of grade 3 arable.
But offer them an acre at £10,000 and they'll be all over it like a rash, just to make sure their neighbour doesn't buy it...