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Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
Better off all cutting back on fert, reduced yields for increased prices imo going forward. There must be a real food shortage looming in the coming years with acres of land going out of food production for trees, flowers, solar parks and house building. Add a worldwide fert shortage with reduced yields and bingo, expensive food.
 

MrNoo

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Cirencester
I am a fan of a big dose early, especially on heavy land where drilling is delayed. This has shown to be very beneficial in getting the crop moving and building biomass. Also when we have a dry early spring (more regularly now) front loading helps. From then on we should get smarter. Maybe this price of N will drive that? The use of N-Testers, leaf analysis, foliar N, timings & rates of N, etc, etc
I have found this the way to go, mentioned to another farmer locally and he tried it and also found it beneficial. Larger lump early doors then a little and often after.
 

Wheatyflake

Member
BASIS
Location
East Midlands
London, 6 October (Argus) — European natural gas prices have increased by 60pc since 4 September, with pricing now over $50/mn Btu, driving fertilizer production costs higher.

A tonne of ammonia cost around $975/t to produce in Europe at the start of the week — if the natural gas feedstock was priced spot using the TTF marker. That same tonne would cost over $1,500/t to produce today. CAN and AN production costs rose similarly.

To produce and granulate CAN today costs more than €200/t more than it did at the start of the week — Argus estimates around €660/t ex-works for granular CAN 27, including around 4mn Btu of granulation costs. CAN prices in Germany were around €468/t cif inland earlier this week.

The cost to produce AN 33.5 rose to €590/t ex-works today from around €375/t ex-works at the start of the week. Prices in France are well below the cost of production for any European producer. These costs are estimated using the production of ammonia on site. Costs would be lower for factories than can import ammonia.

Output has already been severely curtailed at most EU nitrate factories because of challenging economics — despite attempts to raise CAN and AN prices to keep pace with the natural gas price — but the sharp rise in gas prices over the last 24 hours places further strain on the system.

Crop economics at current grain and nitrogen prices suggest there will be demand destruction in the spring campaign. Further increases to nitrogen prices are necessary for supply to be maintained but will exacerbate this situation.
 

JACK F

Member
Location
Essex
Just had a call for urea. £620 per tonne now. Crazy.
Nearly 6 months until need it so will sit it out and see if things settle down. Will surely be reduced demand for product at these sort of prices. Cant see it getting higher but had same thoughts last week at £525 per tonne.
 

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Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


quote: “Red Tractor has confirmed it is dropping plans to launch its green farming assurance standard in April“

read the TFF thread here: https://thefarmingforum.co.uk/index.php?threads/gfc-was-to-go-ahead-now-not-going-ahead.405234/
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