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county down

Member
Location
downpatrick
Personally I don't understand anyone buying CF fertiliser? I will never buy it ever again. They put the price up £200/t overnight by stopping production.

They then held the UK government to ransom ceasing C02 production. Received 10s of millions from the UK government to start producing fertiliser again and Co2. Then conveniently paid shareholders a huge dividend.
did what any other company would have done to increase profits
 

Hampton

Member
BASIS
Location
Shropshire
But it isn’t just fert price that has gone up is it, everything has gone up.
Oh except the BPS.
Ag is cyclical at some point it is almost certain that we will have a pinch point of high input prices going into grow a crop with low sales price. And it could be at a time when we have very little of the comfort blanket of BPS left to fall back on.
The BPS falling is irrelevant as the majority of the farmers on here keep telling us they don’t need it!
🤣
 

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands

Look at all this, all based on those old Adas experiments.
For those of you who are NIAB TAG members, have a look at their AN vs urea multi year trials ;)

CF neglected to mention anything about nitrate leaching or the fact that they are one of the world‘s biggest producers of urea and anhydrous ammonia…!
 

Planet Bee

Member
Trade
For those of you who are NIAB TAG members, have a look at their AN vs urea multi year trials ;)

CF neglected to mention anything about nitrate leaching or the fact that they are one of the world‘s biggest producers of urea and anhydrous ammonia…!
Why let the facts spoil a good story? 😂


Until now, the focus has been on air quality. Hence the easy target of untreated urea from the local AN producer. Never mind that AN production yields many tonnes of wasted CO2; so much that the domestic UK producer has developed tech to capture it under the North Sea. When there’s a focus on soil and water quality, nitrates will come under increased scrutiny.
Banning either urea or AN is a disaster for our industry.
 

ajd132

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Suffolk
Why let the facts spoil a good story? 😂


Until now, the focus has been on air quality. Hence the easy target of untreated urea from the local AN producer. Never mind that AN production yields many tonnes of wasted CO2; so much that the domestic UK producer has developed tech to capture it under the North Sea. When there’s a focus on soil and water quality, nitrates will come under increased scrutiny.
Banning either urea or AN is a disaster for our industry.
Agree. The thing that irks me is these so called “industry leaders” and “industry bodies” seem to far more in favour towards an the urea.
 

czechmate

Member
Mixed Farmer
It has to come down , not worth bothering at these prices


That’s a sliding scale of dose. If you have crops in the ground and no N bought, then it has to be worth applying 40kg and definitely not 240 kg. The clever bit it the line🤔.
I am in the first situation and if I received a quote today for £600 (say €700), then yes I would buy for 50 kg N for wheat and barley.
 

Planet Bee

Member
Trade
Agree. The thing that irks me is these so called “industry leaders” and “industry bodies” seem to far more in favour towards an the urea.
That’s what you end up with in a monopolist system. One big dog calling the shots and manipulating the market for their advantage. The irony that the EU UAN anti dumping duty wasn’t kept says it all.
 

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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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