I use N37 & work in litres. Specific gravity is 1.29 so 1 litre weighs 1.29 kg. 100 litres/ha roughly = 37 kg/ha of N
Calculating fertiliser cost per unit
- Thread starter Loftyrules
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I use N37 & work in litres. Specific gravity is 1.29 so 1 litre weighs 1.29 kg. 100 litres/ha roughly = 37 kg/ha of N
- Location
- Huntingdon
Think I must have still been drunk! Don't know where I got that calculation from! £748 a tonne is what we've been offered for urea so yer £1.62 tonneUrea at £446/t
sounds incredibly cheap vs the current market price.
Pretty much the same think I qas using figures from a good few months back!
- Location
- Sedgefield
Nitram is 34.5% N which means there is 34.5% N per tonne = 345kgN per tonne
in old money that’s 34.5 units per hundredweight (50kg)
Or 17.25kg/N per hundredwieght
so
At £290/tonne the N costs 84.05p per N
Or
42.02p per unit
so 4 cwt/acre = 4 x 34.5 = 138 units x 42.025p = just shy of £58/acre
1 tonne = 20 cwt so £290. / 20 = £14.50/cwt x 4 = £58.
so using the new season price of £635 (ish)
Those 4 cwt/acre now = £127/acre
Niteforce
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- Location
- East Yorks
warksfarmer
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As good as it gets at thr minute alteast we have some costs to go off I suppose.. as long as coral prices stay up it will be okay.
- Location
- Darlington
Just over £700 M3 for 32N + 9S03 last week. Isn't there about 2.35 MT I'm a cubic metre?
- Location
- Huntingdon
Won’t be as dense as that, I guess about 1.29-1.35t/m3
Enry
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- Location
- Shropshire
I make that 42p a unit….. 34.5 units in 50Kg bag
20 bags per ton
so 690 units per ton
£290/690 = £0.42
- Location
- Darlington
That should have been 1.3 fat fingeritis
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