Chemical Price Tracker

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
Will you do it for under £40 or even match their price ?

We don't sell anything, we don't price match, we just quote the best price we can do/find on any given day. We are simply told what vendors want to sell at. I'm sure if I rang round then I could get a price match. But you are missing the point, you shouldn't have to ring round in circles, you should just ask for a price just once like it seems you have an got a good one. The best price I have had for any quantity is £42. So thats what I would have quoted. The price may have dropped recently. However, it stands your price isn't red hot. It is, however, a good price from your supplier you won't name.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Totally agree with you, but we are currently the only people who offer a click and pay option at the moment on a commercial selection. We already have a lot more available than last year and will have even more next year.

Straight 200g fluroxypyr was £52 for 5l when I last priced it or Starane Hi load was £143 for 10L.

Seems quite a difference between the two when multiplied up.

Could buy the “standard” mix used at extra rate for £124.80 equivalent.
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Totally agree with you, but we are currently the only people who offer a click and pay option at the moment on a commercial selection. We already have a lot more available than last year and will have even more next year.

Straight 200g fluroxypyr was £52 for 5l when I last priced it or Starane Hi load was £143 for 10L.
You dont list either of those
 

Chris F

Staff Member
Media
Location
Hammerwich
You dont list either of those

You supplier won't even let you name him on the internet - we are open about as many prices as we can be. The reason your guy won't let you put a price up is that he is ripping off a load of other farmers and if you publish a price, they will all then know that. Price secrecy acheives nothing for farmers as a group - all it does is benefit those selling them. So why not just tell us who gave us the price if you are all in favour of everything being listed.
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
You supplier won't even let you name him on the internet - we are open about as many prices as we can be. The reason your guy won't let you put a price up is that he is ripping off a load of other farmers and if you publish a price, they will all then know that. Price secrecy acheives nothing for farmers as a group - all it does is benefit those selling them. So why not just tell us who gave us the price if you are all in favour of everything being listed.
Good job I got you then so I can check they are not ripping me off. Long live price checker
 
Standard 0.5 lt/ha = £5.20 for 100 g active
HL 0.3 lt/ha = £4.29 for 100 g active

The HL is better value per ha

Starane Hi-load is a far superior product to generic fluroxypyrs.... far different additive package and it can make some mixes hotter than a June bride in a feather bed. I gave some maize a good hiding with some a few years back by using it in a mixture.

I believe the maximum dose for grassland of hi load is actually 0.6 if you check the fine print.
 

Derrick Hughes

Member
Location
Ceredigion
Totally agree with you, but we are currently the only people who offer a click and pay option at the moment on a commercial selection. We already have a lot more available than last year and will have even more next year.

Straight 200g fluroxypyr was £52 for 5l when I last priced it or Starane Hi load was £143 for 10L.
Starane hi load £139/ 10L
This morning.
 

Agrobi

Member
Only natural to be defensive when your profession is under threat long term I guess. Most tractor drivers are not keen on the idea of driverless machines either !

What do you think a algorithms / remote sensors / satellite / high res images or small robot image won’t be able to do that only a human can ?

Sone of this tech will see and predict things that no human no matter how skilled will be able to


Genuinely interested as I actually think it will be a shame see skilled people disappear from fields, I feel it’s inevitable however ?

The beginning is “decision support”. (We already have a lot of that) When it learns enough about those decisions the next step becomes decision replacing embrace

I’m afraid it’s inevitable hence my comment re retraining !

I think they tell you a story, but they can’t make you a decision. If you have the confidence to read and understand, interpret the information provided and make a decision based on that coupled with your experience, that’s great. I’m envious. My point being that I think you will still need people out there to run those decisions past and bounce ideas off. People that are still in the field on a daily basis, and not just your farm, lots of farms growing lots of different things and varieties in different areas. Because as we all know different things happen in different areas. A good example would be the yellow rust this year, some varieties that obviously haven’t read their AHDB ratings have yellow rust. And yet the same variety 10miles down the road with no fungicide either is clean. As I say, if you can use the technology to it’s best and confidentially make the subsequent decisions, brilliant. But a hell of a lot of people out there aren’t like you.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

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  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

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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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