The only thing gordon brown did for any good was not to join the euro.
Fertiliser Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
- Start date
- Location
- Darlington
I have to agree with every word of this. Selling the UK gold reserves for a pittance and building hospitals etc on PFI are only 2 examples but we are straying off topic
- Location
- South Lincolnshire
So...back on topic...urea curently available at £740 (?), Nitram mentioned above at £770, new season AN ???, so is there any reason not to go 100% urea for 2022/23 season?
Bramble
Member
Not that I can see IMHO. Urea @£1.60/unit of N, any Nitram/imported N/blend etc I found is well over £2/unit, I reckon new season stuff will be around the £2 mark. Weakening £ and early BPS payment is only another upward pressure
Wheat for this autumn at over £300 should pay for it, less sure about current milk/beef/sheep prices covering it though.
Bought 3 loads of urea last week which is about 70% of my N requirement, after I convinced myself of the above
- Location
- Limousin, France
Best price around me for urea €780 (£669.50).
Oh I can give you lots more better examples than those two, but that’s me told
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
None whatsoever.
I have only used AN once in the last 30 years. It just so happened that the price/KgN was cheaper than Urea that year.
I used the same KgsN/ha as I would have done with Urea and my yields went down. I’d actually got some urea left over from the year before. Enough to do 2 fields and they yielded what they should have done.
The talk of AN being better than Urea is just a big con, because we don’t make Urea in the UK.
And you only need 2 dressings of it instead of 3.
It even works as a late dressing for Milling wheat to boost protein, providing you get it on early enough.
- Location
- Northern Ireland
There is an view out there that repeated urea makes grassland sour and unpalatable. Does anyone have a view?
davidroberts30
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- Location
- pembrokeshire
thats what lime is for......
- Location
- Northumberland
My understanding is that fully utilised urea has no acidification effect, whereas AN, and AS in particular, lower the pH. I would like to understand about unattractive grass. Lashed salt on the usual patches a couple of years ago, but couldn't see much benefit. Suspect unavoidable in a high N - highly stocked system.
I know which on eats the fert spreader out quickest
- Location
- Berkshire
No, it’s pretty much what I’m doing other than the carry over of AN I had from this year
This is one of the best aspects of using solid v liquid fert imo, over the past few years I’ve used many different N and S products, Urea, AN, AS,Urea + S Polysulphate, kieserite etc to get the best value unit costs and have bought many products early and put in the shed, it’s much harder to take advantage and with a limited choice of products with liquid
- Location
- Moreton-in-Marsh, Glos
I’d say absolute Bollox!
AN is more likely to sour grassland than Urea.
What do cows and sheep pee onto grassland?
- Location
- Darlington
Very true, I would hate to go back to solid but am very aware of these things. Ideally muck, Fibrophos or similar, gypsum etc used as much as possible with liquid to top if the N requirements.
WRXppp
Member
- Location
- North Yorks
Well taken the plunge and booked urea, £744/tonne, October delivery for 15 tonne part load.
Chae1
Member
- Location
- Aberdeenshire
This was my first year on liquid, but I think I'm going to buy urea for first application on winter crops.
Urea will allow me to apply it on a frost which I can't do with liquid. I made a mess of field and crops with first application of liquid this year.
Where tractor was losing grip and reduced forward speed the pressure wasn't high enough to maintain a pattern on nozzles.
Resulted in tartan fields. Probably didn't help sprayer on a fastcrap.
- Location
- Darlington
My sprayer's mounted on a fairly light TM155 and on pretty wide tyres. The beauty of liquid is part of it is pretty instantaneous so I can go a little later. I can see your point though, I've been on liquid for 5 years now and can still find it stressful.
Nearly
Member
- Location
- North of York
Still £20k for an artic load of U.
I can't lock into prices for harvest 23 so I'll wait a bit longer.
I can't lock into prices for harvest 23 so I'll wait a bit longer.
That's probably because the storage sheds are fullThe driver told me 3 or 4 weeks ago that the load I had delivered was bagged the day before straight out of the factory. This was Billingham I think.
That was in response to a direct question where I specifically asked him how big a heap did he see stockpiled.
2.64 million metric tonnes have been offered into the latest RCF tender. Prices should be released later today...