Chemical Price Tracker
- Thread starter TFF
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Heat Seeker
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Ouch, that works out at an equivalent £487.50 for 5 litres, should be closer to £100 less than that!
Steevo
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- Location
- Gloucestershire
Outsiderofthree
Member
- Location
- Herefordshire
The following are the best prices selected from 4 agchem companies, quote only, no service
Chlormequat 70% 10lt £14.65
Moddus/scitec/alatrin 1lt £34
Opus/Cortez/rubric 5lt £95.5
Aviator xpro 5lt £159
Adexar 10lt £290
Comet 5lt £113
Bravo 500 10lt £36.75
Tracker 10lt £209
Filan 2.5kg £163
Maverik 1lt £31
Axial 5lt £368
Adigor 10lt £38.5
Starane 2 (hatchet extra, minstrel, tomahawk) 5lt £34
Starane XL 5lt £59
Chlormequat 70% 10lt £14.65
Moddus/scitec/alatrin 1lt £34
Opus/Cortez/rubric 5lt £95.5
Aviator xpro 5lt £159
Adexar 10lt £290
Comet 5lt £113
Bravo 500 10lt £36.75
Tracker 10lt £209
Filan 2.5kg £163
Maverik 1lt £31
Axial 5lt £368
Adigor 10lt £38.5
Starane 2 (hatchet extra, minstrel, tomahawk) 5lt £34
Starane XL 5lt £59
- Location
- Leicestershire
Pretty good prices. Adexar is cheaper than I have been quoted. Best of three quotes I recieved was £295 from a couple of suppliers. There doesn't seem to be a lot of difference between suppliers on the SDHI chemistry, it's only when you get to older chemistry/generics that price differences can be quite large. SDHI prices do seem to have dropped a little in the past month, (perhaps the industry is little worried that they won't be used as much as last year - less wheat in the ground, lots wouldn't justify the spend, yield potential for many is low, disease pressure much lower than last year.
- Location
- Lincs / Cambs border
Has anyone got any prices for Broadway sunrise ???
In a buying group with an independent agronomist and have no problem sending unused chemical back as long as I dont leave it too late.Only problem with buying product seperate from agronomy comes if you have unused product you need to send back...I know of a grower with over well £25K's worth of unused product in his chemical store bought in last Autumn which he couldn't use and was unable to send back as bought through a buying group...
warksfarmer
Member
Only problem with buying product seperate from agronomy comes if you have unused product you need to send back...I know of a grower with over well £25K's worth of unused product in his chemical store bought in last Autumn which he couldn't use and was unable to send back as bought through a buying group...
In this day and age of changing weather patterns if a chemical company dont take product back, then why would anybody even consider using them. Better to pay a bit more from somewhere else and knowing you can send it back and not get left with £25k of chems you dont need. If I cant send stuff back then I wont deal with them.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
f....king hell i thought the prices they were charging me were high.the prices i quoted on here were definitly correct.for some strange reason the first lot i bought was £57 for 15 lts then the next lot was £ 52
This thread is highlighting some interesting points with serviced agronomy. Relieved looking at some of the prices on here that I operate on supply only quotation basis.
There's some real value to a NIAB TAG membership for many serviced customers if they have an interest in their crop and want to get more involved.
There's some real value to a NIAB TAG membership for many serviced customers if they have an interest in their crop and want to get more involved.
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
i quite agree agrii are spot on when it comes to service and i'd be very reluctant to change but as ive already said on previous posts theyre to expensive iv said to my agro about it and he has taken it back to high management but to no use aparently the price is the price im gona get on to higher management my self next week when im back from holiday it would be good if a few other customers done the same they might listen then...
warksfarmer
Member
Guys, it's serviced agronomy so what do you expect. These guys are trained agronomists but at the end of the day they are salesmen probably on a commission.
If you knew what some of them earn you would fall over with shock.
If you knew what some of them earn you would fall over with shock.
- Location
- Leicestershire
Thought I'd try to add some values to the difference between serviced agronomy and supply only, which might help a few with their decision making.
Firstly, this is by no means scientific. I've taken a few of the products priced on here as serviced and compared them to the average quote price which I recieved to get a percentage difference figure. These are listed below. It is difficult to compare a lot of products as distributors often have their own 'mixes' so I have kept it to the ones easy to compare.
Even if you are using a large distributor serviced package they should be able to offer you a price for just advice on a per acre basis, therefore you can keep your current agronomist if you so wish. I don't know for sure, and they would have different ways of working it out, but I imagine this would be in the region of £5-6 per acre for combinable crops.
So the difference in price for the posted products (products may not be the same name but are the same rates of active)
Deere 66 - Savannah (tebuconazole 250g/l) 36.6%
TomO - Duplosan KV 23.7%
- Agrovista 3see (chlormequat) 16.9%
Jon 3085 - Tracker - 16.7%
- Kayak - 42%
Silverfox - Bio-power - 26.4%
Stroller - Oxytril - 6%
The average difference is 24% (I was expecting 15-20%). With more products to analyse I could get a more accurate figure, and the variation is quite high.
So take a 100acre farm only growing wheat. If you paid £5 per acre for agronomy that would be £500. If buying products on a quote basis they were spending £70 per acre on crop protection products that would be a further £7000, total cost £7500.
If you are on serviced agronomy with a 24% average mark up you would be spending £87 per acre on crop protection products - totaling £8700 for the farm. The difference therefore is £1200 between serviced agronomy and non-serviced agronomy.
My farm is only of a modest size, and therefore larger farms may get even better prices than I do and the difference could be even greater.
As I say, this is by no means scientific but should give food for thought.
Firstly, this is by no means scientific. I've taken a few of the products priced on here as serviced and compared them to the average quote price which I recieved to get a percentage difference figure. These are listed below. It is difficult to compare a lot of products as distributors often have their own 'mixes' so I have kept it to the ones easy to compare.
Even if you are using a large distributor serviced package they should be able to offer you a price for just advice on a per acre basis, therefore you can keep your current agronomist if you so wish. I don't know for sure, and they would have different ways of working it out, but I imagine this would be in the region of £5-6 per acre for combinable crops.
So the difference in price for the posted products (products may not be the same name but are the same rates of active)
Deere 66 - Savannah (tebuconazole 250g/l) 36.6%
TomO - Duplosan KV 23.7%
- Agrovista 3see (chlormequat) 16.9%
Jon 3085 - Tracker - 16.7%
- Kayak - 42%
Silverfox - Bio-power - 26.4%
Stroller - Oxytril - 6%
The average difference is 24% (I was expecting 15-20%). With more products to analyse I could get a more accurate figure, and the variation is quite high.
So take a 100acre farm only growing wheat. If you paid £5 per acre for agronomy that would be £500. If buying products on a quote basis they were spending £70 per acre on crop protection products that would be a further £7000, total cost £7500.
If you are on serviced agronomy with a 24% average mark up you would be spending £87 per acre on crop protection products - totaling £8700 for the farm. The difference therefore is £1200 between serviced agronomy and non-serviced agronomy.
My farm is only of a modest size, and therefore larger farms may get even better prices than I do and the difference could be even greater.
As I say, this is by no means scientific but should give food for thought.
£4.
And we can still send unused stuff back.
No cons to changing. Now the old way just seems like a big con.
warksfarmer
Member
My average net saving (taking into account Indy fees and chem saving) since swapping is £35/ac not leaving the account.
I honestly dread to think what serviced would of done last year with all the disease as they would have you in crops every week.
I honestly dread to think what serviced would of done last year with all the disease as they would have you in crops every week.
- Location
- Leicestershire
i agree that some independent agronomists will be charging £4 per acre but i bet the large distributors will be on much more. before i started doing my own agronomy several years ago i think we were paying around £4.40 per acre. i bet it's gone up since then!
- Location
- Derbyshire
Thats a big difference woodlander. Since posting my prices we have left agrovista and gone with a independent. Who should we be pricing up when ringing round for chemicals?