Fertiliser Price Tracker

[The Agrarian]

I umbillicaled slurry onto wheat ten years ago. Problems are heavy patches at the turns, green backward heads under the spreader wheel tracks at harvest, and sometimes just too sticky in winter and gathering around those huge wheels, meaning a big cleanup job when he hit the road. But you guys have better weather and might get away ok.

 

[Old apprentice]

Six weeks still too tight

When silage is in a pit could be much lonGermany than 6 weeks still would not risk it , nabours is concerned of dead crows and pigones etc

 

[neilo]

I guess it won’t scorch at those rates ?

Ask @scholland

 

[Hilly]

According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.

Interesting good for 1790 I’d say

 

[Old apprentice]

Just got a prodiction there won't be any reduction in prices till next summer pending price of gass after winter .

 

[scholland]

Ask @scholland

Not had any bother with scorch here no. Lots to learn on foliar fert still but I hope to figure it out very quickly in 2022

 

[cornishfarmer]

According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.

Of the top of my head that works out to be the equivalent to £100/acre rent for £130 of grain. That doesn’t seem that good

 

[Fendt516profi]

 

[glasshouse]

According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.

Uk wheat production will fall to 6 m tons

 

[county down]

Uk wheat production will fall to 6 m tons

everybody would starve

 

[B'o'B]

According to the 'Statistical Account for Scotland' in 1790, the parish averaged "5 bolls per acre of wheat", which roughly translated is around 740 to 800kg an acre, less 90kg an acre for the next years seed.

This was on a 10 year rotation of 5 years grass followed by wheat, peas, barley fallow and oats. "Turnips do not do well in the parish as the soil can not be made fine enough". Rent was 23 shillings.

I think organic farms are doing significantly better than that nowadays and I think on shorter rotations.

 

[glasshouse]

I think organic farms are doing significantly better than that nowadays and I think on shorter rotations.

Yes, but not to feed 65m people.
Lots of organic farms rely on imported muck And feed.
Reslistically, wheat grown once in six yrs
@2.5 t/ac
Do the maths!!

 

[PSQ]

Of the top of my head that works out to be the equivalent to £100/acre rent for £130 of grain. That doesn’t seem that good

That’s only part of the story. If you divide the parish totals by acreage (this farm at that time was about 350 or 360 acres) it would have had 70 head of cattle and about 150 sheep on the half of the farm in grass.
The record states that it was the highest rent in the parish, but a productive farm.

 

[MrNoo]

everybody would starve

No, dont be silly, we'll just import it!!! I actually hope the world harvest is very poor next year, then it may bring it home to these deluded MP's that "just in time" just simply doesnt work, and home grown production is king and should be looked after at all costs. Maybe I am the deluded one.......!!

 

[The Agrarian]

everybody would starve

I've recently been diagnosed as gluten intolerant.

 

[PSQ]

everybody would starve

At least the peasants wouldn’t be revolting, as we’d be the only ones with potatoes, and the sacred knowledge of how to peel them

 

[glasshouse]

Nitrogen is a drug
Prepare to get the shakes!!

 

[Nearly]

I've recently been diagnosed as gluten intolerant.

I think I'm Greta intolerant.

 

[Jackov Altraids]

Yes, but not to feed 65m people.
Lots of organic farms rely on imported muck And feed.
Reslistically, wheat grown once in six yrs
@2.5 t/ac
Do the maths!!

Could everyone stop trying to feed the world.
Spend less, grow less, earn more and let the twunts who bash agriculture worry about the lack of food.

 

[PSQ]

Nitrogen is a drug
Prepare to get the shakes!!

One day soon the media will realise we are farmers, not alchemists.
We can’t manufacture enough food for 6 billion people from good intentions and thin air, we need artificial nitrogen, and that drug you refer to is the one thing keeping the worlds population well fed and not at each other’s throats.

The day after the global panic sets in, all the ‘experts’ currently slagging off farming (Guardian / Monbiot, BBC, vegans, urban ‘environmentalists’) will be screaming at farmers for not producing enough food, and letting millions of acres of grass go to waste….