Fertiliser Price Tracker

Brisel

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Midlands
I agree new season is a bit of a farce, as markets generally don't just stop and then restart. However, it is just a price. Either you like it and buy or you don't and leave it. Everyone has a choice and it's no different when it comes to buying an input or selling what you produce. I suppose at least the UK still has fertiliser production and AN is still permitted. Ireland and others do not have this as an option, therefore you could argue more limited choice.

Global urea is what keeps AN prices down. I don't think the Irish have a major disadvantage beyond one less alternative in the market.

I agree its like a CARTEL but unless the likes of ebay/amazon are gonna start supplying us with these kind of Inputs were rather stuck

More of an oligopoly than a cartel. A few players operating collectively but still competing for market share. OPEC+ might be described as a cartel of oil producers - there are fewer alternatives but OPEC's actions made North Sea oil, tar sands and biofuels viable to be developed. We also had fairly stable oil prices for 15 years after the oil price shocks of the 1970s until Saddam Hussein sent his troops into Kuwait in 1990. If the Arabs hadn't got greedy and George Bush Senior & Junior's foreign policy was less warlike, the USA wouldn't now be the world's biggest oil producer as well as it's biggest consumer.

A perfect cartel requires a high cost of entry into production, usually through patents or massive extraction costs, full collusion, secretive market information/illiquidity and no ready alternatives. Cartels are mostly self defeating. Take trans-Atlantic air travel. That was the exclusive club of nationalised carriers like Pan Am and British Airways until the likes of Freddie Laker (unsuccessful) and Virgin Atlantic (successful) broke it up by going outside the agreements then grassing up the other cartel members to the Competition authorities in return for prosecution immunity.
 

Happy

Member
Location
Scotland
All these prices being quoted the past couple of days are for straight N. Nitram, Pulan, Lithan, Extran etc.

Surprised so many are buying wagon loads of Straight N as I thought most people used combined N+S products for most applications these days.

In what situation are you all using it in and anyone had any prices for N+S products yet?
 

PSQ

Member
Arable Farmer
My feeling is they’ve come out with prices a bit sooner than normal, probably because most farmers are tight atm


I wonder of they've opened up sooner because they're sitting on a lot of this summers stock that either wasn't ordered or was cancelled late. I do a regular run past CF's Billingham factory, and in spring you can see dozens of 300t stacks laid out in the yards awaiting collection, and by early summer the yards are emptying.
I'll be driving down the A19 tomorrow for the first time since lockdown, I might take a detour...
 
Location
East Mids
All these prices being quoted the past couple of days are for straight N. Nitram, Pulan, Lithan, Extran etc.

Surprised so many are buying wagon loads of Straight N as I thought most people used combined N+S products for most applications these days.

In what situation are you all using it in and anyone had any prices for N+S products yet?
Every time we have test our grass it is not deficient in S so we don't apply it and have not seen any deficiency either. Admittedly all of our acreage gets a good dose of either muck or slurry. We were quoted same price /t for 27% N + S as for ammonium nitrate.
 

Steevo

Member
Location
Gloucestershire
Every time we have test our grass it is not deficient in S so we don't apply it and have not seen any deficiency either. Admittedly all of our acreage gets a good dose of either muck or slurry. We were quoted same price /t for 27% N + S as for ammonium nitrate.

Interesting you say this.

I'm planning on doing some testing next year to see how much difference sulphur makes to the uptake of N in our crops. Currently apply 100kg SO3 to each field but it's not my favourite job when it's already a busy time of year.
 

An Gof

Member
Location
Cornwall
All these prices being quoted the past couple of days are for straight N. Nitram, Pulan, Lithan, Extran etc.

Surprised so many are buying wagon loads of Straight N as I thought most people used combined N+S products for most applications these days.

In what situation are you all using it in and anyone had any prices for N+S products yet?

Have bought both AN and N+S in the form of Yara Amidas
 

pappuller

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
M6 Hard shoulder
All these prices being quoted the past couple of days are for straight N. Nitram, Pulan, Lithan, Extran etc.

Surprised so many are buying wagon loads of Straight N as I thought most people used combined N+S products for most applications these days.

In what situation are you all using it in and anyone had any prices for N+S products yet?
just a simple dairy boy here, away land short of potash so bought pulan and straight potash. have some 27 0 0 13s in the shed but can see it been saved til next yr and just dress the grass with pulan later on
 

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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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