Fertiliser Price Tracker

[spin cycle]

Absolutely insane

there you go...your first 'likey' cos you're new...but whats 'insane'?

 

[allenxd]

Nothing, just testing out man.

 

[Still Farming]

Not looking good as reported on the news just now!

 

[PSQ]

I wonder how much panic buying would have happened if wheat was £120 ..............

The doomsday scenario is buying urea at £500, and selling the resulting wheat at £120.

= POP!

 

[An Gof]

I am not sure even Dyson has a large enough fert order for CF or Yara to be willing to deal with direct!

You don’t have to be that big to deal direct

 

[Renaultman]

I understand that the civil contingencies group met today to discuss continued availability of affordable Fert so govt is aware.

They are more worried about the CO2 government are petrified we run out of beer.

 

[glasshouse]

heard my old agronomist has lost 4000 ac crop walking to stewardship options .......bps loss driven IMO

Cue the famine

 

[glasshouse]

The doomsday scenario is buying urea at £500, and selling the resulting wheat at £120.

= POP!

That's what happened in 08-09

 

[Westin]

Let's calculate Ferts production cost!
One tonne of Urea cost 25 MMBTU of natural gas and 80% of Urea production cost is on the cost of natural gas is $5/MMBTU at Henry's hub...hence, $125/MMBTU cost of LNG, add another 20% for covering other cost...arrived at $150/tonne urea production cost...which is about 109 poundsterling/tonne...
Ferts company are making huge profit on top of Farmers' misery.

 

[Westin]

One tonne of Urea only need 21 MMBTU according by latest calculation

 

[90hp farming]

Meat isn’t going to run out…….just use your local butcher instead of pre packed supermarket shite!!!!

Just heard on radio 4, that 80% of pig meat goes thru just 10 abattoirs. This is now proving a dangerous situation...............

 

[Beef farmer]

Just heard on radio 4, that 80% of pig meat goes thru just 10 abattoirs. This is now proving a dangerous situation...............

I'm surprised its as many as 10

 

[som farmer]

with brexit, covid and now gas, all these impact to a large degree on the magical food supply chains, the just in time policy, is beginning to look decidedly uncertain. Will this give a boost to home produced food ?
it certainly should, and good news if it does, but that's a big if. With fert at a silly price, there will be less used, which means less home product available, less means higher prices, usually. Transport costs are going to rise, with both wages, and fuel costs, so imported product will cost more. The news this morning, is really giving it a lot of coverage, even got a pig farmer on live ! So, in a funny sort of way, this might just be a positive thing for UK ag product.

 

[David.]

Less convenient than lowering batches of pigs into a gas chamber I expect, but surely it is possible to revert to electrical stunning with some changes to the line?

 

[lloyd]

Looks like my fertiliser delivery isn't happening
any time soon.

 

[Will Blackburn]

The doomsday scenario is buying urea at £500, and selling the resulting wheat at £120.

= POP!

Don't worry we're told there's a 5 to 1 return on N use, they could put another £100 on it yet.

 

[David.]

This might be the year that we remember you can grow 3 tons/ac with 100kg N, well timed, and need less fungicides to keep the excess biomass clean.
Not all of us can average 4.5t/ac.

 

[glasshouse]

Be quite funny if N became unavailable.
Then we will see who can farm.

 

[lloyd]

Be quite funny if N became unavailable.
Then we will see who can farm.

You've got a strange sense of humour.

 

[teslacoils]

Be quite funny if N became unavailable.
Then we will see who can farm.

Not sure. I'd suspect that it won't be the huge mega-acres CFA farms that haven't got any fert.