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Supposedly takes 60 quid in transport to get it up and over on the ferry.
Fracking will start up again and with all the hippies superglued to the motorways nobody will stop it this time!So why dont the uk set up a fert plant using cheap north sea gas.
Theres a big flare off going all the time in fife
That was the spring, different nowSold straw here in the spring at £150/t ex farm
They are paying farmers to chop it now aernt they?Supposedly takes 60 quid in transport to get it up and over on the ferry.
But there’s another spring comingThat was the spring, different now
Is straw short down your way?But there’s another spring coming
Time will tell as to how long the winter is.Is straw short down your way?
Plenty here
They are paying farmers to chop it now aernt they?
EireWho are 'they'?
This year was the first year of it and it went well. It put a floor under prices. I’d expect it to be oversubscribed next year. The P&K value of the straw has certainly risen .Eire
hard to beat a bit of funFracking will start up again and with all the hippies superglued to the motorways nobody will stop it this time!
Eire
You really must get out moreMy merchant stopped importing straw from there six or seven years ago, so I don't hear much of what they are doing.
Anyone else ever used any of the microbe fixing products, I used Twin N in the past and you really couldn’t tell the difference on grass, I must add it needed moisture and warmth and of course didn’t have the kick in affect of AN and also i think for winter cereals needed to go on early.
It’s like everything really, the weather will be the king of the day.I’ve used Twin N in the past. It was for a customer who had been advised to sign up for environmental schemes that limited the amount of N he could apply, as he was trying to get planning permission for a house his stocking numbers were limited so he needed more production. We applied it exactly as advised, no chlorine in the water, big nozzles at low pressure etc. He wasn’t convinced that it was successful, certainly his yields weren’t as good as he’d hoped for. However, as a contractor, I had cut lots of other grass for other customers and generally the yield for everyone else was low that year. Personally, having compared it to other people’s yields, I thought it had made a difference.
The thing is that you can make the CO2 without having to produce fertiliser. You could make ammonia and then sell that to the highest bidder right now.if we all reduce our fertiliser use, owing to price, and they still have to produce CO2, does that mean fert price will drop, if the unthinkable happens, and they produce to much. Just a question, once up, it wont come down a lot, in price. One doesn't really think of fert production, keeping other crucial businesses/hosp going.