Fertiliser Price Tracker

Phil P

Member
Arable Farmer
Location
North West
Got a message this morning offering mop at £405 immediate delivery. Apparently there could be a £20 increase next week. Didn’t bite as don’t need anything before feb and no storage.
 

MattR

Member
£225 for 0.12.18 fibrophos delivered and spread. That seems to be pretty similar to the TSP/MOP prices above, unit for unit.
That's for Cornwall, I guess some of you can get it a fair bit cheaper in the right location?
 

DeeGee

Member
Location
North East Wales
Ferts rising in price, corn price falling.

Same old same old Groundhog Day.

And still, we keep on sowing corn and playing into the hands of the buyers.

This will be the last year I grow spring barley.
Okay, so I will miss the lucrative straw income, but there are far easier ways of losing money than watching the ever changing weather forecasts, and the ever falling feed barley price.

I’ve grown barley here for 45 years now; sometimes it’s done okay, but far too often I’ve been so disappointed with the returns.

So I ain’t got too many years left now, and I’m certainly not going to spend them fretting about corn prices and ever changing weather forecasts!

I’m out!
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Ferts rising in price, corn price falling.

Same old same old Groundhog Day.

And still, we keep on sowing corn and playing into the hands of the buyers.

This will be the last year I grow spring barley.
Okay, so I will miss the lucrative straw income, but there are far easier ways of losing money than watching the ever changing weather forecasts, and the ever falling feed barley price.

I’ve grown barley here for 45 years now; sometimes it’s done okay, but far too often I’ve been so disappointed with the returns.

So I ain’t got too many years left now, and I’m certainly not going to spend them fretting about corn prices and ever changing weather forecasts!

I’m out!

Could I interest you in some sheep to fret over in your dotage instead?
 

DeeGee

Member
Location
North East Wales
Could I interest you in some sheep to fret over in your dotage instead?
Now ewe have to be joking!

No animals here now apart from DIY livery GeeGees, one dog and two farm cats who are well fed and also catch mice and small rats.

Streamlining this small farm business now to what pays best and to what I enjoy doing. Hopefully another few years left in me, so I am determined to do what I like doing and cut out as much worry and poor performing things as possible.

Hence the small spring barley acreage now following store cattle (four years ago) and a small 35 cow dairy herd (25 years ago) out of the exit door……….to never return into my life thank God!

Neilo, the sheep all went down the road from here in 1966 when I was just ten years old!

Don’t tell me they have turned up in your place now?
 

neilo

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Montgomeryshire
Now ewe have to be joking!

No animals here now apart from DIY livery GeeGees, one dog and two farm cats who are well fed and also catch mice and small rats.

Streamlining this small farm business now to what pays best and to what I enjoy doing. Hopefully another few years left in me, so I am determined to do what I like doing and cut out as much worry and poor performing things as possible.

Hence the small spring barley acreage now following store cattle (four years ago) and a small 35 cow dairy herd (25 years ago) out of the exit door……….to never return into my life thank God!

Neilo, the sheep all went down the road from here in 1966 when I was just ten years old!

Don’t tell me they have turned up in your place now?

Ah, I now see where you’re aiming to go with your business. Could I maybe interest you in some invisible magic beans, in exchange for your Spring Barley crop?
I can guarantee they will give you an income not dissimilar to your barley crop, for absolutely no work whatsoever. Just plant them in a wee hole, water them well, and they won’t even need combining.

Keep it to yourself though, or they’ll all be after some.🤫
 

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