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<blockquote data-quote="som farmer" data-source="post: 7934998" data-attributes="member: 86168"><p>years ago we had a lot ordered at £60ton, never turned up, and had to find from elsewhere at £115 ton, x 4 artics, that hurt. 75 caught us out, we were injecting urea for all season grass growth, the drought that year, made it a waste of time, and useless.</p><p></p><p> Generally, chemical fertiliser is not climate friendly, either in it's manufacture, or use, and has been a very easy, and convenient product to use, which produces good results. It has replaced good rotations though, pre fert, fertility was based on a 'proper' rotation, building up soil fertility, to take a cash crop, or two. That has changed to taking continuous cash crops, only possible by using fert, to replace rotation. And many farmers today, think that is the 'normal' practice. Farmers, on very light soils, are finding problems, with that, continuous cultivation, has depleted soil structure, which is needed, with fert, to produce a crop.</p><p></p><p>So, if fert use is restricted, either by price, or tax/law, to maintain crop yields, an alternative needs to be found, or you accept lower yields, that's pretty obvious, it's the how, that isn't. Pre extensive use of fert, a huge amount of research was going into building soil fertility, by rotation, different crops etc, all that research, went out the window, when fert came in, the easy, reliable alternative, that has remained the 'stalwart' behind decent yields, ever since, till now. So replacing/reducing fert use, you have to look back, to that early research, to find answers, luckily we have plenty of modern 'tools' to help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="som farmer, post: 7934998, member: 86168"] years ago we had a lot ordered at £60ton, never turned up, and had to find from elsewhere at £115 ton, x 4 artics, that hurt. 75 caught us out, we were injecting urea for all season grass growth, the drought that year, made it a waste of time, and useless. Generally, chemical fertiliser is not climate friendly, either in it's manufacture, or use, and has been a very easy, and convenient product to use, which produces good results. It has replaced good rotations though, pre fert, fertility was based on a 'proper' rotation, building up soil fertility, to take a cash crop, or two. That has changed to taking continuous cash crops, only possible by using fert, to replace rotation. And many farmers today, think that is the 'normal' practice. Farmers, on very light soils, are finding problems, with that, continuous cultivation, has depleted soil structure, which is needed, with fert, to produce a crop. So, if fert use is restricted, either by price, or tax/law, to maintain crop yields, an alternative needs to be found, or you accept lower yields, that's pretty obvious, it's the how, that isn't. Pre extensive use of fert, a huge amount of research was going into building soil fertility, by rotation, different crops etc, all that research, went out the window, when fert came in, the easy, reliable alternative, that has remained the 'stalwart' behind decent yields, ever since, till now. So replacing/reducing fert use, you have to look back, to that early research, to find answers, luckily we have plenty of modern 'tools' to help. [/QUOTE]
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