Fertiliser stocks

What fertiliser stocks have you bought this year

  • I have bought my normal amount

    Votes: 70 32.6%
  • I have bought 3/4 of my yearly requirement and don’t intend to buy any more

    Votes: 47 21.9%
  • I have bought this years and next years requirement

    Votes: 10 4.7%
  • I have bought 1/2 my requirement and don’t intend to buy anymore

    Votes: 20 9.3%
  • I have bought a 1/4 of my requirement and don’t intend to buy any more

    Votes: 5 2.3%
  • I have no intention of buying any for this year

    Votes: 27 12.6%
  • I have bought 1/2 of my requirement and will buy some more when I need it

    Votes: 33 15.3%
  • I will continue to buy at what ever the cost is.

    Votes: 6 2.8%
  • I am struggling to get any delivered

    Votes: 3 1.4%

  • Total voters
    215

dinderleat

Member
Location
Wells
why ? sounds a bit like a supply chain data collection exercise to me ?
Nope Nothing like that just interested what is actually happening on farm, as you hear lots of reports that people haven’t bought anything. But thinking about it it’s probably better left in the dairy section.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Do you normally charge for that type of information from the forum……

no we don't

we allow lots of surveys, all for free, mostly from researchers or students on here asking for help, we don't allow any commercial surveys

I'm not saying this is commercial but it's not information that I would be prepared to give away personally
 

dinderleat

Member
Location
Wells
no we don't

we allow lots of surveys, all for free, mostly from researchers or students on here asking for help, we don't allow any commercial surveys

I'm not saying this is commercial but it's not information that I would be prepared to give away personally
I’ve changed the votes to not show so it’s Anonymous now but it’s your choice of coarse
 
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Jdunn55

Member
Personally bought 3/4 of what I would have done if the price was £300/t

But am growing maize and have bought hay to make up the difference plus carrying extra silage from last year anyway so will be fine

I'm not buying for next year but am putting in a lot of clover throughout this year in case the price stays high

I do wonder wether we will end up with a government hand out of some sort
 

vantage

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Pembs
I buy as I use it, had some in stock for spring application . Ordered and had urea delivered which is on yard. I just don’t have space for all the fertiliser I’d use in a season, also don’t think you can get aftercut grades out of season.
Your survey doesn’t cover me , or I suspect many farmers.
 
I've bought everything I would use in a normal year. I think availability will probably be even more of an issue than price for 2023 so I'm growing more maize and fodder beet instead of grass silage and kale because of the lower N requirements so I'll hopefully be carrying at least an artic load into next year.
 

frederick

Member
Location
south west
I've bought everything I would use in a normal year. I think availability will probably be even more of an issue than price for 2023 so I'm growing more maize and fodder beet instead of grass silage and kale because of the lower N requirements so I'll hopefully be carrying at least an artic load into next year.
Both of those will save N but will drive up your protein requirement.
 

bigw

Member
Location
Scotland
We bought about 3/4 of our normal requirements as we have a good carry over of silage stocks, not sure how excited i will be at buying £1000+ fertiliser another year
 
The maize will be fed on the shoulders of the season when there is plenty of protein in grass and the fodder beet will be a wintering crop instead of kale so hopefully it won't drive protein requirements too much. I've already bought all my cake for the next 12 months.
 

Jdunn55

Member
The maize will be fed on the shoulders of the season when there is plenty of protein in grass and the fodder beet will be a wintering crop instead of kale so hopefully it won't drive protein requirements too much. I've already bought all my cake for the next 12 months.
Will you graze the fodder beet? If you do I'm fairly sure that the protein would be higher than lifted beet because I think the leaves are higher in protein
 

sidjon

Member
Location
EXMOOR
Grazing platform hasn't had fert for years, youngstock/silage farm normally use 27ton of 28% N, haven't purchased anything as currently have 2/5 of next winters silage still in the clamp.
 

SFI - What % were you taking out of production?

  • 0 %

    Votes: 79 42.9%
  • Up to 25%

    Votes: 63 34.2%
  • 25-50%

    Votes: 30 16.3%
  • 50-75%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 75-100%

    Votes: 3 1.6%
  • 100% I’ve had enough of farming!

    Votes: 6 3.3%

Red Tractor drops launch of green farming scheme amid anger from farmers

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As reported in Independent


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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