Fertilizer a little lumpy!!

Jerry

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Mixed Farmer
Location
Devon
Thats horrendous how can you expect an even flow rate from stuff like that. The cost of the fertiliser is bad enough but the impact on potential crop loss can be huge.

My complaint is already at the desk of a chap at origin......phone conversations have been had.

I wanted prilled for spreading accuracy after all.....🙄🙄
 

Werzle

Member
Location
Midlands
That's my point, I had a bit of compensation a few years back, I just want fert that will flow. One lorry driver told me he went to the docks to collect a load, apparently the stuff had been there unloaded and left out side for a week in the rain. I know it's packed in plastic but can't do it any good.
Buy British! I tried origin once, dust and lumps . Never again
 

Top Tip.

Member
Location
highland
The problem must be country wide as a friend of mine had pictures up on Fb complaining about the lumps in Origin,he’s a contractor so spreading a lot of different fert.
 
Origin as well, the pink stuff ment to be dap......complaint in, but radio silence...
 

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Steevo

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Location
Gloucestershire
Origin urea here for first time in a long time. Delivered 6-8wks ago, but bags have settled out (probably from stacking 6 high) so need a bounce on the floor first. No lumps as such though.

No worse than Bell’s Diamond brand which does likewise.

Would be nice to have fert that you just cut the bottom and it flows straight away.
 

steveR

Member
Mixed Farmer
20 to 30 years ago we never had this problem, every year now I seem to get several ton that lumps together in the bag, and I do drop the bags on their side to break the lumps which does help but some are to bad and this happens.View attachment 950401View attachment 950402

Had several bags of Origins "finest" N+S. I had a large lump of sleeper in teh yard to drop the bags on to break up the hard stuff in the bottom each time, then a spade on teh tractor to break lumps up further. Like ropey Eastern European stuff from the 90s!
 

Fendt516profi

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
Yorkshire
Origin urea here for first time in a long time. Delivered 6-8wks ago, but bags have settled out (probably from stacking 6 high) so need a bounce on the floor first. No lumps as such though.

No worse than Bell’s Diamond brand which does likewise.

Would be nice to have fert that you just cut the bottom and it flows straight away.
Just spread 5.4 ton of bells diamond been in shed since last year not one lump
 

Farmer_Joe

Member
Livestock Farmer
Location
The North
Origin prilled N.

Either lumpy or slush puppy.

only been on farm for 6 weeks.
thats complete shite, its not even lumps its mush, o_O

i usually get lithan imported straight 'n' and its always been perfect, not that i use alot.

the granular lime i got was origin thats been ok so far not spread it all,

got some 0/24/24 and thes nice stuff forget what it says on the bag though :unsure:
 

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