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<blockquote data-quote="Two Tone" data-source="post: 9199945" data-attributes="member: 44728"><p>Was going to continue my look around the farm to see what would travel, but the Fog that is supposed to have disappeared by now, has got thicker.</p><p></p><p>I’ve been using Urea since the early 1980’s and wonder who gives Facts advisers their information.</p><p>We don’t make Urea fertiliser in the UK and so UK manufactures of AN have done their best to try to rubbish it.</p><p>A perfect example of this is the new rule regarding inhibitors as from 1st April.</p><p></p><p>I’d agree losses are minimal in cool conditions, even if the Urea is washed in soon after application.</p><p>Urea does NOT need rain soon after application to prevent volatilisation. It will quite happily just sit there until some moisture, which could be a heavy dew will start getting it to go through the process of getting it to work.</p><p>Volatilisation of Urea can only happen on bear soils above 26 degrees centigrade, which rarely happens in the UK.</p><p>It cannot happen where soils are growing an active crop, because even though the air temperatures could be higher than 26 degrees in months as from June, the shading effect of a crop and the microcosm at the surface level is highly unlikely to exceed 26 degrees centigrade.</p><p></p><p>So Why TF do we need protected Urea at all in the U.K. and especially in April or May?</p><p></p><p>Most countries throughout the World, especially in hotter climate Countries, have banned AN usage, because it is an explosive, when mixed with an accelerant, such as diesel or sugar and therefore has the potential to be used by terrorists.</p><p>So if they can use unprotected Urea, why can’t we?</p><p>The vast majority of Urea sold in this Country, is made in Egypt, a hot country!</p><p></p><p>Urea certainly lasts in the soils beyond the year it is applied. If an area such as a headland where the spreader is switched on/off is accidentally double dosed this year, that same area will clearly be seen the following year.</p><p>I especially noticed this effect on the headlands, when we switched from 12 metre tramlines to 24.</p><p>So if it was going to volatilise during above 26 degree temperature on bare soil in August, why would that double dose show up the following Spring?</p><p>Therefore, volatilisation of Urea in the UK is absolute Bollox!</p><p></p><p></p><p>Therefore, how have Facts advisors allowed the U.K. AN manufacturers to get ban on unprotected Urea to take place as from April?</p><p>Especially when the main one is CF Fertilisers UK, an American owned company that bought out ICI, is a major Worldwide manufacturer of Urea fertilisers, vastly exceeding any AN it produces.</p><p>On top of which the UK Government was advised by the Fertiliser manufacturers what the RB209 levels are set at.</p><p>If that isn’t nepotism, I don’t know what is.</p><p></p><p></p><p>That being so, I wouldn’t trust any Facts advisor to advise me on anything whatsoever!</p><p>Especially when that protectant, contains Arsenic!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Two Tone, post: 9199945, member: 44728"] Was going to continue my look around the farm to see what would travel, but the Fog that is supposed to have disappeared by now, has got thicker. I’ve been using Urea since the early 1980’s and wonder who gives Facts advisers their information. We don’t make Urea fertiliser in the UK and so UK manufactures of AN have done their best to try to rubbish it. A perfect example of this is the new rule regarding inhibitors as from 1st April. I’d agree losses are minimal in cool conditions, even if the Urea is washed in soon after application. Urea does NOT need rain soon after application to prevent volatilisation. It will quite happily just sit there until some moisture, which could be a heavy dew will start getting it to go through the process of getting it to work. Volatilisation of Urea can only happen on bear soils above 26 degrees centigrade, which rarely happens in the UK. It cannot happen where soils are growing an active crop, because even though the air temperatures could be higher than 26 degrees in months as from June, the shading effect of a crop and the microcosm at the surface level is highly unlikely to exceed 26 degrees centigrade. So Why TF do we need protected Urea at all in the U.K. and especially in April or May? Most countries throughout the World, especially in hotter climate Countries, have banned AN usage, because it is an explosive, when mixed with an accelerant, such as diesel or sugar and therefore has the potential to be used by terrorists. So if they can use unprotected Urea, why can’t we? The vast majority of Urea sold in this Country, is made in Egypt, a hot country! Urea certainly lasts in the soils beyond the year it is applied. If an area such as a headland where the spreader is switched on/off is accidentally double dosed this year, that same area will clearly be seen the following year. I especially noticed this effect on the headlands, when we switched from 12 metre tramlines to 24. So if it was going to volatilise during above 26 degree temperature on bare soil in August, why would that double dose show up the following Spring? Therefore, volatilisation of Urea in the UK is absolute Bollox! Therefore, how have Facts advisors allowed the U.K. AN manufacturers to get ban on unprotected Urea to take place as from April? Especially when the main one is CF Fertilisers UK, an American owned company that bought out ICI, is a major Worldwide manufacturer of Urea fertilisers, vastly exceeding any AN it produces. On top of which the UK Government was advised by the Fertiliser manufacturers what the RB209 levels are set at. If that isn’t nepotism, I don’t know what is. That being so, I wouldn’t trust any Facts advisor to advise me on anything whatsoever! Especially when that protectant, contains Arsenic! [/QUOTE]
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