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Had anyone worked out a financial value to cattle FYM in terms of N, P and K? I realise there are other benefit to soil structure and health. Trying to work out the value as currently don’t use any.
Huge variation between FYM from our suckler cow shed and the potent stuff from the fattening shed . All good stuff though and our ground responds to application of either.Had anyone worked out a financial value to cattle FYM in terms of N, P and K? I realise there are other benefit to soil structure and health. Trying to work out the value as currently don’t use any.
Who sells it? Folk who dont have enough land? Just a fattening shed or what?Can buy good fym from cattle here for £5/t. Cheap at that in my opinion.
Its a large scale cattle finisher. Doesn't have enough land.Who sells it? Folk who dont have enough land? Just a fattening shed or what?
I have a cutting from a paper with the £ value of fym in my office
Its a large scale cattle finisher. Doesn't have enough land.
As for worth,i normally count a 25t/ha application as 10 units of N, we have to be careful not to put too much N on for low n malting barley. Its obviously got a lot more counting trace elements and p&k. I don't believe the rb209 figures for available p&k that my glgm program shows for tons of muck applied.
We tend to go for Sewrage cake or chicken muck before OSR or maize, and FYM or green waste with less available N before wheat or barley to prevent any laying of crop and make it easier for artificial N calculations.
Look in RB209. Find out prices for TSP, MOP and AN and do it like that?! Varies from week to week as the prices change. Then take into account spreading costs. Your value won't be the same as mine which isn't the same as my neighbours etc etcHad anyone worked out a financial value to cattle FYM in terms of N, P and K? I realise there are other benefit to soil structure and health. Trying to work out the value as currently don’t use any.
PricelessHad anyone worked out a financial value to cattle FYM in terms of N, P and K? I realise there are other benefit to soil structure and health. Trying to work out the value as currently don’t use any.
Priceless
Thanks. Do you take utilisation / availability into your equations on your spreadsheet? Still trying to work out how cost effective it is vs bagged.
We normally chop straw but neighbours would take straw for muck in return but we then have to spread it. Also means a lot of extra traffic on the field.
Not at any cost! Ask a grower who has imported blackgrass seed