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<blockquote data-quote="digger64" data-source="post: 5974278" data-attributes="member: 16562"><p>OTE="Global ovine, post: 5974230, member: 493"]Maintenance fertiliser is essential and has the highest rate of return of all expenditure. Unfortunately it is often the first item of discretionary expenditure reduced or eliminated in periods of low prices, but it stuffs future years when better prices return. Farming is a long game that needs thought about the future as well as the current season.Hence it pays to know the fertility levels of macro elements (P, K, Mg and S) within a farm so any cut backs are only applied to those areas already topped up.</p><p>It is more difficult for organic farms as their fertiliser options are more limiting and costly to achieve the same level of nutrient availability.</p><p>A kilo of pasture DM in NZ on offer to sheep and cattle has about a third of its potential value in replacement fertiliser. Expensive stuff, but the cheapest feed of all.</p></blockquote><p></p><p>I have been reading your thoughts and experiences with great interest and they seem to make alot of sense . What perplexes me is how uk grassland farmers could use your good advice when the industry appears to wish to go down the route of accepting payments for not applying the very basic inputs of lime , maintaining drainage ,maintenance fert ,seeds etc etc and see this as a way forward , my experience is that you cant have it both ways and with these payments you are working with one arm tied behind your back before you have even started . I am not sure wether this is laziness , habit ,lack of imagination ,lack of confidence in their own product , safeguarding income or just acceptance of the status quo re the powers that be .</p><p>[/QUOTE]</p>
[QUOTE="digger64, post: 5974278, member: 16562"] OTE="Global ovine, post: 5974230, member: 493"]Maintenance fertiliser is essential and has the highest rate of return of all expenditure. Unfortunately it is often the first item of discretionary expenditure reduced or eliminated in periods of low prices, but it stuffs future years when better prices return. Farming is a long game that needs thought about the future as well as the current season.Hence it pays to know the fertility levels of macro elements (P, K, Mg and S) within a farm so any cut backs are only applied to those areas already topped up. It is more difficult for organic farms as their fertiliser options are more limiting and costly to achieve the same level of nutrient availability. A kilo of pasture DM in NZ on offer to sheep and cattle has about a third of its potential value in replacement fertiliser. Expensive stuff, but the cheapest feed of all.[/QUOTE] I have been reading your thoughts and experiences with great interest and they seem to make alot of sense . What perplexes me is how uk grassland farmers could use your good advice when the industry appears to wish to go down the route of accepting payments for not applying the very basic inputs of lime , maintaining drainage ,maintenance fert ,seeds etc etc and see this as a way forward , my experience is that you cant have it both ways and with these payments you are working with one arm tied behind your back before you have even started . I am not sure wether this is laziness , habit ,lack of imagination ,lack of confidence in their own product , safeguarding income or just acceptance of the status quo re the powers that be . [/QUOTE]
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