YesDo you keep stock?
YesDo you keep stock?
A few years ago, black and white bull calves weren’t worth very much at all, hardly get a bid at the auction for them, people were just ended life with them. We decided to carry on and sell the stores as we had done. 18 months later , things had turned and we were getting decent prices for them. It may look like things don’t add up now with current prices.....things may look a very different picture in 12 months time
Very true,I usually find that no two years work the same.A few years ago, black and white bull calves weren’t worth very much at all, hardly get a bid at the auction for them, people were just ended life with them. We decided to carry on and sell the stores as we had done. 18 months later , things had turned and we were getting decent prices for them. It may look like things don’t add up now with current prices.....things may look a very different picture in 12 months time
Come and buy my lovely haylage and hay. It’ll be cheaper than buying fertiliser .Some very quick number crunching in my head tells me that if I use the same fertiliser next year as this year and I buy at current or higher prices, the money spent on fert could instead be used to rent grass keep which in the £150/200 acre ball park would enable me to somewhere near double my grassland acreage, I wonder which would grow the most grass.
Like the fat lamb trade, with brexit and all a couple of years back, looked like the year not to risk it. Turned out well. Yes margins will most likely be less this next year, nice feeling to have if you’ve something to sell when prices make a climb which I believe will happen in the livestock sector. We’ll crack on regardless, we’ve come through when milk was 16pence.....lost 6 weeks milk cheque when DFoB went under.....just think of the extra tax saving with this expensive fert!Very true,I usually find that no two years work the same.
Depends what the price is November 22 for wheat. A lot of farmers still remember the spring 2009 N prices and the November 2009 wheat prices.
If you can keep it it may well be worth more next year.Come and buy my lovely haylage and hay. It’ll be cheaper than buying fertiliser .
I personally think it's a better proposition to buy feed than fert, at least most of the collateral damage happens somewhere elseBut if grassland farmers use lower rates, then they may need to buy more grain to supplement = higher grain prices
theres a good point, is it cheaper to buy fert for grass or substitute with a bit of barley?
What even is a unit? So you get a 600kg bag of fert, convert it into ‘units’ and then convert your Agronomist’s Rec sheet from Hectares into acres and then you’re away?! What’s the spraying equivalent? Gallons per furlong? that’s an interesting question…what is the Roman Catholic version of litres/hectare?? Surely it’s not gallons/acre? And all recs get converted?Don`t know if you peoples realise,,,,,,,,,,, we have left the EU and their foreign measurements, Please speak in good old English Units per acre, Then I might understand your rates.
Oh FFS, not this again..........What even is a unit? So you get a 600kg bag of fert, convert it into ‘units’ and then convert your Agronomist’s Rec sheet from Hectares into acres and then you’re away?! What’s the spraying equivalent? Gallons per furlong? that’s an interesting question…what is the Roman Catholic version of litres/hectare?? Surely it’s not gallons/acre? And all recs get converted?
Were laureate been getting it away at low N, cut the rate back a bit if its after grass down to 90 units, we had some go flat in the past last couple years though its all had growth reg and done just under 3t/acre avAre you malting or feed or bit of both? Think our contractor still has nightmares from 2 yrs ago when the crop received similar N to yours. Nitrogen level of 2, 2.85-3t/ac. You couldn’t have got it flatter with a heavy grass roller.
Ask me again in a few yrs but last yr 3.25t/ac at 100kg N, this yr approx 2.5t/ac, more N this yr just meant higher grain N for us in high stock grazing situation. Laureate can handle the higher N with us compared to sassy, will be all laureate next yr.
Do you spread the dung on your grassland? Wat time of year do you spread it? Does it put cattle off eating it?I buy in my winter fodder from a grass farmer. He's got the kit and experience to produce good clean bales.Cost is much reduced by being his on call maintenance man. Means I can concentrate on growing grazing grass fertilised by dung on my small farm. Don't need to buy fertiliser.
YesDepends what the price is November 22 for wheat. A lot of farmers still remember the spring 2009 N prices and the November 2009 wheat prices.
I’ll bet you a cup like that the spot price in November 22 won’t be as high as the futures price for Nov 22 is today.£40 higher than 4-5 months ago, £190 +!!
New crop wheat has never been this high at this time of year before
I’ll bet you a cup like that the spot price in November 22 won’t be as high as the futures price for Nov 22 is today.
The sage of Litchfield says we should be buyingYou can always forward sell a portion.............