is it worth it
- Thread starter Billboy1
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- Lincolnshire
Ooof. I'd have to say no. But depends what the alternative is. Have you seen the price of bean / pea seed?
If you can get 2.75t of spring barley as opposed to 3.5t of wheat, I'd say there are some other options.
If you can get 2.75t of spring barley as opposed to 3.5t of wheat, I'd say there are some other options.
I was going to have one field of second wheat but have changed my mind, as inputs vs yield on our shallow soils just don’t stack up. I have a lot of oats gong in this year. If you are on strong land and can get 3.5t plus on second wheats might be ok though.
Urea at £400 a tonne = £20 per 50kilo so even if you put on 200 kilo per acre that's only £ 80 an acre currently thats about 450 kilos of wheat , urea at £250 a tonne and wheat at 130 needs 400 kilos of wheat if my maths is correct, I remember growing wheat at lower prices than that with urea above 200
- Location
- Lincolnshire
Just a coat and shoes? Sending her out on the game to make up for the high fert price seems a bit extreme.
Thing is, once you look at wheat as a whole - seed, sprays etc - there are easier ways to get 3t of grain. Oats, barley, spring cereals etc. You really don't want to be doing a big herbicide stack and four fungicides on a crop you'll only put 120kgN
- Location
- East yorks
2019 harvest we had some second wheats at 4.5t/a, 2020 it was 4.5t/ha if someone could tell us the weather for the next 6months it would be so much easier
Depends on the wheat price , like fert , wheat has many lucrative byproducts
shakerator
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- Location
- LINCS
Yes
Doom and gloom
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Depends how much wheat will be,do you think £ 200 is the finish?
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
how much per acre are people spending on fert to grow low malting sb?
- Location
- the brecks norfolk
That depends on when the fert was bought. It's a bit like asking how long is a piece of string!!!!
Someone growing a crop using left over get from last year is going to a lot less that someone who bought fert in the last week for 425 quid a ton.
Bossfarmer
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- Location
- between Perth and Inverness
I meant at todays fert prices
- Location
- East Yorkshire
If your wheat yielding less than 4t maybe join stewardship.
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Bean pea price?
- Location
- South Shropshire
There is in theory no problem if costs double overnight, as long as receipts double overnight too.
Its the uncertainty of not knowing how inflation will play out that causes the problem.
Its the uncertainty of not knowing how inflation will play out that causes the problem.
- Location
- Darlington
My 2nd wheats have matched my first wheats again, this year.2019 harvest we had some second wheats at 4.5t/a, 2020 it was 4.5t/ha if someone could tell us the weather for the next 6months it would be so much easier
glasshouse
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- Location
- lothians
Anyone who remembers 08/09 will know the crop went in on sky high inputs and was sold rock bottom