Lime cost?

[Cab-over Pete]

You’ve lost me, go on……

 

[Happy]

Huh

Calcium lime delivered, spread, including diesel, £42/tonne

Three contractors all near enough the same price in this area

Reading the cost elsewhere....... I'm away to cry

If it makes you feel better I was much the same a month ago at £41 with contractor using my diesel.

Consoled myself thinking how much tax those 12 lorry loads might save before my year end

 

[Cowcorn]

And could you all please put your location and distance from the quarry, and whether it is premium ground lime or a pile of coarse screened waste.

There is a huge variation in lime costs. No offence intended towards @glasshouse but you can’t say £30 is a bargain unless you know the full details.

The stuff I get off my local " cab over johnny " is good stuff .
Ag lime has to meet min criteria by law over here or it cant be sold as lime .
The price he qouted was 27 a ton for 70 ton but discount for payment behind the spreader or rather after the tea reduced the price by 2 euro ton ...
Every little helps !!Any harm to ask you what your price is roughly pete ??
Given the rise in fuel prices the further you are from a quarry the more its going to cost like everything else atm .

 

[glasshouse]

Whats the neutralising vslue of chicken muck from slatted layer sheds?

 

[DrDunc]

Whats the neutralising vslue of chicken muck from slatted layer sheds?

Used to work on 3 tonne muck was equivalent to a tonne of lime

 

[ollie989898]

And could you all please put your location and distance from the quarry, and whether it is premium ground lime or a pile of coarse screened waste.

There is a huge variation in lime costs. No offence intended towards @glasshouse but you can’t say £30 is a bargain unless you know the full details.

So, Pete, I had to ask. If the £30/tonne deliver and spread was for granulated lime, would you consider it a bargain or not?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

Oh yes, that would be some bargain. It’s akin to gold dust really.

@Cowcorn it does depend on many things as you say, but in the south of the area I work for a premium Cotswold calcium lime I will be £27/t and in the north I will be near to £35/t. I can source lime north of me as well which could add up depending on haul rates.

I have found a couple of quarries that produce a very good screened lime and that would reduce prices by £2-5/t depending on the haul.

Magnesium lime is available reasonably locally and would be along similar lines price wise.

Lime delivered and spread to my customers has risen in price maybe 10-12% (I’ve not actually worked it out yet) on the year. Is there another input that has kept the lid on the price so well in the last year? I seriously doubt it. Many inputs have doubled or even more. Lime hasn’t doubled in price over the last 20 years.

 

[Optimus]

Paid about £30 delivered think it's come from dufftown.

 

[Frodo]

Used to work on 3 tonne muck was equivalent to a tonne of lime

That sounds awful high. I wish A third of a layers ration was lime @ £30/tonne rather than cereal.

 

[Frodo]

Whats the neutralising vslue of chicken muck from slatted layer sheds?

I had some analysed a long time ago which was 1.46%

 

[Bman]

Farming on the chalks I have no idea about lime what rate dose it go on at ?

 

[Cab-over Pete]

It depends what it needs. You have to soil sample first.

 

[bobajob]

Farming on the chalks I have no idea about lime what rate dose it go on at ?

What Pete says test it, for a rough back of the fag packet rate 2t /acre was often spread.

 

[ollie989898]

Farming on the chalks I have no idea about lime what rate dose it go on at ?

Anywhere between 0.5 and 2t/acre.

 

[glasshouse]

I had some analysed a long time ago which was 1.46%

I had some analysed a long time ago which was 1.46%

How does that compare to 1 ton of lime?

 

[DrDunc]

That sounds awful high. I wish A third of a layers ration was lime @ £30/tonne rather than cereal.

Not about what they're fed, it's about how alkaline their shyte is: Ammonia makes up a big percentage of chicken manure, and it's alkaline as hell

There's plenty of studies done comparing soil "improvers", just do a Google search on chicken manure liming effect if you're still not convinced

Generally chicken layer muck is between 25 and 35% as effective as lime; depending on the source and how wet, between 3 and 4 tonne chicken shyte equates to one tonne of lime

 

[An Gof]

Cost only part of the equation, two critical parameters to consider; neutralising value and fineness on grinding