Seed and Fertiliser bag size poll

[Kiwi Pete]

If I sat my nitrogen in a shed in this climate, I think it would set solid in no time.

So do most people use a contractor to spread? What happens if you only want to spread a small acreage, say following a grazing heard?

Generally it's only dairies here that use N, generally those who spread themself will have a silo (big plastic tank, on a stand) if they use urea.
Mostly down this way it's all coated urea, SustaiN or N-Protect depending on your co-op; these aren't too bad for stickin' and easy to break up with the loader.
Some local to town guys will just come in and load from our store as needed.

I haven't seen plain urea for a while unless in a mix, it's not much cheaper here than coated, barsteward stuff really!

for everything else, it's usually me in the Merc to the rescue, soon covers the ground.

 

[Al R]

When working in the midlands everything was bulk or tonne bags.
When I moved back to west wales i enquired about tonne bags of fertiliser, they said it would cost more due to haulage, they could fit 26 tonne bags on a lorry or 28.6t if in 600kg bags basically. 600kg’s would come from Bristol and 1000kg would come from immingham so almost treble the distance.

 

[Kildare]

Bulk fertilizer is very popular here. Most spread by contractor with bredal spreaders.most merchants have bays for bulk .

 

[Strungup52]

Here in the Prairies all dry fertiliser is bulk. We get mutiples of 42 ton loads, augered into 120ish ton bins typically in January, then out into tender trucks to fill the seeder in May.
Yes we have had issues with sulphur blends solidifying and will now not accept delivery if a warmer, high humidity day.
Same story for guys using liquid. Many farmers cannot store liquid so rely on timely delivery - we played that game to our cost and went back to dry. We were unable to insure the contents of liquid bins that we could store because of a couple of malicious valve ‘failures’ locally also.
Probably close to 50% of N in this area goes down as Anhydrous, either fall applied or as a band at seeding.
Cereal and pulse seed - all bulk. Canola seed, 25 kg bags plus a variety of sizes of larger totes and bags depending on supplier, with very limited price/kg difference that I have found.
Sometimes it is very handy to have a stock of ton bags to empty the drill if the calculator went wrong when filling the seeder for the last field of that variety!!

 

[Farmer Roy]

Here in the Prairies all dry fertiliser is bulk. We get mutiples of 42 ton loads, augered into 120ish ton bins typically in January, then out into tender trucks to fill the seeder in May.
Yes we have had issues with sulphur blends solidifying and will now not accept delivery if a warmer, high humidity day.
Same story for guys using liquid. Many farmers cannot store liquid so rely on timely delivery - we played that game to our cost and went back to dry. We were unable to insure the contents of liquid bins that we could store because of a couple of malicious valve ‘failures’ locally also.
Probably close to 50% of N in this area goes down as Anhydrous, either fall applied or as a band at seeding.
Cereal and pulse seed - all bulk. Canola seed, 25 kg bags plus a variety of sizes of larger totes and bags depending on supplier, with very limited price/kg difference that I have found.
Sometimes it is very handy to have a stock of ton bags to empty the drill if the calculator went wrong when filling the seeder for the last field of that variety!!

we can hire plastic storage tanks for liquid fert if required, from the supplier / manufacturer