The giant fert price rise!!!!

[Hilly]

Every farm advertised in the fw this week advertised in acres

Why’s that funny ?

 

[Fendt65]

12 inches or 30cm she still not impressed

 

[sexy lexy]

Why’s that funny ?

This thread implies everybody talks in metric, nobody talks in imperial.

 

[Henarar]

Hi.
Us olduns use bags per acre,
Simples??

Yep
I put on between half and one and a half bags per acre in two applications on variable rate to mowing grass.
Is that old fashioned enough ?

 

[som farmer]

l went through school at the change over, imperial/metric, so did about 95% imperial, as teachers weren't quite sure !
so, bags/acre, litres/cow, converted mentally back to gals, never been to much of a problem, until recently, i'm stepping back, and sons completely metric !
But it doesn't take either, to know fert price is in super drive. Cheapest l can remember buying N, was £60/tonne, that would have been very early 70's, and little bags, but, if you add in inflation, how different would that be to, todays price. There used to be a formula, price N - extra produce, last time l saw/used it, fert was mid 100's, response was 7:1, which was very cost effective.

 

[Highland Mule]

Don’t care what units people use as long as they use proper ones and not ambiguous terms like “bags” or “units”. Come to think of it, we are an international website, so shouldn’t use gallons or pints either.

 

[Yale]

Beer by the 1/2 litre,doesn’t have that certain ring by the bar…….

 

[Highland Mule]

Beer by the 1/2 litre,doesn’t have that certain ring by the bar…….

At least you’d know how much you were getting - there are at least two different sizes of pint.

 

[DaveGrohl]

Don’t care what units people use as long as they use proper ones and not ambiguous terms like “bags” or “units”. Come to think of it, we are an international website, so shouldn’t use gallons or pints either.

I will continue to use what I like thanks. Bags and units used to be the norm so are viewed as fine by many. You do what you want.

 

[Highland Mule]

I will continue to use what I like thanks. Bags and units used to be the norm so are viewed as fine by many. You do what you want.

You only have yourself to blame when you end up with 600kg/ac then.

 

[DaveGrohl]

You only have yourself to blame when you end up with 600kg/ac then.

Why would I end up with that?

 

[neilo]

Why would I end up with that?

Maybe because it’s a job to get bags smaller than that now?

 

[DaveGrohl]

Maybe because it’s a job to get bags smaller than that now?

But it's me who's doing the calculation in the first place. I know what I mean by a bag. What the Hell has it to do with anyone else?

 

[Barleymow]

Surely you can’t be taken seriously as an arable farmer in this day & age if working in acres.



For the avoidance of doubt the above is a joke.

I have to figure out what I want on in cwt/acre then calculate to kg/ha for settings. Then realise I’ve got it wrong and just shrug and say it’s close enough

Nothing wrong kg/acre works for me

 

[DeeGee]

But it's me who's doing the calculation in the first place. I know what I mean by a bag. What the Hell has it to do with anyone else?

I do exactly the same as you with bags per acre, that’s the way I think and I certainly ain’t going to change it at 65.

Does bother me slightly that maybe one day I might say, without thinking, to a contractor’s young driver that I want two bags of Nitram per acre putting on that field.....

 

[DaveGrohl]

I do exactly the same as you with bags per acre, that’s the way I think and I certainly ain’t going to change it at 65.

Does bother me slightly that maybe one day I might say, without thinking, to a contractor’s young driver that I want two bags of Nitram per acre putting on that field.....

Oh I can see where the confusion might occur. I put my own fert on so no confusion. So far......

Good to see the bag police turned up in the end though. Shows they're always alert.

 

[oil barron]

Don’t care what units people use as long as they use proper ones and not ambiguous terms like “bags” or “units”. Come to think of it, we are an international website, so shouldn’t use gallons or pints either.

Nothing ambiguous about bags and units. That’s what they used to teach in the young farmers grassland competitions when I was doing them.
The American potato industry is still all measured in bags.

 

[Highland Mule]

Nothing ambiguous about bags and units.

Of course they are ambiguous - a bag is 25kg, 600kg or 1t.

 

[oil barron]

Of course they are ambiguous - a bag is 25kg, 600kg or 1t.

A bag is 1cwt

 

[PSQ]

Every farm advertised in the fw this week advertised in acres

Why’s that funny ?

Thats because farmers would soil their pants at the thought of paying £24,700 for a hectare of grade 3 arable.

But offer them an acre at £10,000 and they'll be all over it like a rash, just to make sure their neighbour doesn't buy it...