Will high fertiliser prices change you’re cropping plan.
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Jim t
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- Location
- Shropshire
Yes cutting down my milling wheat area
- Location
- Shropshire
Might lower winter barley for spring barley, although I found spring wheat yielded half a tonne per acre more than SB so might do that.
going to carry on with similar winter wheat acreage. £170-180 off combine next year is still an excellent return.
going to carry on with similar winter wheat acreage. £170-180 off combine next year is still an excellent return.
- Location
- Shropshire
Feed wheat was miles ahead of zyatt in terms of yield this year, so will probably drop that
- Location
- Lincolnshire
No changes. Hasn't cut optimum n rates that much. It's just a cashflow pain.
- Location
- Lincolnshire.
It won't alter my cropping for the coming year since the fertiliser has been purchased. However going forward there is a big question mark over second wheat here. Moving to all first wheat with OSR,beans and fallow/stewardship would improve purchased N utilisation. As others suggest milling wheat is off the menu ATM.
lloyd
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- Location
- Herefordshire
Wont you get flat crops if you over do the muck in the spring?
Obviously will need to be careful , but with autumn applications being banned I think more spring cropping is inevitable .
The problem will be soil damage from heavy spreaders on moist soils, wouldnt dream of being able to do that here
I was looking to replace 2nd wheats with spring oats, but a shortage of contracts combined with Quaker demanding Leaf Marque membership* and falling oat contract prices has knocked that on the head. They obviously aren't making enough money with a 3000% markup that they feel they have to screw the ex farm oat price further into the ground.
* - Quaker desperately trying to 'greenwash' the fact that it's parent company PepsiCo creates 137,000 tonnes of plastic pollution per year – equivalent to covering 22 football pitches a day (equivalent to 5.5 billion plastic bottles a year), 2nd only to CocaCola at 200,000 tonnes of plastic waste
www.theguardian.com
* - Quaker desperately trying to 'greenwash' the fact that it's parent company PepsiCo creates 137,000 tonnes of plastic pollution per year – equivalent to covering 22 football pitches a day (equivalent to 5.5 billion plastic bottles a year), 2nd only to CocaCola at 200,000 tonnes of plastic waste
Report reveals ‘massive plastic pollution footprint’ of drinks firms
Report says plastic from Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestlé and Unilever products could cover 83 football pitches every day
www.theguardian.com
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- Location
- Black Isle
Am I correct in thinking there are areas of the world, Aus/Canada and more so into the former Soviet countries that only bother planting wheat when the price is high? Will the high fertiliser price prevent that happening meaning the high price wave might take a year or 2 longer before it crashes 
Chae1
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- Location
- Aberdeenshire
Can't see it happening here!Am I correct in thinking there are areas of the world, Aus/Canada and more so into the former Soviet countries that only bother planting wheat when the price is high? Will the high fertiliser price prevent that happening meaning the high price wave might take a year or 2 longer before it crashes
Prices are often completely different at harvest to drilling time.
We’ve often spread muck in March on bone hard ground destined for maize . Don’t think you can pin any month down as being dry or wet
- Location
- Darlington
I top dressed some ww with turkey muck this year, only 1t/acre as an experiment, I will probably try it again. Digestate may be available, as an option too.
Daniel
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- Location
- Mildenhall, Suffolk
I’ve got quotes for a new fert spreader, our 2003 Amazone is pretty crude, on/off and that’s it, at these prices the savings from weigh cells and section control over 5-600ac will mean the spreader pays for itself well before its worn out?
gone up the hill
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- Location
- Devon
What market does the Rye go into?
- Location
- Bedfordshire
Could it be the year to grow milling wheat if you just happened to get lucky when you ordered your N? ( a long time ago!) I will be 100% milling again.
Our clay is like plastic then and then like rock, never grew spring crops until we went to dd, if the autumn muck ban actually becomes a reality I will plaster it on our westerwold break and then put in oats or spring wheat rather than an autumn crop,