What are your thoughts on the fertiliser price s for 2022

I doubt he’s old enough to get into a pub in the first place judging by the calibre of his “insults”.

I think most people move away from the “your mother” jokes after they hit puberty.

The decals don't look right on that, Dawg.

Exhaust not genuine either.

Are you sure it's a genuine low hours example?

India had a tender out for 1. 25 MN tonne of Urea, got offered 500k from producers.

Traders said it was a foolish way of buying it, made this inevitable but it will drive up the price globally now.

In the positive side, the country where 1 in 5 litres of milk is produced is well short of Fertilizer, that's going to feed in to global milk demand and milk prices.

The downside is a country of 1.4bn people is significantly short of Fertilizer.

There are signs that normality might be coming back to the Fertilizer prices next Summer though.

Lol. After 5yrs of teagasc saying urea is bad, don't use urea.

Christ, the horrors of a coffee bean shortage, I didn't bat an eyelid about toilet paper or any other shortages post covid, but I'm absolutely stocking up on bags and bags of coffee, just incase lol!

Isn't it great though that the guys doing all the work in the coffee plantations might get paid a bit more. I laugh at the guys rising the prices in the coffee chains due to having to pay more for the beans. No mention of all the add-ons in between. There is huge mark up on coffee. Nearly the price of a pint and no excise to be paid. The percentage of the price that the grower gets is pitiful but sure that's no surprise to anyone here I'm sure. They have fair trade just to make themselves feel a bit better.

Guess characters like you and I better find more chores out doors

It interesting that many are looking at looking for solutions without looking at the obivious one. Between lads recommending adding water to slurry ( added cost of spreading will negate a lot of savings). I saw a recommendation in the FI by an advisor ( Goggins I think) that maize is the answer for getting a bulk crop without considering it may not be feasible in places and as well you scale ( adding extra cost)or having never planted adds to risk of crop issues.

The obivious answer is often not considered. Reducing output. I saw where a 20-25% reduction in fertlizer will only reduce grass output by 10-12%. As well the rush to take light covers out for bales during May especially maybe should be tempered next year and use miminal extra fertlizer to get maybe double these crop sides in 10-14 days.

Should lengthening the rotation be considered as well by 1-2 days at times will this cause such an issue with production that it will reduce output or output value. Would the cost saved cancel the output value lost.

Will we see all slurry been done with dribble bar / trailing shoe

Agree. I’ve a local guy putting out 8 bays in half day including agitation for €500. I get slurry to fields I’d never get to. Still have my own tank for 2 silage fields across the road and handy for moving tanks of water etc

putting out thick slurry is a waste of time. Cakes on the ground and grass takes way longer to recover unless you get lucky with just the right amount of rain.

Has anyone tried for a quote on any of the fertilizers, just out of Interest to see where the prices are at now

If those prices materialise, there will be a lot of hungry cattle in the country for the next two years

Was talking to my local coop rep last Friday ,quizzed him on fertiliser ….they have stock but no prices ,hope to have them early December ….last asked early October and was told he’d have prices late October 🤔🤔🤔

having a solid plan in place and securing a certain supply of fertiliser for first 4/5 months going to be crucial …looking like v little protected urea going to be spread next year too

Maybe, maybe not. We will see the start of product price increases fairly fast IMO. Futures will drive commodity prices crazy. If future prices go up for grains( easily stored) these will feed into meat and milk prices very fast as a lot of the world is dependent on intensively fed chicken and pork as well as feedlot beef.

I forgot about one other phenomenon which will effect supply and price. Hoarding. Expect consumer's to buy extra and freeze or store product.