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So your telling the poster on one hand that €850-880 is plenty for them but your also telling him he’ll have to pay €1000-1100 to actually buy.

Not very helpful to him really. He wasn’t asking the value , just the price.

Sold some this week 360 kg for 880 euro.

All bred off our replacement dairy heifers.

€2.44/kg. That’s what they’re making around here too. It’s a nice touch for them in fairness.

By the way lads are thinking and begining to panic yearling's will be great value this spring

I cannot understand it. Most of you lads will be spreading 2-3 bags of 18-6-12 on grazing ground. A bag of Urea sit over three applications will get you out if trouble this year. Ya you will rob a bit of P&K but your system will survive

When people start running mad in one direction walk slowly in the opposite, they will catch up with you.

Remember as hard as you are suffering Feedlots will suffer 2-3 times the pain. Ireland is not a feedlot country.

Remember as well 12% of world calories come out of the Ukraine and Russia. 20% of the world's grain. As Marie Antoinette said ''let them eat cake''.

There is only one way food prices are going. We have only seen the tip of the iceberg yet.

Forward stores will be well priced from now on. It's the lighter cattle that will struggle.

I be trying to pick as many as I could carry if they soften further in April/ May. The animal that can be finished in 90-100 day will be cost of feeding+margin less than that. It all depends on whether there is sh!t stains still on lads jocks.

Confidence may return. It amazing the way lads that are lower stocked are panicked. The amount that a lot of there lads spread is minimal.

If you can get granlime for 140-160/ ton it's will give you 12 units of N on old pasture@50kgs/ acre and there will e P&K released as well

But.. but.. but.. but.. granlime is dear compared to groundline. If I had old pasture I be spreading a nag/ acre.

But.. but.. but if my aunt has b@lls she be my uncle

Bought cut award @1000 / ton

And gramlime @ 230/ton

Has gran lime any N, P or K in it ?

Bought none this year going off last year's prices. Would not have expected it to rise as far as some quoted here.

Paid 140/ton last year in a Dairygold store as part of a 10ish fertlizer purchase. Kerry group store quoted 160 for old stock this year.

Generally I buy two ton every second year for a a small bit I have around the house where the PH is low (6-7 acres).

I buy very little CAN even before this year it was over priced. My orders this year was 4.5T Urea (900 ish/ton), 1.5T protected Urea (960/ ton), 4T 18-6-12 750/ ton.

The PUrea replaced my 2T of CAN that I used to buy previously. I was pricing the gran line for another job that may or may not happen.

I have been buying Gran line for 20+ years now. 140 was the most I paid for it 5+ years ago it was 125/ ton.

Dairygold has always been the cheapest for it locally. If I remember I will ring Monday morning to see what price they are at present.

There is another granlime call G-lime that may be available around the place it's the same product.

There is another product called Growmax. It's used to be around 200/ ton but it has a TNV of 160 ( compared to 93 fir granular and 35 for ground limestone) it's a hydrated granular lime. However you need to wash everything down after and you need rain to wash it in with 24 hours.

Noticed at a few of the Suckler dispersal sales some of the prices for springers was ridiculous low. Some as low as €800. Weanlen sales aren't great either, anything that would need another winter is a poor seller. I also seen lovely Limousine and Charolais Weanlens 200 -250kg struggling to make €650.

I think the whole fertilizer situation has rattled a lot of lads who are now as good as throwing away certain stock.

You seem to have a bee in your bonnet about anything I post. If you bothered reading the post you might understand.

This is what I posted

''it's will give you 12 units of N on old pasture@50kgs/ acre and there will e P&K released as well''

Very few lads with old pasture are liming them. And it not 1% of N it's a units which is half a kg.

Using granlime this year on low PH old pastures is one of the most effective things you can do. You will get more bang for you book with your fertlizer but it will also realease about 12 units N as I posted. With the price of fertlizer if the granlime releases 12 units it's the equivalent of 400 euro with CAN @900/ ton and 385 with Urea@ 1100/ ton. That is before you factor in an any extra P&K it releases. Add in the extra value it will add to any other fertlizer you spread

The Granlime price I got was in January. I know it was old stock but that product should not increase in price by 40% even with the rise in Gas and fuel prices I would have taught.

So I am very sorry for giving a bit of helpful advice to lads that I did not technically fully clarify .

In future maybe I should you all my posts before posting them for to make sure they are technically right and ok by you

I said that about the grass growth already, how I thought it was flying already but got shot down by the Calendar farmers. A lot of beef farmers were never fertilizing that heavy and were no where near what the dairy industry uses. I have a feeling that on good fattening land they'll grow just as much grass this year as any. This panic selling is only going to make some lads a fortune at the expense of others

It would grow spruce trees

The full Montys for anyone that's interested. Would they be of interested to suckler guys?

Annual Clearance of Montbeliarde Milking Heifers Carnew Mart 14th April for sale in Wexford for €1 on DoneDeal