What are your thoughts on the fertiliser price s for 2022

That was a different product akaik

Totally agree... wait till next year and see the response to fertilizer where little or none was applied this year.

I remember years ago spreading small bags of fertilizer. I didn't have enough for one field so as I was going through a mean phase I said that's it leave it. The field was grand for that season but double the amount could not get it going the following year. I learnt not to be mean with fertilizer after that.

It would be well into March here most years before we'd grt any fertiliser out. Could never understand lads spreading in January with the likelihood of snow and heavy rain

Been feeding humate powder to the cows. Supposed to improve dung nutrients and feed efficiency, reduce methane emissions, ammonia, adds the humic element. All nature works off humus for nutrients.

I'm the first dairy farmer in this country to feed humic powder to cows as a general trial from this company.

I may be the first overall here to feed humic powder to dairy cows?

Can it withstand cubing?

How much would it cost?

I've been spraying it on, but can't say anything about results really. Was spraying on with the urea, but the dry weather with little wet intervals , and yryi g to het away for holidays, has us back to comventional..

A 5 litre can, if what appears like just mud...cost €80😢

I'd say it probably would withstand cubing.

But then you'd have to be very precise in your settings on your feeder and not overfeed any cows that you thought needed an extra pull. It's just shy of 80 grams/d they're getting.

It is expensive though. It's the type of thing if the government are serious about reducing fert use and improving carbon stocks it should be subsidised.

Benefits so far to me it does look like it's reducing SCC.

But fert wise the dungs are consistent like above and you will not get any get any better manure/fertiliser than above. The carbon and humic acid has mixed in cow and no faffing mixing into slurry after.

For the life of me I can't share pdf's. I'll try another way to you Alps.

It's going to take you three years to get your head around the concept and principles of carbon, nitrogen and throw in now humus and soil life, what harms, what doesn't, what that all means.

It'll take you that long to work out what spraying you need or don't, suppliers of equipment, any soil solutions or homemade techniques.

I'm saying that as that's how long it took me. The soil needs to adjust too. And you'll need to know if it needs adjustment or not by testing.

Pretty much the suppliers of these are going to make a killing. But you'll save on granular fert and improve carbon storage, drought resistance.

Send me on an email address by pm or some other way and I'll send on what I have on the feed supplement.

This stuff

The thing about the humic is that what most crowds are selling is 90% water, rip off. You should buy the pure concentrated power direct from manfacturer.

There are enough nutrients in the soil to support crops for a lifetime, they are just locked up. It is just a matter of getting the soil biology right with the right microbes to release these nutrients.

What happens when the nutrients are eventually all released, how are they replaced? Organic manure?

But shure the soil is made from rock day one by microbes its just to keep it going.

Where from pls

Local merchant increasing price of 18.6.12 by 50/ tonne yday

That's fair enough once the price agreed and payment terms are adhered to on their part, they'll probably have a force majure and fertiliser bought at agreed terms will be a few 100 dearer by the time its landed in yard