What are your thoughts on the fertiliser price s for 2022

Picked up a half ton of 10/10/20 in a merchant with river in the name. €570/ton today.

Was €760/ton a month ago

Are ye spreading away for 2nd cut?

Spread yesterday 55-57 ( 3 big bags on 15 acres) units PU to the acre for second cut. There was rain forecast. We got 4-6 mm this morning early. Supposed to get another 6mm between later today and tomorrow night. More important it's cool and over cast this morning.

Spread a half ton of 18-6-12 on grazing ground. One paddock that was closed for silage goes back into the grazing rotation this time. It got about a bag and a half of 18's.

Projected to get about 30mm in total over the next week. Hoping for a bit more than that.

My silage ground is cut two weeks. There is a bare greening in the fields( basically the two leaves that come first. On silage ground all the N would be used up. Grass need N when the two leaves are up to power on. If the rain keeps coming in 3-5 mm showers then the fields will be well greened up in two weeks. The N is in the ground( no trace of it today) so the showers expected today and tomorrow will wash it further in. The showers projected for next week will mean I have a green cover in ten days time.

I cannot see 2-3 inches of rain in the next 2-3 weeks if it dose rain like that I am looking at second cut the start of the 4th week in July. Putting fertilizer out with too much rain forecast can cause fertilizer to wash away.

CAN available locally for €360 today.

9mm of rain here this morning

North tipp also quoted 490 for 18’6 12 with sulphur …can 350’….and it’ll drop again v soon

Have been lazy about shopping around for fertiliser of late but everyone talks about my co-op being expensive. Feck them anyway and the way they treat me. Looking forward to buying somewhere else Monday morning. Worst paying co-op on a regular basis also.

Stubble is usually flat ground. A lot of beef especially is variable ground. My system is all paddock based. 10 of the acres no problem no issue. The rest is sloped. Stubble ground as well break up well in dry weather and is more pouras. On sloped group the real problem is it all gets washed to lower valley's on the ground

I gave 567 for 18:6:12+s in dairygold yesterday

Hopefully you are right. I will give it a chance for a few days to recover before we put anything out. We have very light land so it will need a chance to recover before pushing it Abit.

18 6 12 over 100/tonne cheaper and more bang for you buck with it

25 .2.5. 10 + s ... 520

28. 2.5 . 5 + s .....510

Don't know what brand , waste of time asking my 2 main suppliers. Still quoting telephone numbers .

I bought 10-10-20 this morning at €530, it’s home, spread, grass seeds are in and it’s being rolled as I type!

CAN is €360

SulphaCan €370/€375.

All from John Grennans.

I was going to do a few days at pig slurry this week, not worth the hassle with fertiliser at them prices as some of it would be a 4 mile draw so about 45 mins per load. I’ll go light with my own slurry and SulphaCan on top.

Do merchants have to shift on old stock before they can sell newer cheaper stock, or how does it work?