fertilizer pricing

[vvalk]

cotton. From what I read from most guys on this site, including you, is that prices are still going higher. Or at least back to higher where we were. If this is the case then why would fert price therefore demand go down. If having this crop paid for and all my fertilizer and glysophate paid for 09, without taking a bushel off yet, is stepping on a rake then so be it.

[SASKFARMER3]

OK Vwalk the line what happens oh lets say it freezes next Tuesday on your farm. If your in Alberta you have insurance if your in rest of Sask good luck young man may god have Mersey on your soul.

[parsley]

One way to give the farmer an option on the mount of money spent on fertilizer/yr is by seeding perennial wheat.

Insist on deductions being spent on the development of perennial wheats. Perennial barleys.


Good for the farmer.

Parsley

[boarderbloke]

pars, how will this save on fertilizer costs, will the wheat be some kind of legume hybrid that will fix it's own nitrogen?

[parsley]

Most producers fertilize their brome and alfalfa crop every year.

But they can skip if need be, and they will harvest a crop even when they don't fertilize, because the crop is a perennial. (You also save the cost of seed.) Granted, the yield is down, but so is the operating loan.

IF the price of fertilizer goes through the roof just as your cash flow is in the basement, you can negotiate with the dealer,and if the negotiation falls through, you can walk out the door. You can get by.

It gives the farmer one more negotiating option, boarderbloke, when you say: "Lower the price or I walk,".

With perennial planting, you actually have a back-up to your offer,(along with the seed cost savings). If there are lots of farmers who are able to walk, there is a risk of too much inventory for the dealer.

If you are seeding annually, you really have little option except to fertilize, or cut back on fertilizer. Few walk.

Parsley