Fertilizer pricing

[TOM4CWB]

Wd9: If you were producting fertilizer instead of wheat would you like it if someone like the CWB would single handedly decide how much you were getting paid for production.

We will pay what the traffic will bear for open market fertilizer and the same open market proceedure should discover what we get for wheat.

Lets stop whinning about input prices and create a fair market for our product and let the supply and demand rule. If you can't stand the heat get a job and let some one else worry about it.

Farming is a business not welfare for a family way of life.

Oh by the way Urea is $350/MT

[poorboy]

Shop around on the phosphate price. With the dollar climbing the phos is dropping. The problem is that most dealers filled early and are stuck peddling phos at the high price.
urea here is 350 and 11-52-0 is 329

[crusher]

I'd drive a few miles for $329 phospate, where would that be?

[crusher]

Ron: Now you have hurt my feelings. you have taken the 1st prize for being rude and with the use of some very explicit language have taken the Agri-ville prize for literacy.

I did enter a price for urea for you along with someother information but aparently you can't walk and chew gum at the same time Oh! I'm sorry I was being rude again. But it might be humor then again would depend on how far your eyes are apart to beable to tell the differents.

Fertilizer could be your only topic.

Ron I love you and keep those cards and letters coming.

[poorboy]

East of Calgary, at one of the new independants.

[crusher]

Thanks for the reply poorboy.

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[cowman]

Just a short note on fertilizer pricing.
About 5 years ago there was a new outfit going around offering a great price on fertilizer. I took the quote into my local dealer and showed him. He opened up his books and showed me he couldn't even buy it for that price! His price allowed him a 12% markup over what he bought it for. Which is fair I believe?
Now here was a dealer who sponsored the ball and hockey teams, put on a customer appreciation day and was very involved in the community. Very honest and straightforward. Been there forever and wasn't going to bail out. So I went with him.
Guess what happened? The fly by nighter went broke in less than a year, ripped off a lot of farmers and spent some time in jail for fraud! It turned out he had also not been putting all the fertilizer on that farmers had paid for!
Now the next year when the wayward farmers came back to the local dealer, who do you think got treated best?

[TOM4CWB]

Cowman;

If we farmers had 12% markup over cost we would be VERY happy... there is simply not this much profit in the grain business.

6-8% is much closer to a reasonable number, which many will sell at... if they need a stable long term relationship with those farmers who they value a relationship with.

Cost control of our crop protection/fertiliser supplies is the most visible and easiest one of our costs we have a direct say in how much we pay.

It is critical that a fair cost is charged to farmers don't you agree?