RWN News Digest
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For year's manufacturers of fertilizer throughout Europe have lost vast sums of money selling a commodity product below cost. Sound familiar? They eventually have done something about it and closed a number of major factories in order to create a sellers market. We now have fertilizer in short supply. Prices are rising rapidly. Availability is fast disappearing. Failing to apply adequate fertilizer at the appropriate time to meet crop requirements can be extremely costly in lost yield of forage dry matter. It is often more expensive to take on more land or to purchase forage than it is to buy fertilizer even when the price is through the roof. Reduced forage yields resulting from the potential lack of fertilizer in the face of rising feed prices would be a disaster for most farm businesses. Our advice is clear, high fertilizer prices are here to stay. Use fertilizer effectively. Re-seed when appropriate. New leys are far higher yielding and modern grasses have much better feed value than weed grasses. There is no point throwing expensive fertilizer at tired, old un-productive swards. Make full use of the new IGER Aber White Clovers wherever possible. MDC and IGER trials have clearly demonstrated that there is no yield penalty when grass only sward with 300 kg Nitrogen / ha are replaced with grass / Aber white clover swards with no Nitrogen fertilizer application .
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