Slurry: don’t waste a drop

FARMERS have been strongly advised to get ‘absolute maximum use’ from their slurry this Spring – with little sign of a price reduction in bag fertiliser.

Connacht IFA Chair, Pat Murphy, told the Farming Tribune, that it was never more important to get ‘every last bit’ of value from their slurry than it was this year*. He also advised that it probably was best for farmers purchasing fertilisers to ‘buy as you go’ in the hope that prices might come back a bit during the Summer.

“For the fertiliser that has already been manufactured during the peak of the high gas prices, we certainly don’t think that this is going to come down in price through the early Spring.

“We do know that natural gas prices have eased off over recent weeks, but we simply don’t know how much of an impact this will have on prices over the coming months.

“Most farmers will be looking at a reduction in the volume of fertilisers they are buying this Spring with urea selling at over €900 a tonne – so, maybe a buy as you go policy might be the best tactic,” said Pat Murphy.

He added that the current dry spell of weather – coinciding with the end of the closed season for spreading slurry in the west on January 15 last – was at least some good news for farmers with tanks full or almost full.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.

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