Grrrr!

[Chuckie]

I just got a fertilizer bill :shock: on an 18 acre field of cotton. I pay 1/3 and I thought they made a mistake and sent the entire bill to me. My third came to $457.00. That really burns my rear. Shock is an understatement! It is really good ground at that, and has had two years of soybeans on it. Next year it will be in hay. I guess I can complain next year when I have to pay the whole bill.

 

[Bama]

Fertilizer went up along with the gas prices. I'm cutting way back on the use of it this year. With the prices so high the return on investment is not nearly what it has been.

 

[SPRINGER FARMS MURRAY GRE]

I bought 270 gallons of off road diesel,and 4 tons of triple 13.....$1400.00 ! :shock: :shock: :shock:

 

[Bez]

Where I come from that is cheap.

Bez

 

[Crowderfarms]

Goes to show that they don't mind puttin a hurting on a Man trying to put Food on the rest of the Country's Supper table.We've paid out the nose too. We're all in the same boat.

 

[Jeanne - Simme Valley]

My husband is plant manager of a fertilizer plant. He blends products & they deliver. Cut throat business right now. The big farmers have not cut back though, they know they won't get results without it.
Said the big boys have a new tech toy (global tracking)- it tells them EXACTLY where to line up for each row so that there is no overlap of product.

 

[jerry27150]

i've cut back to nothing. costs too much to justify now. glad i planted more legumes as they provide nitrogen for the grass. you can buy hay or cut back on cows & still make more money than applying fertilizer on hay ground now.

 

[Chuckie]

My rear is still burning, and I don't see an extinguisher any where in sight! I guess lime is eating a hole in the pocket book too. How much has it gone up this year? Since I didn't need any this year, I am sure it will take a bite out of me next year. The land was limed two years ago. The bad part is that the farmer won't see the prices go up. It will be the man on the end that says he had to pay more to purchase it because of the high fertilizer bills. The country would be in a mess if all the farmers could hold everything back for a year. But we have to eat too. Guess we all could plant a big ole garden and put up some beef and sit back. Not likely to happen, but it's fun to think about "what if ?"

 

[icandoit]

Doggoneit, your gettin my blood to boil now. I was having a nice time reading these posts until I got to this one. This sounds like the gas thing. They can raise prices at will and no one fights back, but how do you fight back back even if you wanted to? Write your Congressman? HA, thats a joke. Those people in Wasington just do what they want. I'm here to tell ya, the lid will blow off on them one day.

Dick

 

[Chuckie]

icandoit, I was just kiddin' !!!!

 

[Campground Cattle]

Doggoneit, your gettin my blood to boil now. I was having a nice time reading these posts until I got to this one. This sounds like the gas thing. They can raise prices at will and no one fights back, but how do you fight back back even if you wanted to? Write your Congressman? HA, thats a joke. Those people in Wasington just do what they want. I'm here to tell ya, the lid will blow off on them one day.

Dick

You are right where was the American Public when we were losing 40,000 American jobs as the Oil indudtry was going belly up in the 90's. Why does the American Public fight building a refinery to increase supply to provide cheaper fuel. You can't get blood out of a turnip only turnip juice which is bitter.
Our refining infrastructure is thirty+ years old, do you really think demand has not increased ever year while supply has remained stagnet. It hasn't it has been increasing about 225 MBPD per year thats the equavilent to a new refinery a year.
We haven't built a refinery since the seventies there was a huge surplus in this county for years it is gone. If growth predictions are correct it will continue to get worse over the next 5 years. We need 2 500,000 MBPD refinerys over the next five years just to keep up with growth. If not here in another country suppling us, now we get back to the start, the American oil industry is gone except for Exxon/Mobil the rest are predominantly owned by our enimies are advasaries. We enjoyed the cheapest power in the world and let it be destroyed by government regulation that our competitors did not have to comply with. Enjoy sending your money overseas until we wake up and start rebuilding our infrastucture and drilling here. You can not survive as a service provider nation and produce nothing.
Sorry for the rambling.

 

[jerry27150]

guy at b p amoco just told me they are talking about 3 dollar gas by the end of summer :shock: :shock:

 

[flaboy]

I bought 270 gallons of off road diesel,and 4 tons of triple 13.....$1400.00 ! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Seven tons of 18-6-4 and no diesel. $1970

 

[jt]

I bought 270 gallons of off road diesel,and 4 tons of triple 13.....$1400.00 ! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Seven tons of 18-6-4 and no diesel. $1970

18-6-4... that seems like a very low number of units per 100# of fertilizer... ??? and a lot of money for it.. ??

what am i missing??

jt

 

[flaboy]

I bought 270 gallons of off road diesel,and 4 tons of triple 13.....$1400.00 ! :shock: :shock: :shock:

Seven tons of 18-6-4 and no diesel. $1970

18-6-4... that seems like a very low number of units per 100# of fertilizer... ??? and a lot of money for it.. ??

what am i missing??

jt

Didn't need phosphorous or potassium as we have heavy clay based soil. 30-X--X was almost $500 a ton.

 

[jt]

when i buy just ammonia, it is 34-0-0 and cost about 285 a ton.

jt

 

[Chuckie]

icandoit, speaking of writing my congressman, Mr. Ford in Tennessee is in jail as we speak (I hope) after falling for a scheme set up by the FBI. They created a false company and he took a $50,000 bribe. Then he told them if a witness came forth and reported it, then he had a gun and he would shoot them dead. Got all of this on tape too. Then the day before they took him in, he filed for full retirment and health benefits. After they took him in, they gave him his full retirement and health benefits. Now, to figure out what can be done with the Tennessee congress as getting things better here. Looks like I will not have enough cash to buy the prices down on fuel and fertilizer, and I am not a congressman....... since they went ahead and gave him his retirement package now they will have to jack both of them (fuel and fertilizer) up higher to take care of his sorry a$$.

 

[flaboy]

when i buy just ammonia, it is 34-0-0 and cost about 285 a ton.

jt

Dang, ours is 30-0-0. If I could get it for $285/ton I would do it again in a month. Where are you located? Bagged or in the big trailer? I now have access to a drop spreader that I can use with the bulk delivery truck/trailers.

 

[flaboy]

icandoit, speaking of writing my congressman, Mr. Ford in Tennessee is in jail as we speak (I hope) after falling for a scheme set up by the FBI. They created a false company and he took a $50,000 bribe. Then he told them if a witness came forth and reported it, then he had a gun and he would shoot them dead. Got all of this on tape too. Then the day before they took him in, he filed for full retirment and health benefits. After they took him in, they gave him his full retirement and health benefits. Now, to figure out what can be done with the Tennessee congress as getting things better here. Looks like I will not have enough cash to buy the prices down on fuel and fertilizer, and I am not a congressman....... since they went ahead and gave him his retirement package now they will have to jack both of them (fuel and fertilizer) up higher to take care of his sorry a$$.

We had a Mayor of a rather large city down here brought up on charges of paying to have someone collect/get votes for him. I guess it went too far up the ladder and the charges were dropped he got his back pay and his job back the day they released him. They interviewed the guy who was being paid and he said he didn't think he was doing anything illegal. Just from that interview you knew the Mayor had done it but then I guess it's who you know.

 

[jt]

when i buy just ammonia, it is 34-0-0 and cost about 285 a ton.

jt

Dang, ours is 30-0-0. If I could get it for $285/ton I would do it again in a month. Where are you located? Bagged or in the big trailer? I now have access to a drop spreader that I can use with the bulk delivery truck/trailers.

flaboy, you sounded so suprised, i called to double check myself... sometimes i dont know about me :lol:

anyway, two weeks ago it was 285, the lady just told me it is now $300 :x

that is a bulk price, and they let us use their spreader.

jt