Your paying for fertiliser that has not even been manufactured, fancy asking your merchant for an advance of 6 months on your forward sold grain...........come to think of it many Irish lads do that with merchant credit
, but there is a auld 5% charge for the privilege. Falling prices take the big risk out of the game, no point been too worried, only danger is to be tempted back to high input.
Heard of lads irrigating spring barley yesterday. Do they not realise SB at 135? Would you put pump and engines into a field in Ireland for less than half a ton of barley, I doubt it. I suppose easier than blaming the weather for losing money