NH3 PreBuy, Simply WTF!

[hobbyfrmr]

Farms are getting bigger and profitable. The easiest way for a retailer to trigger a sale is to loosely describe what the "big guys" are doing and/or buying.
They way to trigger a sale to the very large is to describe something larger than them. India and China have each a billion people to feed. They know it's cheaper to import fertilizer and increase yields at home than it is to import grain/food. When they step into the market they will move prices and possibly interrupt supply. So, ACT NOW, protect your margins and secure your supply. You don't want machines sitting, paying men to sit for for 8 hours waiting for anhydrous delivery.
The retailer knows to scare the tiny fish with a small fish, small fish with big fish and big fish with a whale. Dr. Suess retailing at its finest.
Who can argue with Dr. Suess?

[SASKFARMER3]

Is that 800 US dollars or Canadian.
At 800 its 44.3 cents a lb. Take a profit take deliver costs to farm. So they get 15% profit on product and then three cents for costs and delivery.
If my math is right.
Fair price is 54 with exchange. Anything higher is F#$King Robbery!!!!!!!!

[SASKFARMER3]

Best price should be .51.6 delivered.

But if your paying 60 your getting Screwed pass the Vaseline!

[bgmb]

Cdn dollars per tonne

[bgmb]

Fair value is around 900-925 full service i would think

[SASKFARMER3]

Yes .511 or .497 Basically at .61 or higher its a Christmas miracle they can screw people that bad.

[sawfly]

pricing
years ago at a CWB meeting.
i was asking why the pathetic malt barley price under 3$

answer well we price world price , less freight back to prairies.

well WTF ,i said make em pay world price plus freight back here. your the board where else can they get the barley.

could not do that , hurts getting value added industry here.

Contrast that with adding freight
to the gulf and then some to fert. made here .
i guess we don't add value to anything

[bgmb]

federated coop should build a big ammonia and urea plant.

[bgmb]

farmers need to be like agrium and own the whole supply chain.

[bucket]

Good idea. But federated would show more market strength by buying about 4 boatloads of overseas fertilizer and shoving it right into the heart of the prairies.

[SASKFARMER3]

Pioneer pre at .56 full yea real nice!

[Hopperbin]

Blackpowder perhaps one needs an on farm tank and redirect some of them loads. Any economics in it. Tanks are expensive plus the self filling or hauling.