EXTRA N for my THIRD CUT! | WE must DEFEND straight UREA fertilizer!

I use a long day spreading UREA to explain why it is so important that it isn't banned!
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[@ActionAgri]

Refreshing to see someone with a platform using it to push issues that effect farmers instead of just playing it safe so their youtube/social media money doesn’t be effected, well done and keep up the good work 👏🏻

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I am definitely not motivated by the money! I want farmers to be more engaged in the politics of farming!

[@stephenkelly2067]

You can be sure with bow tie boy as agri minister you know we are screwed

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Yep, we all need to prepare for battle. 🫡

[@wyndhamhewlett8223]

WORLD ECONOMIC FORUM IS RUNNING ALL OF US!!!! AGENDA 203O.

[@jonathancathcart-m1t]

Great video! I have been sowing protected urea and was unaware of the science around ordinary urea! Great detail and information in your videos and your using the platform very well to get information out to people 👌👏🏻

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Thanks! I enjoy the detailed videos most!

[@Krypton-jx4zg]

Well said and explained about the fertiliser - but what i cant get over is you checking your phone for the weather for next fortnight - they cant get it right for tomorrow!

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Excellent point!

[@yant8777]

I think you were right to top dress Andrew, modern ryegrass loves and needs lots of Nitrogen. Well said on the Urea too.

[@danmurphy6541]

All good informative stuff, i was misinformed about the urea loss story..I’ll be using more of it..

[@johnsweeney1712]

Great video. Massive tractor for spreading fertiliser, having said that it’s the right colour… surely you should keep the spreader if it’s as usable and modern as the tractor. Keep up the good work.

[@sweed58]

You are right,a lot of companies make a lot of money from farmers

[@martyae]

Very informative, thank you

[@matthewglennen1172]

Been some studies done here in AUS and for the extra cost of protected urea is not worth it. Approx 45 N every grazing here. So 45 days during autumn winter and 25 days during spring. Obviously more for silage ground. Pretty lucky for us with 3 major importers so it’s competitive. And can pick up road train loads direct from port.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

We get shafted here in N.I. on fertilizer prices, it's a cosy little club designed to keep our prices high.

[@johnmccarroll4845]

Brilliant video

[@ALFIEJ9]

It is so true though and I am for Northern Ireland to

[@jameszy88]

I also have these rants in the tractor cab, but I don’t have a camera 😂

[@bryantaggart8007]

Around Bushmills the ground is very dry needs rain and more importantly heat

[@rodneycantley988]

I done the same yesterday on my s cut

[@deniscousley6905]

The current agricultural minister at stormont is an activist !

[@jamessmyth8517]

Here in South of ire its mandatory to spread protected urea if in derogation if you spread urea.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I know, it's so dumb.

[@scrapjockey3130]

What is the protection on the urea made from. Is it going to be a problem in the future, micro plastics, chemical traces in food?

[@GreenGrassDairyInsights]

Great info

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Glad it was helpful!

[@seanlynch898]

It would be interesting to hear your thoughts on foliar applied urea, Andrew

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I need to do more reading, it looks very promising tbh, I was very sceptical

[@jimbostruckingvids8173]

man of knowledge 👌. these videos are awesome .are you fully in charge of your farm .or does your dad have the last say .keep up the great work..

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Fully in charge since the moment I came home, it was a battle but it was my way and that was that. 🤣

[@jimbostruckingvids8173]

@FarmTheoryNI brilliant.🤣.well keep up the great videos. 👍🏻

[@padraigking5185]

Good stuff

[@hefboy123]

haw much urea do you use on your first cut and second??? do you use it on your grazing ground???

[@vxnova1]

I see the Americans use anhydrous ammonia here to apply nitrogen to the corn crops,

[@paulogorman7478]

Keep up the good work with information and knowledge 👍👍🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪☘️

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Thanks! I will!

[@alimurphy155]

I feel a petition coming along 🤔.

[@gonk227]

Hear in the north east the fields are mega dry yous must of got some rain.

[@tonymckeage1050]

Great Video, a very interesting theme, Thanks for sharing

[@mickdollard6306]

If you decide to buy the spreader, do you keep thay one (if it was given on demo as new) or discounted as a demo or wait for a new one, and if you have to wait for a new one, can you keep the demo till then?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Keep this one, it was the spec I wanted. No decisions made yet but it really is a brilliant bit of kit. Never thought it could possibly be worth it when I got it....

[@bsom6365]

Good Video Andrew, what about your P&K requirements, do you just rely on the slurry to get this into the ground or is the fact your re-seeding fields mean this isn't really an issue. Spreading CAN here for he first time as they grass is just not growing and the cattle & sheep are cleaning the fields off at some rate.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

You will still need a little P and lots of K. Slurry can't supply enough

[@williamwilson8327]

Andrew wright for MP

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I would vote for him. 😅

[@peterdavidson5289]

I have the same spreader and its totally worth buying it,i love it (Amazone sponsor me please)

[@judefullerton4002]

How much urea would you recommend to too dress a good dose of fym to give grass a boost for grazing? Also how much kg to the acre for silage crop after slurry early march tia

[@FarmTheoryNI]

For grazing I go 100kg-150kg/ha depending on the time of year

[@jerryryan8769]

Dose putting the protective coating add much to the carbon footprint of the product before it even comes into your yard . Basically is the coating process adding more of a carbon footprint than the potential losses of using normal urea ?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Probably very little added emissions. I imagine it's almost zero

[@DM-eq1fq]

Any chance of you doing a video covering dosing regimes and the efficacy of pour-on vs drench vs injection. It would save me from doing it.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It's one of them job I leave to my dad. 😅

[@DM-eq1fq]

@@FarmTheoryNI Can he do the video?

[@usere65]

Morning Andrew. Good information well done you. The reason we spread prot urea over straight nitrogen is to get the added sulfer in the prot urea example 37N + 7S. Sulfer is extremely important in dry sandy soil .

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Sulphur can be applied in one application, I used PolySulphate this year for my sulphur supply, Ammonium sulphate is the cheapest form

[@6thcence897]

What about liquid nitrogen

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It seems to be a great option if you have the equipment

[@wesleyhastings3961]

Could be sulphur

[@wesleyhastings3961]

That will make the leaves yellow like that sulphur only lasts for a couple weeks, little and often

[@FarmTheoryNI]

All these fields got lots of Sulphur earlier in the year, it could have leached out already but it shouldn't have.

[@roberthiggins6401]

Funny that ammonium was allowed all those years ago though. All favors the Corporate world and never the small out smaller business.

[@andrewbaird3431]

Surprised at how little 3rd cut you have, or was this video made a few weeks ago? I think we did 1st and 2nd at similar time to you and we are ready for 3rd . On the protected urea, was at a grass meeting in the spring and the kiwi presenter (forget his name) said the coating is also toxic, so won't be doing the soil biology any good. Have just bought sweet grass this time (23can 5sulfur,5salt). Find urea awkward on the grazing platform as you need so many acres to use a bag @23 units N/grazing , or 1/4 of the platform. Then you get a few dry days so wait to put it on and before you know it you've half of it to do and the cows are halfway to being back in it.

[@FarmTheoryNI]

I am as surprised as you how little third cut I have! 😅

[@aboutthefarmer]

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[@philiptyndall4968]

Yara will kidnap you Andrew and Russian spies will rescue you 😂

[@philiptyndall4968]

As an aside. I like protected urea. I can go when I like and I’m not having to wait for rain to come at this time of year to spread

[@keithk1246]

Wait for rain!🤣 Your good craic. We get it everyday.😪​@@philiptyndall4968

[@FarmTheoryNI]

It is definitely a risk. 🤣🥷

[@greggroome2791]

🙏👏👏👏🇮🇪🇮🇪👍👍💪💪

[@alexnicholas2371]

Crazy that Irish farmers can’t be trusted with ammonium nitrate 🤣

[@FarmTheoryNI]

You have never been to South Armagh. 🤣

[@PowershiftScotland]

So Yara and other Fertiliser company's Profit$ jumped by 6 x 10 times! Sounds as though they were Profiteering. And the Nordstream Gas pipeline was also destroyed. Mmmm!!?

[@FarmTheoryNI]

Yep, total greed!

[@Gadsden1776]

We ain’t free of the EU yet…. 🥲🥲😢