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Farm Tender Daily - All the news for Thursday, the 14th of August, 2025.

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Farm Inputs Report Update by Ellen Garland 0418 137 224

Listing of the week - Vermi Granule 3-5mm —— Vermi Granule 4-10mm

Fertiliser - The Urea price remains firm, with another increase to as high as $940.00 per tonne ex all ports. There are some suppliers that are at $910.00 per tonne but gradually lifting every few days. We have access to Urea ex Geelong at $885.00 per tonne and ex Newcastle at $895.00 per tonne. If you require stock for August, September or October, please get in touch to secure. SOA remains at $490.00 per tonne ex all ports, we have stock at $465.00 per tonne ex Geelong and Newcastle. MAP and DAP prices remain steady, MAP is $1320.00 per tonne and DAP $1380 per tonne ex all ports. Single Super has gone up to $550.00 ex Geelong, Newcastle and Portland, $565.00 per tonne ex Adelaide. Granulock Z is $1,400.00 per tonne (All ports). If you are looking to lock in some Croplift 15 (or equivalent) ex Brisbane, Newcastle or Geelong, currently priced at $970.00 per tonne. No change to Potash prices this week. MoP $760.00 per tonne (All ports). SoP remains at $1,260.00 ex Brisbane, Geelong and Adelaide, $1,280.00 ex Newcastle and $1,270.00 ex Portland. We can provide a quote on any customer blend with any analysis, we have contracted various blends this week including a 2:1 (SSP/MoP) blend, priced at $640.00 per tonne ex Newcastle and Geelong.  We also locked in the same product ex Port Kembla at $650.00 per tonne (Port Kembla has a $10 per tonne premium). One other one we did was a Urea 40%/ DAP 30%/ MoP 20% and SOA 10% ex Geelong at $1,005.00 per tonne. As mentioned last week, if you are looking for alternative fertiliser products, we have a range of products available from Lawrie Co and Cropping Solutions to name a few. I have added the Vermi Granule this week as the product of the week. This is a premium product that has had superior results to the Vermi Pellet. 

Chemical - All Chemical prices have lifted significantly over the past week. The prices listed below are market prices, our price is in brackets next to each product: 
Glyphosate 450 (1000L Shuttles) - $4.40 + GST per litre ($4.20 + GST)
Glyphosate 540 (1000L Shuttles) - $5.40 + GST per litre ($5.10 + GST)
Trifluralin 480 (1000L Shuttles) - $6.10 + GST per litre ($5.75 + GST)
Paraquat 250 (1000L Shuttles) - $3.96 + GST per litre ($3.70 + GST)
Righthook (Prosulfercarb) (1000L Shuttle) - $6.80 + GST per litre ($6.50 + GST)
Blender (Kombi 950) (20kg) - $95.00 + GST per bag  ($85.00 + GST)
Atrazine (15kg) - $140.00 + GST per 15kg bag ($130.00 + GST)
(Please note that all prices listed are ex GST)

Today’s Trends - Ever since we have changed our fees to a tiered system we have attached many more big ticket item listings.

What things sold - Spreaders, Oats, Buffalo Calves, Spreaders, Tractor, Bulldozer, Farm Truck, GPS Equipment, Wheaten Hay, Vetch Hay, Auger, Wheaten Straw and Tipper Trailers.

What was in this mornings edition of The Farmers Club.

• We received numerous responses to the MLA CEO Michael Crowley’s reply. A couple of Farmers gave me a blast as to the way I went about it, which was fair enough. It makes good reading.

• Do you believe the best form of marketing is word of mouth? I believe so, and I’m starting to see it through the subscription sign-ups.

• What is being unique? How do you set yourself apart from the pack? We write about this very topic.

• Where do you get your Ag info from? I am interested in asking if you still read the Ag newspapers or listen to the Country hour, etc.

• The reason I ask the above question is that I have this in mind. I want to be the best non-journalist-trained news gatherer and writer in the country. We are probably thinking we are a media company. It’s an exciting space with opportunities to do things differently - You are invited along

• How’s your frame of mind? We wrote about how a Salmon Gum Farmer (WA) would be feeling on top of the world after seeing pictures of his Crops that look magnificent. You have to bottle those feeling when they come along.

• It was great to see former lefty politician Joel Fitzgibbon give his former party a sledgehammer on their current climate policy. He stuck up for us Farmers by saying we have got this climate stuff covered. Good stuff

• You have to read what the latest forecast that has come out of the government climate division is saying. They are using words like dire, diabolical and extremely confronting. I mean, who writes this stuff?

  
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