"As these fertiliser prices are getting higher I guess VRT is starting to be pretty interesting."

Name: "As these fertiliser prices are getting higher I guess VRT is starting to be pretty interesting."
Uploaded: 2024-09-10T01:51:17+00:00
Duration: 44 s
Channel: Gerri the NVT Guru
Description: Gerri the NVT Guru shows how variable rate technology cuts fertilizer costs. By targeting high-yield areas instead of applying the top rate everywhere…

10 Sept 2024 · 1 min

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Gerri the NVT Guru shows how variable rate technology cuts fertilizer costs. By targeting high-yield areas instead of applying the top rate everywhere, one paddock saved about $21,000. With fertilizer prices climbing, VRT is becoming harder to ignore.

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We can work out how much N we've put on so we know how much we've taken out with the crop. And we look at the N balance and we've got a costing here to cover the N and the P that was put on for the crop. So when we go through how that translates into costs is we spread an average of 221 kilos across that paddock. So the top rate was 315 kilos. The bottom rate was 159. Had we thought what we really need to target our top yield or area, and we spent 315 across the whole lot. Our savings with variable rate for the different areas work out at those tallies up to about $21,000. As these fertilizer prices are getting higher, it's, I guess variable rate is starting to be pretty interesting for everyone.