Cheapest way to fertilize?

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Cheapest way to fertilize?

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Somewhere I read that liquid fertilizer is cheaper than solid fertilizer.

But there are more ways to fertilize.
How about manure, slurry and oilseed radish?

What’s the cheapest way to fertilize with those included?

(while buying the manure and slurry from a selling point)

Cause slurry seems really cheap, but you use a LOT of it!
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I think solid is best to begin with as it's cheap to buy a little spreader that can also do lime.
Digestate and slurry/manure are obviously free once you have all the other elements in place but it takes a long time and a lot of investment to get there.
I think for a given field solid and liquid spraying is much faster and is a great source of income from contract jobs.
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As the price for solid/liquid fertilizer is fixed it end up like this:

usage per hectare (ideal values):
200L - solid fertilizer
300L - liquid
15000L - manure/slurry

Costs:
1920 for 1000L - solid --> 384 per hectare --> 384/15 = 26 for manure/slurry
3200 for 2000L - liquid --> 480 per hectare --> 480/15 = 32 for manure/slurry
If you can buy manure/slurry for less than 26 your have lowest costs for fertilizing per hectare.
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did a test on a test field on flat map.. the field is make so there as little waste and overspray as possible. all work done ny helpers.
i used
476l solid fertilizer = 914
715l liquid fertilizer = 1144
26292L manure from Holgers sell point = 1157
26370l Slurry from Holgers sell point = 738

so yes slurry is the cheapest way. but you will have to drive a lot.
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iwan073 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:30 am Somewhere I read that liquid fertilizer is cheaper than solid fertilizer.

But there are more ways to fertilize.
How about manure, slurry and oilseed radish?

What’s the cheapest way to fertilize with those included?

(while buying the manure and slurry from a selling point)

Cause slurry seems really cheap, but you use a LOT of it!
This is what I do on PC. I never use liquid or solid fertilizers...very expensive plus I like to preserve my polygon environment :) I place down a manure buy point....look it up. I use that plus I rotate crops plus my seconds crop is radish...with those methods I have all 3 stages covered. Now of course its more work but also satisfying.
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hun3 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:56 pm This is what I do on PC. I never use liquid or solid fertilizers...very expensive plus I like to preserve my polygon environment :)
I also like going organic. I wish there was a more tangible advantage apart from the warm and fuzzy feeling.
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hun3 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:56 pm
iwan073 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:30 am Somewhere I read that liquid fertilizer is cheaper than solid fertilizer.

But there are more ways to fertilize.
How about manure, slurry and oilseed radish?

What’s the cheapest way to fertilize with those included?

(while buying the manure and slurry from a selling point)

Cause slurry seems really cheap, but you use a LOT of it!
This is what I do on PC. I never use liquid or solid fertilizers...very expensive plus I like to preserve my polygon environment :) I place down a manure buy point....look it up. I use that plus I rotate crops plus my seconds crop is radish...with those methods I have all 3 stages covered. Now of course its more work but also satisfying.
Do you take into account the extra time, fuel and material when using o/seed radish?
I've never bothered with it before but I think seasons makes it more viable.
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You would have to factor in the price of equipment, fuel and workers wages (if applicable) per hectare also to get a full picture of the costs. I think this would bring the cost of manure way up since it needs special equipment and is slow to apply but if you are doing animals you have to deal with it anyway.
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If you factor in time and equipment usage, nothing is cheaper than solid fertilizer
I assume people don't use Seasons, unless they say otherwise.

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Alagos wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:43 pm If you factor in time and equipment usage, nothing is cheaper than solid fertilizer
On the short term yeah
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Surprised no one has mentioned making their own Fertilizer via the GC script.
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SJ_Sathanas wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:31 pm
hun3 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:56 pm
iwan073 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:30 am Somewhere I read that liquid fertilizer is cheaper than solid fertilizer.

But there are more ways to fertilize.
How about manure, slurry and oilseed radish?

What’s the cheapest way to fertilize with those included?

(while buying the manure and slurry from a selling point)

Cause slurry seems really cheap, but you use a LOT of it!
This is what I do on PC. I never use liquid or solid fertilizers...very expensive plus I like to preserve my polygon environment :) I place down a manure buy point....look it up. I use that plus I rotate crops plus my seconds crop is radish...with those methods I have all 3 stages covered. Now of course its more work but also satisfying.
Do you take into account the extra time, fuel and material when using o/seed radish?
I've never bothered with it before but I think seasons makes it more viable.
Thats a good question actually. I never did the numbers but I think going "green" probably where my main reasoning is. I try to play realistically as much as possible. Someone should do a test on this.

Let me put it this way:
- Extra seed machine etc...$5000
- Hired worker cost $1000
- Saving the health of our mother planet...Priceless :)
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hun3 wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 7:13 pm
SJ_Sathanas wrote: Thu Oct 17, 2019 4:31 pm
hun3 wrote: Mon Oct 14, 2019 6:56 pm

This is what I do on PC. I never use liquid or solid fertilizers...very expensive plus I like to preserve my polygon environment :) I place down a manure buy point....look it up. I use that plus I rotate crops plus my seconds crop is radish...with those methods I have all 3 stages covered. Now of course its more work but also satisfying.
Do you take into account the extra time, fuel and material when using o/seed radish?
I've never bothered with it before but I think seasons makes it more viable.
Thats a good question actually. I never did the numbers but I think going "green" probably where my main reasoning is. I try to play realistically as much as possible. Someone should do a test on this.

Let me put it this way:
- Extra seed machine etc...$5000
- Hired worker cost $1000
- Saving the health of our mother planet...Priceless :)
What about all the extra emissions the tractors are making with more hours? Would that outweigh the benefits of green fertilizer?
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don't forget the lost income potential, FS 19 seems to have very high manure and slurry sale prices( at least in the base game, don't have seasons yet so haven't seen if that changes anything).

take into account the pioneer pallet mod and solid fertilizer is very cheap, selling a few thousand liters of manure and you can buy a good amount of solid fertilizer
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Simple answer, don't fertilize. I just started exploring organic farming, then I got sick of running back and forth with poop.
Found this fertilizer free way to get max crop yields (on console with # fertilizer states, so probably won't work with seasons and 3 fertilizer states)

On a freshly harvested, unfertilized field.
1-If you play with lime required, spread lime if needed
2- use "Agromasz BM75" weeder but configured for "mode mulch harrow", this will give +1 fertilizer state
3- sow field with oilseed radish, rate of usage is very slow so cost is minimal.
Must use a direct drill with no fertilizer function or leave fert tank empty
4- once oilseed reaches first growth, sow it with crop you want. Now you will have full fertilized state and a crop in the ground.
5- go to workshop with agromasz bm75, switch to " mode weeder", then head out to field an wait for those evil weeds to appear so you can pull them out before they mature.

This allows you to get maximum yield with the minimal cost of 1 tractor, 1 seeder, 1 weeder and some seed

EDIT, forgot the plowing if you play with periodic plowing and field needs plowing do this between steps 2-3
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