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Glyphosate Based Weedkiller

I'm just off the phone to my local supplier, I was after a couple of 20l drums of a generic 360 Glyphosate. Last year I was paying £82+vat, I was just quoted £180+vat for the same product. How on earth can they justify such a huge increase in the cost, surely they can't be blaming covid.

Has anyone got a better source of Glyphosate?

I even looked at alternatives like Finalsan, but it's only 10l quantities, and costing £85+vat but looking at the labels I believe I need 1.7l of product per 8l of water, so that's a lot of product in a 20l knapsack so again extremely expensive. 

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  • PRO

    A lot of the increase is down to component chemical pricing - and the cost of shipping it in either component form or as a finished product from overseas.

    As with many products over 60% of the GLOBAL glyp supply comes from China and steep rises in shipping have badly impacted the final cost too.

    Add to that Bayer Crop Science issued a statement in Farmers Weekly mid Feb stating that there were serious difficulties in the glyphosate supply chain due to a 'mechanical failure' at a manufacturing plant.

    Unfortunately its going to knock on in all sectors - imagine how much a 1000 litre IBC of glyphosate is now to fill a farm crop sprayer!

    Expect a steep rise in produce prices from farms - and that's without the increase in costs of fertiliser.

  • PRO

    I was ordering stock in January and noticed round up pro which I use went from £55 to £95 I called the surplierr and he said storms have reackted a glyphosate factory in the USA pushing prices up

    even the cheap stuff as gone up £20 a bottle I looked on eBay straight away and brought 3 x 5ltr for £55 each round up....

     

  • PRO

    I had exactly the same shock when I ordered 20L of AlgoClear Pro - its now around £300, last year £150

    • These cleaning products are highly expensive. Google DDAC, this is the active ingredient on most of these products, you'll find it much cheaper, and better to use 😉

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