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OPINION: Every year, December 5 marks World Soil Day. This date wasn’t chosen at random, it’s the birthday of the late King Bhumibol Adulyadej of Thailand, a passionate advocate for soil stewardship. 

Ballance Agri-Nutrients is expanding its fixed price offer to help customers manage input costs with greater certainty over the coming season. 

Ballance Agri-Nutrients fertiliser SustaiN – which contains a urease inhibitor that reduces the amount of ammonia released to the air – has now been registered by the Ministry of Primary Industries (MPI). It is the first fertiliser in New Zealand to achieve this status.

An innovative dairy effluent management system is being designed to help farmers improve on-farm effluent practices and reduce environmental impact.

Banks and rural businesses are chipping in to help farmers in Southland and Otago.

When Kelvin Wickham stepped into the chief executive's role at Ballance Agri-Nutrients one year ago, it was more challenging than he had expected.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients has launched SimplyFert, an ex-hub and therefore lower-cost offering said to give its shareholders choice and flexibility for purchasing nutrients.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients is offering fixed price nitrogen to farmer shareholders from September.

Recognising how nutrition can limit or optimise the productivity of livestock is crucial to the future of the dairy industry, according to SealesWinslow general manager Grant Jackson.

Fertiliser co-operative Ballance’s revenue and gross profit tumbled last year as the co-op prioritised passing on price and cost savings to customers through the year.