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With just six weeks until spring the two major fertiliser companies have dropped their prices on fertiliser nutrients.

FERTILISER CO-OP Ravensdown has called time on its money-losing Western Australian operation, five years after launching this first trans-Tasman venture.

PRICES FOR most fertilisers are down with the two main suppliers releasing new but as usual almost identical price lists.

Centre-pivot irrigator ruts are contributing to the high accident rate amongst groundspreaders.

More than 150 soil scientists from around 30 countries will meet in Queenstown in April to discuss the ins and outs of testing soil.

SUGGESTIONS THAT GPS-guided fertiliser spreading will deliver “major savings” miss a swathe of more fundamental problems with nutrient application in New Zealand, says a farmer with much expertise in the area.

COMPANIES AND products certified to Fertmark standards are at an all-time high, but a standard for product spread quality remains elusive, says Fertiliser Quality Council chairman, Neil Barton.

Reduced end-user demand and inventory destocking has been a feature of the global fertiliser market through the fourth quarter in 2012, resulting in a lull in global trading activity which is expected to continue in the first quarter, 2013.

Greg Campbell has taken over from long-serving CEO Rodney Green as head of the billion-dollar farmers' co-operative, Ravensdown.

The Fertiliser Quality Council, (FQC), has released an on-line video clip (www.fertqual.co.nz) on the benefits of precise spreading of ethical fertilisers.