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Automated fertiliser spreading with a Vicon RO XL GEOspread is raising accuracy and cutting tedium on a Canterbury cropping farm.

Peat soils, in their natural state, have high organic matter content, and low nutrient levels and water table fluctuations, so they behave differently from mineral soils in nutrient transformations and cycling.

Ballance Agri-Nutrients has formed a team to help farmers deal with councils in sorting their compliance with environmental regulations and in applying for consents.

Plummeting oil prices haven’t translated into much cheaper fertiliser yet and it’s unlikely they will any time soon, says Ravensdown.

NEW RESEARCH funded by Ballance Agri-Nutrients that will look at the most efficient use of nitrogen fertiliser for pasture growth.

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.