Feb 13, 2012
Much of the conventional fertiliser model is based on the premise that the cheapest input is the best. This ignores the performance aspect of products and there are many examples where the cheapest products available simply do not perform as well or provide the range...
Feb 12, 2012
The structure of soil has a strong influence on the quantity of pasture grown from now until rain arrives in autumn. After a wet winter, in areas where treading damage has been unavoidable, the soil may have become a little compacted with the bulk of permanent pasture...
Jan 30, 2012
Human nature being what it is, a degree of nervousness about the amount of growth over the coming summer is to be expected, however past growth records combined with the digging of a few holes will help with feed budgeting. Here in the Rotorua district the December...
Nov 30, 2011
Dairy cows are amazingly tough and resilient animals with the majority remaining outdoors all year. Diets vary widely; most survive through harsh winter and early spring conditions, give birth, and produce remarkably well. Some years ago a farmer in the Waikato...
Sep 30, 2011
A dairy farmer entering his fourth season on a large dairy conversion phoned to ask whether an application of dolomite would help relieve the growing number of calcium/magnesium related problems on his property. As that question could not be adequately answered...
Sep 30, 2011
It was about twenty years ago at the start of my work in the fertiliser industry that Golden Bay dolomite for me became an essential resource. I came across a small group of dairy farmers in the Matamata region that claimed to have minimal animal health issues of any...
