Urea silos hit West Coast
The big blue silo lowered into place recently on Andy and Anna Thompson’s dairy farm near Hokitika is a vote of confidence in West Coast farming.
After many years of planning,...
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Prepare now for drought
The risk of summer drought well may be an unavoidable fact of life for some farmers, but there are steps they can take now to improve their chances of getting through to the autumn...
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Cobalt for spring
Spring is the best season to apply cobalt to enhance young stock growth
Farmers raising young stock through the spring should not let healthy grass growth divert them from the need...
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Hatuma partnership win-win
Growing demand for low-input fertiliser has brought about a pioneering partnership between Hatuma Dicalcic Phosphate Ltd and Ballance Agri-Nutrients.
This month, Ballance and Hatuma...
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GoClear cleans up
Ballance is manufacturing a new urea-based product at its Taranaki ammonia-urea plant that will help the new truck fleet in New Zealand run cleaner and greener.
The farmer-owned co-operative’s...
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Giving back to schools
Some new sports gear, new books, or perhaps some musical instruments? Local teachers and students at schools around the country will be pondering this question on their return to school...
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Ready to help shareholders
Ballance is in great shape to help its farmer shareholders get through a difficult spring season, its Chairman David Graham told shareholders at the co-operative’s Annual Meeting...
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Fert reps muck in
Ballance fertiliser technical sales representatives are showing their support for snow-affected farmers in the lower South Island region by offering them a hand, literally.
‘Clearly,...
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Supporting local
Ballance, one of the biggest employers in the Western Bay, has gifted cash and goods worth more than $100,000 in the past year to worthy local groups for activities ranging from dune...
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Liquid urea takes off
The move to provide bulk liquid urea into the central South Island from Rolleston is paying off handsomely for Ballance, prompting the opening of three new plants in Gore, Omarama and...
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Timaru raises the roof
Ballance is raising the roof at its Timaru Service Centre as part of a modernisation plan that has created two new fulltime jobs.
Worked has started on a $700,000 upgrade designed...
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