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Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance is a New Zealand farmer-owned co-operative that helps its customers to farm more productively, profitably and sustainably.
From the core business of fertiliser manufacturing, supply, sales and advice, Ballance Agri-Nutrients has grown to offer farmers a full range of science-backed nutrient products and services. This enables us to help farmers achieve soil and animal nutrition and productivity with a minimal environmental footprint.
Our agri-nutrient advice is complemented by award-winning web-based farm systems software, which enables farmers to capture and analyse a wealth of information, and so make the best management decisions for their business.
We cover the country, with one-on-one specialist advice on farm backed up by a network of rural merchant supply partners, service centres, consignment stores, manufacturing sites and our own agricultural aviation services.
As well as supporting New Zealand farmers, Ballance also supplies products to a range of industrial businesses.
Ballance Agri-Nutrients - Latest News [Page 11]
New venture meets farms’ complete nutrient needs
Friday, 13 May 2011, 1:16 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients is joining forces with New Zealand’s best independent suppliers of customised animal feeds to create a new nationwide business focused on meeting farmers’ complete animal nutrient needs from pasture through to supplements. More >>
Order fert online at Ballance and Summit Quinphos
Friday, 15 April 2011, 1:30 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Customers of one of New Zealand's largest fertiliser co-operatives Ballance Agri-Nutrients and its subsidiary Summit Quinphos can now order their fertiliser over the internet, with the recent launch of new online ordering services. More >>
Low soil fertility has paddocks under pressure
Wednesday, 6 April 2011, 5:14 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Some of New Zealand’s farm paddocks are reaching a nutrient tipping point says Warwick Catto, Head of Research and Environment at Ballance Agri-Nutrients. ‘Many paddocks are now close to slipping below the levels required to sustain quality pasture ... More >>
Boost lamb returns with urea
Tuesday, 29 March 2011, 1:56 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
29 March 2011 Boost lamb returns with urea Rising lamb prices have given farmers a chance to boost their returns through tactical fertiliser applications, says Ballance Agri-Nutrients’ Head of Research and Environment, Warwick Catto. ‘At this time ... More >>
Ballance invests to help customers farm smarter
Monday, 14 March 2011, 10:14 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients is taking a majority shareholding in Farmworks Systems Ltd and will be adding the company's on-line farm information and management tools, known as Ag-Hub, to the products and services Ballance sells to farmers. More >>
Ballance steps in with more than just fertiliser
Tuesday, 18 January 2011, 9:58 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Farmers battled through a particularly difficult year of natural disasters in 2010, starting with drought in several regions and climaxing with the Canterbury earthquake and Southland’s severe snowstorm. More >>
Chicory Growing in Favour as a Great Feed for Farmers
Monday, 13 December 2010, 5:01 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Waikato farmers are taking a shine to chicory as a supplementary feed crop, with seed sales reaching new levels this spring. Ballance Agri-Nutrients and merchant partner RD1 are experiencing unprecedented interest in the crop, and are working ... More >>
Fly Time for Ronald McDonald House Auckland Families
Tuesday, 7 December 2010, 12:20 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Families needing help to be close to their sick children being treated at Auckland’s Starship Hospital whilst staying at the Ronald McDonald House Auckland over Christmas can take advantage from the Fly Buys donation from Summit Quinphos. The fertiliser ... More >>
Balancing act on fertiliser prices
Sunday, 5 December 2010, 5:39 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
5 December 2010 Balancing act on fertiliser prices Ballance is applying new prices from 6 December 2010 with the main changes a $100 per tonne reduction in potash and a $74 per tonne increase in diammonium phosphate (DAP). Ballance Chief Executive, ... More >>
Act now to prepare pastures for possible drought
Monday, 1 November 2010, 2:45 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Act now to prepare pastures for possible summer 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 rains. More >>
Time to apply cobalt to enhance young stock growth
Thursday, 28 October 2010, 9:23 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Farmers raising young stock through the spring should not let healthy grass growth divert them from the need for an application of cobalt onto pastures. More >>
Ballance and Hatuma partnership a win-win for NZ
Wednesday, 20 October 2010, 3:42 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Growing demand for low-input fertiliser has brought about a pioneering partnership between Hatuma Dicalcic Phosphate Ltd and Ballance Agri-Nutrients. More >>
Ballance invests to clean up the environment
Thursday, 14 October 2010, 10:02 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients 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. More >>
Ballance appoints new Human Resources Manager
Thursday, 30 September 2010, 5:07 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Simon Batters has joined Ballance Agri-Nutrients at its head office in Mount Maunganui in the role of Human Resource Manager, effective 28 September. More >>
Ballance ready to help shareholders
Thursday, 30 September 2010, 2:25 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients 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 in Hamilton (29 September). More >>
Cropping granule delivers DAP with boron
Friday, 17 September 2010, 3:43 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients has launched a compound granule that gives crops a nutrient kick-start of DAP fertiliser while treating boron deficiency at the same time. More >>
Ballance scholarships support ag industry future
Tuesday, 31 August 2010, 2:44 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Students considering their career path could have their study to become part of one of the nation’s most secure industries supported as Ballance Agri-Nutrients offers up to four more scholarships valued at $4,000 a year to immediate family members ... More >>
Ballance posts profit and pays rebate
Thursday, 29 July 2010, 2:20 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients has reported a successful turnaround for its financial year to 31 May, to produce a healthy $21 million trading result that enables it to pay a rebate and dividend while increasing group equity ratio to 65%. More >>
Fert prices to remain unpredictable
Thursday, 24 June 2010, 4:44 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Fertiliser industry leader Larry Bilodeau, chief executive of Ballance Agri-Nutrients, says the global outlook for agriculture is very good, but the unstable financial climate will continue to cause unpredictable price fluctuations in fertiliser commodity ... More >>
Nutrient intake provides better returns
Friday, 4 June 2010, 2:52 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Look after the nutritional needs of your stock, and the returns will follow. More >>
