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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 12]
Research on post-drought recovery says act now
Friday, 30 April 2010, 1:20 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
New research suggests there is no benefit to be gained from holding off applying nitrogen fertiliser for several weeks after ‘drought-breaking’ rain has fallen. More >>
Environmental Issues Here To Stay
Thursday, 15 April 2010, 10:03 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Environmental issues associated with farming are here to stay, and farmers need to act now to prevent further government regulation, senior Ballance Agri-Nutrients’ speakers have emphasised at Ballance Farm Environment Awards events around the country. More >>
Novel competition delivers data on turnip yields
Monday, 22 March 2010, 3:51 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Novel competition delivers hard data on turnip yield A novel competition created by Ballance Agri-Nutrients has provided some northern King Country dairy farmers with their first real analysis of the value of their turnip crop yields. More >>
New director brings fresh thinking to the table
Monday, 22 March 2010, 2:56 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients Limited has appointed a new independent director from outside the rural sector to bring a new dimension to its board. The fertiliser co-operative’s Chairman David Graham has invited Tony McNeil, who has just stepped down as Managing ... More >>
Ballance lends a hand with Maori Excellence Trophy
Monday, 15 March 2010, 11:09 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
For the second year running Ballance Agri-Nutrients has taken on the challenging task of coordinating all aspects of the Ahuwhenua Trophy – BNZ Maori Excellence in Farming Award’s judging process. More >>
Global Fertiliser Price Rises Reach Farmers
Friday, 19 February 2010, 5:14 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Strong price rises for key fertiliser commodities overseas have started to manifest themselves on New Zealand farms, with Ballance Agri-Nutrients lifting its DAP price, effective tomorrow 20 February 2010. More >>
Scholarships reward commitment to farming
Friday, 12 February 2010, 9:29 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Outstanding commitment to the future of the rural sector has earned three young students tertiary education scholarships from Ballance Agri-Nutrients. The farmer-owned fertiliser co-operative has singled out students from Ohaupo near Hamilton, Ruawai ... More >>
Fertiliser Price Pressures Building
Tuesday, 9 February 2010, 4:16 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
With the global financial crisis now settling into a slow recovery, international pressures are returning to fertiliser pricing. Ballance Agri-Nutrients Chief Executive Larry Bilodeau explains that during the past year prices have been near or below ... More >>
Farmers’ ‘freedom to farm’ faces fresh challenges
Wednesday, 13 January 2010, 9:46 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Farmers need to lift their game in demonstrating self-management of nutrient losses from their farms, or more regulation could follow, warns Ballance Agri-Nutrients’ top scientist. Warwick Catto, the fertiliser co-operative’s Head of Agro-Sciences, ... More >>
Fertiliser price changes add to the mix
Tuesday, 5 January 2010, 9:39 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
With the recent change in pricing relativity now favouring mixes of superten and urea over the alternative of DAP, it is likely that demand for special mixes containing superten and Ballance’s patented Coated N-rich Urea will increase over late summer ... More >>
The growing influence of fertiliser
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:37 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Climate change scenarios are adding to the potential for massive food shortages around the world, increasing the need for farmers to produce even more from their land. More >>
Farming for the future with fertiliser science
Tuesday, 29 December 2009, 9:36 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Rollercoaster fertiliser pricing over the past few years has got farmers asking how they can get the biggest bang for their fertiliser buck, and technology could well provide some of the answers. More >>
Side dressings essential for good crop yield
Tuesday, 22 December 2009, 2:36 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Winter and all that goes with it may seem like a long way off, but a bit of planning now will ensure that your forage crops will see you and your stock through the colder months. Farmers planning to utilise brassicas as a source of supplementary feed this ... More >>
Get your timing right, and the profits will follow
Thursday, 17 December 2009, 11:44 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Dairy farmers considering applying nitrogen to their pastures this summer just need to get their timing right and the profits will follow, says Ballance Head of Agro-Sciences Warwick Catto. ‘Timing of summer nitrogen applications is critical – you need ... More >>
Brassicas for back-up
Tuesday, 17 November 2009, 12:27 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
When pasture growth or quality is insufficient to meet stock needs, many farmers turn to brassica crops for back-up. More >>
Ballance grows its safety record
Tuesday, 3 November 2009, 4:17 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Ballance Agri-Nutrients has joined the elite group of employers on the top tier of the ACC Workplace Safety Management Practices programme following an ACC audit. The farmer-owned co-operative has been awarded ACC Tertiary Accreditation across its ... More >>
New Directors Add Depth to Ballance Board
Wednesday, 14 October 2009, 11:35 am | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
There will be two new faces around Ballance Agri-Nutrients’ board table on 28 October following a ballot of the co-operative’s farmer shareholders. Gray Baldwin, a Putaruru dairy farmer, won the vacancy for the western North Island ward and Canterbury farmer ... More >>
Cobalt required for lamb growth
Thursday, 8 October 2009, 12:12 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Media release 7 October 2009 Cobalt required for lamb growth Good pasture growth through the spring months could disguise a chemical deficiency that will hold back the growth rates of weaned lambs. Jeff Morton, a Ballance Agri-Nutrients ... More >>
Ballance foresees a return to normalcy
Thursday, 1 October 2009, 1:55 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
Media release for immediate use 1 October 2009 Ballance foresees a return to normalcy Ballance Agri-Nutrients chairman David Graham believes the worst is behind the co-operative as global fertiliser prices return to more traditional levels. ... More >>
1980s Think Big project celebrates milestone
Thursday, 17 September 2009, 3:10 pm | Ballance Agri-Nutrients
One of the late Rob Muldoon’s Think Big projects is paying handsome dividends decades later, just as current Prime Minister John Key considers his own infrastructure investment super strategy. The country’s only ammonia-urea manufacturing plant, located at ... More >>
