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ClearTech wins Fieldays innovation award
Friday, 14 June 2019, 9:46 am | Ravensdown
Ravensdown’s ClearTech dairy effluent treatment system which was developed in conjunction with Lincoln University has won a Highly Commended Award at the Fieldays innovation awards. More >>
Susan Murray wins Agricultural Communicator of the Year
Thursday, 13 June 2019, 1:58 pm | Ravensdown
Radio New Zealand’s Country Life producer and presenter Susan Murray has been named the 2019 Ravensdown Agricultural Communicator of the year. More >>
Scholarship winner passionate about precision agriculture
Tuesday, 30 April 2019, 10:35 am | Ravensdown
Ravensdown are excited to announce this year’s recipient of the Hugh Williams Memorial Scholarship, Tom Wilson. The Hugh Williams Memorial Scholarship was founded to commemorate the late Hugh Williams, a Ravensdown Director from 1987 to 2000. The ... More >>
Waterways crying out for nutrient management
Tuesday, 16 April 2019, 11:30 am | Ravensdown
Most of us are under the impression that all of New Zealand has fertile soil that’s great for growing food. It’s more or less a fairy tale. More >>
Smarter urea means farmers can buy less nitrogen
Wednesday, 27 February 2019, 2:09 pm | Ravensdown
Choosing products coated with a special urease inhibitor is one way for farmers to reduce the total amount of purchased nitrogen needed on farm. More >>
Stop slugs munching your profit margin
Monday, 18 February 2019, 3:05 pm | Ravensdown
In the last few planting seasons we have seen favourable conditions for slugs, and if favourable conditions occur again this autumn, slug populations will quickly bounce back from the hot and dry summer and pose a risk to autumn-sown crops and grass. More >>
Dairy effluent treatment system good news for water quality
Tuesday, 12 February 2019, 11:49 am | Ravensdown
New research conducted by Lincoln University on Ravensdown’s ClearTech® farm dairy effluent (FDE) treatment system in Canterbury has shown the system could have significant environmental benefits for river, lake and groundwater quality. More >>
Ravensdown PGP gets new funding boost
Tuesday, 31 July 2018, 1:22 pm | Ravensdown
Ravensdown’s Primary Growth Partnership programme has been extended to cover more geographic areas with the aim that the research outputs will be valid for 90% of hill country in New Zealand. More >>
Ravensdown appoints new GM of Culture and People
Thursday, 10 May 2018, 1:18 pm | Ravensdown
Ravensdown has appointed Katrina Benedetti to the position of General Manager of Culture and People. More >>
Ravensdown smooths university path for Sarah
Tuesday, 7 March 2017, 1:32 pm | Ravensdown
Lincoln University student, Sarah Lockhart, is this year’s recipient of the Ravensdown Hugh Williams Scholarship. More >>
Technology allows 9% of fertiliser to be redeployed
Wednesday, 8 February 2017, 11:45 am | Ravensdown
More precise aerial fertiliser spreading has already proven it can deliver environmental gains compared to blanket topdressing, but now fresh research is emerging that it will improve the bottom line of New Zealand’s hill country farmers. More >>
Ravensdown appoints new regional manager
Wednesday, 18 January 2017, 9:33 am | Ravensdown
18 JANUARY 2017 - Ravensdown has announced George Williams (Ngāti Porou) will take over the role of Regional Manager Eastern North Island. More >>
Ravensdown Awatoto Works back to normal
Friday, 2 December 2016, 1:51 pm | Ravensdown
Plant operations have returned to normal today following yesterday’s fire at Ravensdown’s Napier Works. The site was handed back from the Fire Service at 7:20pm last night. All staff have returned to work and normal site operations have resumed. “The isolated ... More >>
Massive New Plymouth store to benefit farmers
Tuesday, 12 July 2016, 4:03 pm | Ravensdown
Farmers of the Central and Western North Island are to benefit from a $30 million Ravensdown investment in a new fertiliser storage and blending facility in New Plymouth. More >>
Incident at Ravensdown Hornby plant
Thursday, 16 June 2016, 4:08 pm | Ravensdown
An incident involving an independent contractor happened on site at Ravensdown’s Hornby manufacturing plant in Christchurch today (Thursday 16 June) at 9.30am. The contractor had been undertaking maintenance on a circuit breaker. More >>
Lowest urea price since 2007
Friday, 29 January 2016, 4:40 pm | Ravensdown
Farmers stand to benefit from a $50 per tonne saving for urea from 1st February, when Ravensdown will drop its prices. More >>
N-Protect plus irrigation equals certainty
Tuesday, 5 January 2016, 2:34 pm | Ravensdown
N-Protect plus irrigation equals certainty for the arable farmer If there was a way to guarantee that in the dry Canterbury plains rain would fall at exactly the right time and in the right amount, there’d be no need for a product like Ravensdown’s ... More >>
T-shirt competition launched to celebrate 30yrs
Wednesday, 30 December 2015, 11:07 am | Ravensdown
This year will be Ravensdown’s 30th year sponsoring the FMG Young Farmer of the Year. To celebrate the farmer owned cooperative is launching a national t-shirt competition. Greg Campbell, Ravensdown Chief Executive says the key to any long standing sponsorship ... More >>
Rare sheep conditions unites industry
Thursday, 24 December 2015, 12:27 pm | Ravensdown
Rare sheep conditions unites industry A combination of rare conditions has tormented sheep farmers Hamish, Annabel, Alastair and Sue Craw on their Banks Peninsula farm Longridge Agriculture Ltd for the past 10 years. Since 2004, the Craws have been ... More >>
Ravensdown’s spring super cap worth $1.3 million to farmers
Tuesday, 1 December 2015, 9:15 am | Ravensdown
The difference between the two superphosphate manufacturers’ web-listed price for customers buying super-based products between 1 September and 1 December has meant Ravensdown returned savings of about $1.3 million to its farmers. More >>
