Dec 3, 2018 | Articles, Featured Article
By P.W. Burton At a recently held farmer information day on the coming changes to soil fertility programmes, soil tests from a highly productive intensively farmed pastoral property were presented. The tests were taken prior to the introduction of a biologically based...
Jul 2, 2018 | Featured Article
Download this article as a PDF As we see it, pastoral farming in this country is at a crossroads, with the path ahead uncharted territory. Environmental considerations will be at the forefront of soon to be implemented regulations, and as with all major change, it’s...
Feb 21, 2018 | Featured Article
By Tom Philpott Download this article as a PDF Just precisely what does all of that nitrogen fertilizer do to the soil? “Fertilizer is good for the father and bad for the sons.” –Dutch saying For all of its ecological baggage, synthetic nitrogen does one good deed for...
