Regulation, Soil Health, Sustainability
Regenerative agriculture is a term that is slowly gaining a level of acceptance in the New Zealand agricultural sector. For many years the term and its principles have been scorned in some corners. We are now seeing an increasing uptake by farmers utilising many of...
Management, Productivity, Soil Health, Sustainability
“Soil is essential for the maintenance of biodiversity above and below ground. The wealth of biodiversity below ground is vast and unappreciated: millions of microorganisms live and reproduce in a few grams of topsoil, an ecosystem essential for life on...
Customer Stories, Field Outcomes, Soil Health, Sustainability
If you need something done, ask a busy person. We met up with Sam Clearwater and I think it is fair to say that this expression embodies the work ethic of Clearwater Contracting quite well. Sam runs a fertiliser application contracting business out of his base...
Education, Regulation, Soil Health, Sustainability
Time and time again we are being told that our farming system is broken – that we will not be able to sustain the amount of food we are producing to meet the demands of our growing population. Media coverage of carbon emissions and the degradation of our water...
All, Animal Health, Productivity, Regulation, Soil Health, Sustainability
In Part 1 of this series I gave you a high level understanding of amino acids, their extraction and uses in agriculture. In this Part 2 of the series, we will cover the importance of amino acids to plants and the benefits of amino acids to land management practices...
All, Animal Health, Productivity, Regulation, Soil Health, Sustainability
Amino acids, often referred to as the building blocks of proteins, are compounds that play many critical roles in the health of all living things. They are the essential compounds for life and as such are needed for vital processes like the building of proteins and...
