Good food comes from healthy balanced soils and our job at Fertilizer New Zealand is to give you good solid advice on how to achieve […]
John Barnes
We can do better and save money too Farmers in Europe are required to live with increasingly restrictive tolerances for fertiliser applications. They have new […]
August 2017
Our Time has Come At long last farmers are beginning to see the benefits of looking at different ways of getting essential nutrients to their […]
July 2017
I was encouraged by the attendance at Mystery Creek this year. Farmers have been under financial pressure for far too long. The people who work […]
June 2017
Money is Essential It is all very well for people to talk about farming in terms of lifestyle and it is a fact that farmers […]
April 2017
Like all farmers and farm suppliers I am feeling a lot happier with the projected milk price predictions from Fonterra which are now at $6.50 […]
December 2016
Recently I was walking through the grounds of an agricultural field day. It had been raining and so it was difficult to walk around. But […]
May 2017
There two elements that are vital to all life; calcium and carbon. Both are equally important, so I want to look at both and see […]
March 2017
Maybe we should stop and listen The farming sustainability argument rages on with accusations of dirty streams and rivers from environmental groups including Greenpeace and […]
February 2017
Droughts, Floods, Earthquakes, Governments and Farming I don’t know which one of these is the worst but I know that many of you might be […]
January 2017
Kaikoura As I put this newsletter together I am mindful of the hardship the rural community is under now. I have spent all my life […]
November 2016
Farming for Profit The more I talk to farmers the more I treasure our efficient and world leading grass fed farming methods. We often have […]
October 2016
Looking Towards The Future Sourcing fertiliser sometimes means I am required to visit Europe to look at product and assess its worthiness for our farming […]
September 2016
Prices and Productivity The low prices continue for dairy, beef is okay and lamb and wool are not that flash. Rather than a little blip, […]
August 2016
A Fair Go for Farmers For years now we have been talking about added value products and capturing the margins up the chain to the […]
July 2016
According to a recent news article staff morale at Invermay has hit rock bottom since the announcement that jobs there would be slashed as people were moved to Lincoln.
June 2016
viewpoint May 2016 with John Barnes – Managing Director May 2016 Where is the Dialogue? As I travel around the country and as our Reps bring in their […]
May 2016
Amazing to see a full front page article on the concerns regarding the effects of cadmium in popular fishing magazine Fishing and Outdoors.
April 2016
The growing population of our planet all need to be fed. It is increasingly apparent to me that as the world’s population grows there will also
March 2016
viewpoint February 2016 with John Barnes – Managing Director February 2016 February Feast Rain has arrived on a “just in time” basis so far this […]