22 September 2021
A new soil test option for measuring potentially mineralisable nitrogen (PMN) is making it easier for arable farmers to keep tabs on the amount of plant available N in their soils for crop growth.
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While nitrogen is commonly applied to boost pasture growth, the naturally occurring plant hormone gibberellic acid can also provide strong pasture growth benefits.
Read article21 October 2019
In New Zealand’s soils, phosphorus does a great job at growing plants but unfortunately it does the same thing if it makes it into our water. Once this dissolved phosphate is in surface water, it assists in growing the wrong plants such as oxygen-depleting algae that starve other organisms.
Read article28 March 2019
A system that kills the E. coli and other bacteria in farm dairy effluent has taken first prize in the South Island Agricultural Field Days’ Agri Innovation Awards.
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