A new wintering checklist and winter grazing plans designed to help farmers make practical written plans for winter are now available from industry good bodies DairyNZ, Beef + Lamb New Zealand and Federated Farmers. dairynz.co.nz/news/farmers-e…

🌱🔆 Starting to plan your seasonal N use? My Pasture Planner is a tool available for all farmers, using the total N test to determine N response across farm. This helps you get more DM from your N use. Ask for a total N test as part of your usual pastoral soil testing!

Anyone interested in catch-crop strategies for reducing environmental impacts (namely N-losses) ex-maize grain / silage; a great field day coming up updating on some current research we are involved in through an SFF. See below and feel free to come along! #maize #covercrops

Be sure to see us at the Ballance Agri-Nutrients tent to get up to date with our latest innovations at Fieldays! As always, we have five new delicious flavours of pies 🥧

Some great yarns by Al Brown at the Ballance Agri-Nutrients tent with NZ Farm Environment this evening. Love his passion for all things Kiwi especially "the flavour volume" our farmers produce Tracy Brown Melissa Slattery Ballance Science Extension Andrew Hoggard Colin Hurst Federated Farmers OVERSEER Limited 🧢

Yesterday afternoon we hosted an event for our key clients and stakeholders. Thanks to everyone who came along. Ministry for Primary Industries AgResearch KiwiNet Callaghan Innovation NZ Apples and Pears Zespri International Ballance Agri-Nutrients @RavensdownNZ

Great day yacking in the Waikato sun about #catchcrops & what we can be doing to capture as much Nitrogen as possible ex-Maize over winter #pioneer #sff Foundation for Arable Research (NZ) Plant & Food Research Barenbrug NZ Ballance Science Extension #nitrogen #maize

“We need to encourage more mavericks to test smart ideas.” Rural professionals & farmers are invited to team up to apply for up to $75,000 funding via our Rural Professionals Fund, to test ideas that could create new ways of doing things. ourlandandwater.nz/news/maverick-…

Save the date - not long until our 50th Anniversary Symposium! Thanks to our sponsor family Lincoln University Ballance Agri-Nutrients PGG Wrightson Seeds Agricom NZ AsureQuality Foundation for Arable Research (NZ) Carrfields Environment Canterbury Hill Laboratories and FarmSource There are still spaces to join our sponsorship!

Proud to take home the Innovation and Collaboration award at PINZ for our Green Hydrogen project at Kapuni with Hiringa Energy 👏🏼 Ballance Agri-Nutrients

Also a win for the Surfing for Farmers team. A grassroots initiative by farmers to improve farmer wellbeing off the farm. Very proud! 🏄‍♂️ Ballance Agri-Nutrients #PINZ2021

And we can’t forget Angus Dowson from our very own Science Extension team who was nominated as a finalist for the emerging leader at #PINZ2021 👏🏼🥑🌱

Massive effort by the team last week to get these sediment plots installed in Canterbury. Check out the video Shane Maley did, explaining how it all works. Southland up next, then West Coast. Ministry for Primary Industries project, ‘Catch Crops for Cleaner Freshwater’ Plant & Food Research AgResearch

We’re pleased to announce strong annual results for the 2021 financial year, and an increased customer rebate of $50 per tonne returning $60.2m to our shareholders. Read more on our website: ballance.co.nz/rebate2021

We can’t wait to have you back in the team Aimee Dawson 👏🏼

A lovely day to #soilyoursinglet in the Bay of Plenty today. Our team are busy trying to find out who has the healthiest soils in the country by burying these cotton singlets and monitoring how long they take to break down 👕 have you ‘planted’ yours yet? 🌱

☘️ Some valuable clover insights for the upcoming Spring ☘️ if you have any questions- fire them our way!

🌱💦♻️ 2021 is the first year that the Ballance Agri-Nutrients Farm Environment Awards have a Catchment Group Award. Nominate your local catchment group to recognise their commitment to on farm stewardship. Apply here: nzfeawards.org.nz/apply-now/

Our technical arable group are in the know about growth staging cereals! Getting that Spring N on 🌾

Check out what happens to a cotton singlet buried for 5 months in prime dairy farm soil in the Bay of Plenty! 👕 - a great visual indicator of the thriving communities of microbes in our farming soils 🐜🐞🪱 Ballance Science Extension DairyNZ Fonterra