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24 November 2016

Creating safer skies and better sustainability for aerial topdressing

An award winning development in aerial topdressing is making it safer for pilots to navigate one of the world’s most dangerous professions while improving on-farm sustainability.

21 November 2016

Warm, wet and worrying for facial eczema

Above average temperatures and rainfall are ideal conditions for the fungus which causes facial eczema to thrive. Spore production occurs when soil temperatures exceed 12 degrees for three consecutive nights and soil moisture is favourable or air conditions are humid.

16 November 2016

Canterbury Earthquake Update

All Ballance Service Centres and Consignment Stores are operational following Monday’s earthquake. Our people are accounted for and safe. We’re thinking of those who have been affected by the earthquake.

26 October 2016

Uncertain future for RPR

Political, economic and social instability in South America and North Africa is making it increasingly difficult for New Zealand farmers to get their hands on in-spec reactive phosphate rock (RPR).

17 October 2016

Fast track fertiliser from new Ballance Huntly store

Safety, efficiency and sustainability are the key features of our new Huntly Service Centre, which promises to deliver faster service, better access and close-to-home convenience for local customers.

12 October 2016

Making a career in New Zealand's economic backbone

On any given day you’ll find Scott Cameron advising his clients on matters of finance, sustainability, human resources, pasture management and more, with no two workdays being the same.

28 September 2016

Winning customer service acknowledged

Our Ballance contact centre has been acknowledged for their winning customer service, receiving an award for the best contact centre in the Retail Support Service industry.

19 September 2016

Stopping the rain from washing away dairy farmers’ profits

Dairy farmers who have been experiencing wet weather could be facing unexpected soil nutrient loss due to a common misconception about how urea fertiliser behaves when soils are moist from previous rainfall events.

15 September 2016

From fert to food and back again

Jamie Blennerhassett has returned to his scientific roots, bringing with him commercial acumen honed at the helm of Nosh, to lead our innovation team at Ballance.

08 September 2016

Soil scholar searching for hill country answers

An innate curiosity for ‘why things happen’ made Lincoln University PhD candidate Amy Whitley a natural fit for scientific research. Now she’s using that curiosity to improve New Zealand’s soils and raise the productivity of low fertility land in hill and high country areas.

05 September 2016

Ballance scholarships open door to bright futures in agribusiness

The Ballance scholarship programme is opening the door to our country’s best and brightest, offering a financial boost to students who want to help shape the future of one of New Zealand’s most important and profitable sectors.

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