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2009 Westpac Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Awards |
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 BioAg Ltd was announced as a finalist of the 2009 Westpac Hawke’s Bay Chamber of Commerce Business Awards in the 3R Excellence in Sustainable Business category.
Rick Cranswick, the award’s chief judge, said finalists in this year’s Business Awards represent an extremely high standard of innovation, organisation and business success for the Hawke’s Bay region.
Winners of the ten categories will be announced at the Business Awards gala dinner at the Hawke’s Bay Opera House in Hastings on Thursday October 29. |
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Young farmers missed at Soil Conference |
 The New Zealand Soil Carbon Conference in Napier last month attracted over 120 delegates from New Zealand and the Pacific, including Rarotonga’s Associate Minister for Agriculture, but the top flight international programme failed to attract the younger members of the New Zealand farming sector.
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 “So simple. So easy!”
Jonty Wall has been using BioAg on ‘Riverside’, a 640Ha rolling hill country property in the Ponatahi Valley, Wairarapa, for just over a year. Having made the decision to farm biologically Jonty has been pleasantly surprised at the progress made in such a short time. “I started out with a 3 to 5 year timeframe in mind. I find it hard to believe how much progress we’ve made so quickly and I’m really looking forward to seeing where we’ll get to in the next few years”.
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– your volunteer workforce
Adequate humus (from 3 – 10%) gives soil a loose crumbly texture which serves as a storehouse of plant nutrients. Humus is produced by beneficial soil organisms (bacteria, actinomycetes, fungi, and worms), decomposing plant and / or animal organic matter into colloidal (very small particle size) material.
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Bill Hunt, Ratanui Farm, Otaki, has been back on the family farm for over 40 years.
Bill has always been a ‘low chemical input’ farmer preferring to follow nature rather than read labels on bottles and bags to find answers to profitable dairying.
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The boys at BioAg asked me to pass on my experiences with their product “RumiMate”.
I have been using the product for 9 months on my performance and breaker horses and I noticed changes with them within the first 3-4 weeks.
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 In New Zealand we have 171 native worm species and 23 non-native species. Earthworms and compost worms process soil and organic matter but are actually sustained mainly by the consumption of bacteria. In 24 hours a worm processes the equivalent of its own bodyweight of soil. The castings are largely colloidal soluble humus – at least five times richer in plant available nutrients than surrounding soil.
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BioAg liquid biologicals feed organisms in the soil and they multiply extremely rapidly - this frantic breeding produces heat. The top few centimetres of biologically active soils can be 2-3 degrees Celcius warmer than similar soil low in biological life. Think of the influence that this added warmth created by active biology could have on pasture and plant growth, as well as lessening the impact of frost severity and devastation. |
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Following extensive Australian trials, BioAg’s new effluent treatment, Digest-it for Dairies, is now proving itself in NZ. Hardly surprising – as one of the research team put it - “pooh is pooh”. Digest-it for Dairies has been developed to digest dairy effluent sludge by promoting aerobic bacterial metabolism thereby stimulating microbial breakdown of organic matter.
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Mystery Creek Field Days $5000 Trial Product draw |
Congratulations Adrian Frei of Riversdale, Southland who has won $5000 worth of BioAg products!
Our thanks to all those who entered the competition. |
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