THE FERTILISER REVIEW

Welcome to the home of our twice yearly publication, The Fertiliser Review. Here you can find back editions sorted by date, and by topic. Enjoy!

Fertiliser Review No.46

Published: 13 Oct 2022

  • Regenerative Agriculture - The First Shots Have Been Fired
  • White Clover - Welcome Back?
  • Pasture Visual Assessment (PVA)
  • Fertiliser Costs
  • Trends in Fertiliser Costs
  • Turning the Sods
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Fertiliser Review No.44

Published: 1 Mar 2021

  • Regenerative Agriculture - Revisited
  • The Soil Fertility Status of NZ Soils
  • The Missing Link?
  • RPRS Rear Their Ugly Head - Again!
  • Biohelp
  • Tow And Fert
  • Albrecht-Kinsey Soil Testing Put To The Sword Again
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Fertiliser Review No.40

Published: 1 Sep 2018

  • Smart Products or Good Marketing
  • Regenerative Agriculture
  • Fine Particle Application (FPA) Fertilisers
  • Urea and SustaiN Decreases Pasture Production?
  • Lime
  • Soil Acidification: A Sustainability Issue for High Country?
  • When is an Experiment not an Experiment?
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Fertiliser Review No.30

Published: 1 Mar 2013

  • Sustainability – how does this apply to agriculture?
  • Water Quality – some questions you should ask your Regional Council
  • Is the climate changing?
  • Sustainable Nitrogen Fertilisers
  • Is Nitrogen a pollutant?
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Fertiliser Review No.29

Published: 1 Sep 2012

  • Agrisea
  • All Paddock Testing – Chasing Tales
  • Humates, Fulvates and Soil Organic Matter
  • Introducing Dr Robert McBride, Soil Phosphorus Retention
  • Case Study: Abron Farm Consultants
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Fertiliser Review No.27

Published: 1 Sep 2011

  • Potassium: A forgotten Nutrient?
  • All Paddock Soil Testing – an analysis of the process and it’s merits
  • All about Abron
  • Pasture Persistence: a soil fertility problem?
  • Professional incompetence or poor training?
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Fertiliser Review No.26

Published: 1 Mar 2011

  • Bas Saturation Ratios – Why they are Nonsense!
  • Nutrient Quality or Nutrient Ratios?
  • Defining Soil PH
  • Measuring CEC
  • The Quantity Theory
  • Balanced Nutrition
  • Hill Laboratories Again
  • Climate Change and ETS
  • The Price of Independence
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Fertiliser Review No.25

Published: 1 Sep 2010

  • The Organic Movement: New Products Old Stories Same Nonsense
  • Open Letter to Hill Laboratories
  • Your Questions Answered
  • Organic Foods: Are they Better?
  • The New Zealand Soil Carbon Conference
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Fertiliser Review No.23

Published: 1 Sep 2009

  • SustaiN – contemptible advertising
  • The Brix Test – what does it mean?
  • Pasture is King & Clover is Queen – the principles of effitient pastoral farming
  • Price Watch
  • How to Read your Soil Test Reports
  • Soil Testing – leave it to the experts
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Fertiliser Review No.22

Published: 1 Mar 2009

  • Sustain versus Urea
  • Fertiliser Co-ops: Who do they serve?
  • Poos and wees: how much and were does it go?
  • ProGibb
  • Nutrient Budgets: interprete with caution
  • Elemental Sulphur: Our recent experience
  • Price Watch
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Fertiliser Review No.19

Published: 1 Oct 2007

  • Has you pasture got the pox? Nutrient deficiencies
  • The Organic Movement – its origins
  • Can you have you cake and eat it? Environmental good news
  • What were they thinking? – a liquid fertiliser story
  • A question for the co-operatives? Di-calcic superphosphate
  • Price Watch – P fertilisers
  • Farmers, fertilisers and anecdotal evidence
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Fertiliser Review No.9

Published: 1 Aug 2002

  • Efficient fertiliser use
  • Nutrient budgeting
  • Managing nutrient runoff
  • What is the optimal Olsen P?
  • Liquid fertilisers – again?
  • Product and services to avoid
  • Price watch
  • Phosphate rock reserves
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Fertiliser Review No.8

Published: 1 Mar 2002

  • Transport and spreading costs
  • Biophos – organic but!
  • The Resin P test: Science and intrigue
  • Soil fertiliser trends: are we sustainable?
  • Soil inoculants, bio-stimulants and activators
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Fertiliser Review No.6

Published: 1 Mar 2001

  • Lime Hill Country – is it economic?
  • Flea clover, Flea! A nitrogen dilemma
  • Why soils become acid
  • Script Fertiliser and FERTMARK
  • Scientific v observational trials
  • Magnesium revisited
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Fertiliser Review No.5

Published: 1 Oct 2000

  • Nitrogen fertilisers: a need for caution?
  • Soil acidification due to fertilisers.
  • Plant nutrient ratios: what do they mean?
  • Mainland Minerals: be aware!
  • Fluid Fertilisers Ltd
  • Sodium fertiliser: an update.
  • Price watch: Magnesium fertilisers.
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