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13 Sep What Is Biochar and How Does It Work in NZ Soil?
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Biochar is a highly porous form of charcoal made by heating wood with very little oxygen, and it works by giving soil (and gut) microbes somewhere to live while holding onto water and nutrients that would otherwise wash straight through. Southland Carbon makes it from New Zealand wood biomass at Pukerau, and the same process that produces the bioc..
28 May Foliar Fertilisation in NZ: When It Works, When It Doesn't, and How to Get It Right
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Foliar fertilisation means spraying dissolved nutrients directly onto plant leaves, where they're absorbed through the leaf surface and bypass the soil entirely. It's most useful for correcting mid-season deficiencies quickly, delivering micronutrients that soil chemistry is locking up, and supporting plants at critical growth stages when you can..
09 Mar Fulvic Acid Explained: How Fulvex 9500 Unlocks Nutrients Plants Can Actually Use
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Fulvic Acid Explained: How Fulvex 9500 Unlocks Nutrients Plants Can Actually Use Category: Soil Health Quick answer: Fulvic acid helps plants access nutrients that may already exist in the soil but are chemically locked up and unavailable. Fulvex 9500 is a highly concentrated 95% pure fulvic acid that works as a natural chelator, binding minera..
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26 Oct Farm Chemical Compliance NZ: What WorkSafe Is Finding in Farm Sheds
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Every NZ farm that uses hazardous substances needs an up-to-date chemical inventory and a current safety data sheet (SDS) for each product, kept where workers and emergency services can get to them. When WorkSafe checked 680 sheep, beef and dairy farms in late 2025, missing SDSs and inventories were behind 94% of the improvement notices issued. B..
08 Oct How to Choose the Right Wetter for Herbicide Spraying NZ
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A wetter helps spray droplets spread across a leaf and stay there, instead of beading up and rolling off before the herbicide gets in. Use a non-ionic wetter for everyday spraying, and step up to an organosilicone wetter for waxy, hairy, dusty or stressed weeds. Always check the herbicide label first, because it tells you whether a wetter is need..
30 Sep How to Trap Wasp Queens in Spring NZ
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Spring is the only time of year a wasp queen is on her own. She's out of hibernation, building a small nest by herself and feeding her first larvae with no workers to back her up. Catch her now and that nest never forms, which means no colony of thousands and no new queens next autumn. ✓Queens are active from early spring, roughly September to..