Fertiliser system

Abron fertiliser system

“Abron have provided me with practical solutions to managing soil health and improving overall farm performance. We are seeing measurable gains each year on-farm without increasing farm fertiliser spend. Abron are a keymember of our ‘Farm Business Team’.”
Bruce Wilton, Waikato

Fertiliser

Calci-Life/Calci-Life Phosphate

Customised, composted Lime/RPR blends
Magnesium and trace minerals
Improves soil health
Encourages and stimulates biological activity

BIO N

Dissolved urea additive
Improves nitrogen efficiency
Contains humic and fulvic acid

Soluble Humic Acid Granules

Improve efficiency of soluble fertilisers
Soil conditioning product
Promote development of good soil structure
Stimulate biological activity

Future Proofing

Building Resilience

Improved pasture production in all weather extremes
Better pasture quality through soil improvement
Drought tolerance

Environmental Compliance

Help maintain productivity in a regulatory environment
Reduce risk
Create sustainable farming systems

Creating Future Value

Taking future opportunities driven by consumer demand
Making your produce more desirable
Providing more options for innovative farmers

Monitoring

Visual Soil Assessment (VSA)

Soil texture and structure
Rooting depth
Earthworm numbers
Clover % and health of nodules
Soil smell
Thatch

Soil Testing
Herbage Testing
Annual OVERSEER® Nutrient Budget
Farm Environment Plans

“We chose Abron out of a host of fertiliser suppliers because they had a simple and effective, well-recorded fertiliser regime”

Willy Leferink, Canterbury

The Abron 6-step system
to building resilience into your farm

Initial visit Farm discovery day

To gain an in-depth understanding of your farming operation including soil and herbage tests and a visual soil and pasture assessment.

Prepare a farm nutrition plan

You’ll receive a comprehensive report that details soil fertility, soil health, and provides recommendations for optimal production of nutrient-dense pasture and crops.

Apply appropriate amounts of the foundation minerals N, P, K, S, Mg, Ca and Na

To correct nutrient deficiencies and maintain soil fertility for optimal production of nutrient-dense pasture and crops.

Supply trace elements

Supplied in plant-available forms and an important aspect of building healthy
soil with optimal production potential.

Stimulate biological activity and build humus

Enhancing your microbial workforce is key to unlocking your soils potential.

Monitor and fine tune

Abron Soil Nutrition Consultants use proven testing procedures to measure
progress, adjusting your programme according to results achieved on your farm.

It is important to ensure that the plant has the correct balance of macro and micro nutrients to support not only optimal dry matter production but quality pasture production too.

Maximising the chemical, physical, and biological attributes of the soil results in optimal mineral uptake into the plant. Many treat the soil as little more than a medium to hold plant roots and it is this lack of understanding that has led to increasingly inefficient and expensive fertiliser practices. Understanding how your soil functions and what gains can be made from capitalising on natural processes in the soil will lead to greater outputs from fertiliser inputs. The first step required for efficient management of our soil resource is to complete soil tests. Soil tests are used to determine the quantity or relative concentrations of nutrients. We use this information to correct nutrient deficiencies and maintain soil fertility for optimum production. An Abron fertiliser programme will provide the sufficient macro nutrients – nitrogen, phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, magnesium, calcium and sodium.

The foundation minerals and trace elements

Calcium

Should be the most dominant cation in the soil
Considered the trucker of all minerals
Involved in many mineral relationships in the soil
Improves soil structure, plant health, root development and enhances microbial activity

Magnesium

Is essential for photosynthesis and energy transfer in the plant

Potassium

Involved in the uptake of other soluble nutrients (eg. N and the other cations)
Involved in the regulation of around 50 enzymes in a plant
Facilitates the movement of sugar and starches
Important in sizing up fruit and grain

Phosphorus

Essential for root and shoot growth, pollination and seed formation
Plays a vital part in photosynthesis
Plant available P is often the pasture production limiting factor

Nitrogen

Used by plants to synthesise amino acids which in turn form proteins
Vital component in chlorophyll, which is required for photosynthesis

Sulphur

Essential component for the formation of true proteins, and of vitamins and chlorophyll
Availability for maximum pasture production is often an issue in colder months

Sodium

Involved in osmotic (water movement) and ionic balance in plants

Addition of trace elements in a plant available form is also an important component in building an efficient, mineralised soil.

Boron

Required for the uptake and efficient use of calcium in the plant
Essential for cell division and development of the roots and shoots
Affects pollination and promotes flowering
Required for the movement of sugars within the plant

Cobalt

Essential catalyst for nitrogen fixation in legumes
Required for synthesis of vitamin b12 in animals
Important for fertility in stock

Copper

Plays an essential role in chlorophyll production, proteins, sugar synthesis and root metabolism

Selenium

Deficiency can depress conception rates, lamb and calf survival and growth rates

Manganese

Critical for seed germination
Important for nitrogen metabolism

Zinc

Essential for phosphorus uptake
Regulates plant sugar levels
Critical for the uptake of moisture

Molybdenum

Essential for the rhizobia bacteria on legumes
Required for efficient nitrogen fixation

Your soil is the engine of your farm

Your soil is the engine of your farm. It powers your farm through pasture and animal production. The microbe work force that surrounds the roots maintains the engine and ensures peak performance. Under-performing soil running at say, 50% of its potential, uses a lot of fuel (fertiliser) and under-delivers on its potential horse power.

Above ground is the sugar factory. Plants use the energy from sunlight plus CO2 from the air and nutrition from below ground to produce sugar through the process of photosynthesis.

Below ground is the engine powering the sugar factory. If it is operating below its potential, then output from the sugar factory will be down.

“For starters, our input costs have dropped dramatically. We completely stopped applying nitrogen four years ago and there has been no negative change to pasture growth – we know this as we monitor closely using FARMAX on a monthly basis.”

Andrew Russell, Tuna Nui Station

What key performance indicators would we see with the engine running at 50%