…Updated 1 Jan 2017 What is Global Sustainable Farming Ltd? Global Sustainable Farming Ltd is the supplier of ONEsystem ®, a new technology system for optimising fertiliser nutrient efficiency, at little extra cost per kg nutrient applied. This substantially reduces both farm expenditure and nutrient loss to the environment….
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Reducing P Losses to the Environment – Why is the cheapest, easiest and most Farmer-practical method being ignored?
…and reduce losses to the environment.” He says instead we see tens of millions of dollars being spent on irrelevant promotion-based developments like AgHub, and looking at different plants to see if one can recover 5% more N than the other. “Talk about fiddling while Rome burns!” he says. A…
Dairy Farming, Fonterra and the Environment
…Last week’s damning report on the environment might, might, just be the wake-up call the NZ dairy industry in general, and Fonterra in particular, needs. The days of resting on the laurels of the effective ‘fencing off waterways’ campaign are gone. Nitrate leaching and nitrous oxide greenhouse gas emissions…
Improving Fertiliser Efficiency on Peat
…or changes to existing drains, requires consent from Environment Waikato, because of flow-on effects on other land-users and the environment. Developed peat typically has a bulk density of 0.5 tonnes/cubic meter. Even the best-managed peats are shrinking – that is, the ground level is dropping – about 2cm per year….
The Launch of Group ONE Consultancy
…of isotopes of nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen to trace with great precision the fate of these nutrients in agriculture and the environment. Back together in NZ, the two men quickly found they enjoyed working together as much as always, and decided to set up an international consultancy company Group…
Quin Environmentals (NZ) Ltd
Quin Environmentals (Pty) Ltd
…was a Quin Environmentals project (Australia and New Zealand) Reducing P Losses to the Environment – Why is the cheapest, easiest and most Farmer-practical method being ignored? The duopoly fertiliser industry structure in New Zealand is probably well past its use-by date, according to independent scientist, inventor and entrepenuer Dr…
Group ONE HOMEPAGE
…the environment. This was broadened in 2014 to include information on new technologies being developed to improve nutrient recycling and therefore both increase farm productivity and profitability, while reducing losses to the environment. With some of these key new technologies reaching the stage of commercialisation, it was decided to reorganise…
The importance of choice
…ongoing mission to ensure that their shareholders and their environment continue to benefit from the very best research and development in fertiliser efficiency and cost-effectiveness. This has become a cruel joke. Longer-term readers of www.groupone.co.nz will remember a view we expressed on the launch of the original website in 2011….
Observations on the 2016 International Groundwater Conference,
San Francisco 28-30 June 2016, by Dr Bert Quin
…Regional Councils), but reserves the right for the State to take over if things turn to custard. In fact, similar to what happened with Environment Canterbury a few years ago, when the government appointed temporary Commissioners. An interesting point of difference between New Zealand and California is that while our…
Gibberelic Acid – Silver Bullet for Dairying?
…in a natural environment with no irrigation to avoid the risk of drought, so they have inbuilt self-preservation lag mechanisms. Foliar application of GA probably short-circuits this lag time. Surely a Better Option than Palm Kernel For pastoral farmers with irrigation or reasonably reliable rainfall, which means all dairy farms…
