Free Workshop Offers Savings

Environment Waikato is inviting farmers to a free workshop that could save them hundreds of dollars on fertiliser costs every year.

The workshop will discuss results from trials that have proven healthy maize crops can be grown in effluent blocks without any commercial fertiliser.

The trials, involving Environment Waikato, the Foundation for Arable Research, DairyNZ, Pioneer and Crop and Food Research, have also shown maize crops can improve environmental performance by mining nutrients from high-fertility soils.

Farmers involved with the trials will be at the workshop at Gails of Tamahere at 1pm this Thursday.

For details, contact Mike Parker at the Foundation for Arable Research on 021 960 078, Frank Portegys at DairyNZ on (07) 858 3779 or Ian Williams at Pioneer on 0274 950 789.

Following the maize effluent workshop, the Foundation for Arable Research Winter Results Roadshow will be held at 2.30pm at the same venue.

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