After three seasons of using Kiwiguard and Clovertone Plant Food 5-4-11, the average kiwifruit size on Howard Pegden’s orchard has gone up and rejects have reduced from 18% to only 7%. When Howard first used Kiwiguard, he was looking for an effective product for bird control. These days he calls the combination of the two products ‘the full package.’ “We’ve had no major pest problems since 2010,” he confirmed. “Contractors […]
Over the last ten seasons Andy Bailey has used Clovertone Plant Food 5-4-11 on his 80ha farm on the Canterbury Plains. Applied at 10 litres/ha six to eight times each season, Andy puts the plant food in with other sprays to keep production costs down. “Leaf and general plant health are really good throughout the year,” said Andy. “But it’s the way the crop stores that impresses me most. The […]
After four years without applying solid fertiliser on his 88ha dairy farm in Taupiri, Andrew Hayes has just beaten the Waikato average grass production of 11.2 DM/ha by almost 60%. In the 2012-13 season, his dry matter hit 17.7DM/ha with only 30-40N applied. Andrew attributes much of his success to the Clovertone liquid nutrients which he uses instead of a conventional solid fertiliser programme – at around 30% of the […]
