Fertiliser

The farm carries out soil tests in ten paddocks in most years. Soil Phosphorus is high but, on advice, we have recently decided to apply a little anyway. Soil Potassium is slightly low. We have recently started using lime in the low pH paddocks.

Nitrogen is applied after each grazing at a rate of about 350kgN/ha/year. The farm has recently switched to Green Urea that trials indicate is more efficient in warm weather.