Dear Nutritech customer, We have some exciting changes with our team in the South Island we wanted to share with you. After six incredible years as an Area Manager in Canterbury/North Otago for Nutritech Catherine Sharpin is taking up a new role as our Forage Business Development Manager – South Island. In this position, Catherine […]
We have a change of guard taking place in the Bay of Plenty. After twenty years of loyal service to Nutritech, Stu Lister will retire at the end of January. Over the years, Stu has given so much to his role, the customers and the BOP / South Waikato area. When asked what he has […]
Did you know MAGNIVA® Platinum can also be a good inoculant choice for wholecrop cereal silage, grass silage and lucerne silage too? In the past many inoculant suppliers have talked about a “grass inoculant” and a “maize inoculant”, however this does not acknowledge the specific challenge that is occurring with each silage crop. […]
Developed thanks to a specific research and development program – to help drive growth rates, feed conversion efficiency and reduce mortality in broilers, OPTIWALL® offers balanced and guaranteed levels of mannan oligosaccharides (MOS) and β-glucans from batch to batch. OPTIWALL® is a feed material (EU Regulation 68/2013) that can be used to support the […]
Making high-performance cereal silage Cereals provide tremendous flexibility for silage makers – they can be sown in autumn or spring and can be harvested at a range of growth stages from chopping green at the boot stage (before seed head emergence) to cutting whole crop cereals at the cheesy dough stage (when the cereal grain […]
Save more of your quality feed with SiloStop® The original easy to seal stack management system “Switching to SiloStop® has been one of the best decisions we’ve made for our silage and peace of mind”. Says Ray and Jen Wiegersma. “Before we invested in SiloStop®, we dreaded covering the stacks, especially when it meant […]
It is that time of year again, when our pastures go reproductive, and the temperature / humidity starts to climb. Here are some things to consider as we head into summer: Fibrous feed We all know what happens once that pasture gets fibrous – feed intake drops and production goes with it. Aside from […]
Nutritech Area manager Steph Paul and her husband Alister Paul who manages “Marydale” (the beef fattening unit for Beaumont Station) receives the Silver Fern Farms Plate to Pasture Beef supplier award for the Lower South Island. Congratulations you guys – P.S you both scrub up well!
Lameness is now widely considered one of the top three health issues on the farm, costing the industry millions of dollars every year. To give our team a greater insight into some of the causes of lameness, we invited Fred Hoekstra to deliver a presentation on lameness at our recent National conference. Our team found […]
