Ballance Agri Nutrients’ farm environment planning tool MitAgator last month won the Smart Farming Award at the South Island Agricultural Field Days at Kirwee.

Anti-farming lobby Greenpeace has been ordered to take down billboards it had erected around the country accusing fertiliser companies Ballance and Ravensdown of polluting rivers.

Farmers and growers are being encouraged to enter this year’s Ballance Farm Environment Awards. 

Farmers and growers are being encouraged to enter the Ballance Farm Environment Awards for 2018-19. 

Two Ballance Agri-Nutrients farmer-elected directors are stepping down this year.

Shareholders of farm nutrient supplier Ballance Agri-Nutrients will pocket an average rebate of $4,500 this Friday.

Ballance chief executive Mark Wynne says criticism of the nutrient management tool Overseer is “very old-school”.

Fertiliser co-op Ballance will commercially launch a new farm environment planning tool, MitAgator, by spring.

Nutrient management platform MyBallance brings the same benefits to nutrient management that EFTPOS brought to money management.

Entering the Ballance Farm Environment Awards was always the plan for Eric Jacomb, a founding partner of Medbury Farm Ltd, winner of the Canterbury Supreme Award.