NZ Dairy Spring 2021

| 57 nz dairy DAIRY PEOPLE » Scott & Susan Narbey Bella Narbey with this year’s Ag-Day calf named ‘Portia’, after Kiwi rugby star Portia Woodman. Ollie Narbey sets traps in the native covenanted bush on farm. New Zealand farmers realise there is a need for change - changes that are bene icial for our land, our crops and our animals. Penergetic’s agricultural products are designed to provide a safe and e ective pathway to transition towards a natural, more sustainable approach. The Penergetic range of products cover six areas of application as our product wheel indicates, each with their own speci ic bene its. Individual products bene icial to the dairy sector include: Soil, Plant (pasture), Liquid Manure, Animal, and the Water products. Our Compost product is also applicable for arable farming. The Soil and the Plant products work synergistically by rebalancing the soil, increasing the nutrient-availability, promoting humus formation, improving soil structures and providing more drought tolerance, and producing healthier and more pest and disease-resistant pastures. This is achieved by stimulating soil microbiology, accelerating the break-down of crop residues, and optimising plant chlorophyl and photosynthesis production. The application of these two products can progressively reduce dependence on synthetic fertilisers. Penergetic’s Liquid Manure product stimulates the aerobic decomposition of liquid manure, producing a more homogenous e luent mix with improved biological quality, making it a more valuable, easier to apply fertiliser that is less aggressive on pastures, and further reason to cut back on purchased-in fertilisers. Penergetic Animal-products range improves feed conversion, strengthening the animal’s immune and digestive systems. This strengthened immunity can help reduce New tools to facilitate change! bacterial diarrhea and somatic cell counts, and often leads to increased milk output. The AquaKat is a water-treatment device that will vitalise water and restructure large clusters of water molecules into smaller crystalline formations that can carry more bene icial nutrients, and the water becomes more easily assimilated into biological cells. Additives dissolve better in this structured water, resulting in a reduced quantity needed for the same impact. Public pressure for cleaner waterways is relentless. The current nitrogen cap will inevitably come under more scrutiny. Penergetic’s healthy, sustainable products will become more essential, according to Penergetic New Zealand business owner Stuart Chaney, who took up the Penergetic distribution rights for New Zealand in mid 2020. “Our mission is to provide our agricultural community with new tools to transition towards economically viable, sustainable inputs, by stimulating natural processes, bene iting farmers, consumers, and our communities”, he explains. “Immediately chemical inputs are reduced you start the process of naturally rebuilding the soil and improving water quality. Nature will get us back there if we give it enough time; Penergetic works in harmony with nature, taking into-account the agricultural eco-system, to speed up this transition. Penergetic development started in 1979, with products commercialised and distributed under the Penergetic brand from 2001. The Swiss-based company now successfully exports to 40 countries globally. For more information about these products please contact Penergetic New Zealand Limited. 0210 258 3325 admin@penergetic.co.nz www.penergetic.co.nz