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• CANEGROWERS chemical buying service
• Ravensdown fertiliser OFFER EXTENDED TO 21 MAY 2010
  
• Ravensdown soil testing

Chemical buying service

Contact the CANECARD team on 1800 177 159 for more information or to place an order.
 

Herbicides Ametryn  -  20 litre 24D Amine 625  -  20 litre 24D Ester  -  20 litre Diuron 500 Flowable  -  20 litre Diuron 900 WDG  -  15 kilo Atrazine 500 Flowable  -  20 litre Atrazine 900 WDG  -  15 kilo MCPA 500  -  20 litre MSMA 800  -  20 litre Paraquat 250  -  20 litre Asulam Rattler  -  20 litre Pendimethalin  -  20 litre Trifluralin 480  -  20 litre Glyphosate 360  -  20 litre Glyphosate 450 (CT)  -  20 litre Active Oil  -  20 litre Wetter 600  -  20 litre Wetter 1000  -  20 litre Confidor Nutcracker

Insecticides Chlorpyrifos 500EC  -  20 litre Allfire Bisect 100  -  20 litre  Fungicide Propiconazole  -  5 litre Fertilisers Ammonium Sulphate  -  25 tonne Urea

 

 

Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia - OFFER EXTENDED TO 21 MAY 2008

  DOWNLOAD LETTER OF OFFER APRIL 2010 (250KB)

The latest Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia offer for 2010 will close on 12 May 2010. The offer is for bagged and bulk fertiliser for the ratooning and late planting for delivery from July to October this year.  The Offer order forms and information for the 19 April – 12 May offer were sent to all CANEGROWERS members last month, but due to a mailing issue, the offer has now been extended to the 21st of May 2010

CANEGROWERS is encouraging all members to play their part in assisting this new competitor into the eastern seaboard market by purchasing their annual fertiliser requirements from Ravensdown.  Ravensdown will consider acceleration of permanent storage to service the sugarcane industry in regional Queensland if 2010/2011 sales targets are met.  What’s new in this offer:

• The offer will be open from 19 April – 12 May with delivery window from July - October.
• This offer does NOT require any deposit or up-front product payment, growers will be invoiced directly.
• Two payment options will be available: payment on account (20th of the month following delivery) or full product payment upfront (prior to 30 June 2010 or delivery) which entitles growers to a 1.5% discount.
• Increase in product range for cane and horticulture - granular urea, muriate of potash, DAP, ammonium sulphate (granular) and five mixes. Minimums of 11 tonnes total for bags and 11 tonne total for bulk.
• Using the direct debit payment method or preferring to make the full upfront payment (prior to 30 June) entitles you to a 1.5% discount off the standard product price.
• High quality one tonne bags (1250 kg safe load strength, multi-trip 6:1 bags, 320gsm and UV stabilised and which have four corner straps in addition to a single loop) are included in the price.
• Plastic liners are optional for an additional cost and provision of pallets is the customer’s responsibility and cost, no exchanges of pallets are possible.

The enormous support shown by CANEGROWERS members during 2009 has directly resulted in a range of positive changes to the entry level system offered by Ravensdown in its first year. 
If you haven’t yet received the offer in the mail, or if you have any questions, contact Ravensdown customer centre on 1800 624 122.

Ravensdown soil testing service

Just a year after fertiliser giant Ravensdown put its toe in the fertiliser market on the eastern seaboard, it has already set about its expansion program – launching a new soil test service very much at the behest of local growers. In addition they have consolidated their position in the Queensland and New South Wales market by adding to their local team, based out of Brisbane.

The announcement this week that Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia (RFA) has launched a best management practice compliant soil testing service was well received by cane growers up and down the coast. Ravensdown’s research scientist, Dr Alister Metherell and ARL’s Manager, Michael White have worked closely with Dr Bernard Schroeder of research and extension body, BSES Limited, to ensure the product being launched met the Australian industry’s rigorous best management practice guidelines, and the Queensland Government’s regulatory requirements, especially with the recent introduction of The Great Barrier Reef Protection Amendment Bill 2009 on 1 January 2010.

Cane growers are no strangers to soil sampling - a tool they use to determine input requirements. Crop inputs, including fertiliser which can account for up to a quarter of growers’ yearly spend, are expensive and soil testing is one tool growers can use to determine appropriate nutrients to maximise crop yields cost effectively. Soil testing assists growers to apply the right nutrients at the right time for the lowest cost.

This month, Bruce Keenan joins Ravensdown’s eastern-seaboard team as the Sales and Business Development Manager. Bruce has been charged with developing the Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia business for the sugarcane industry and will facilitate the company’s plans to roll out a locally based sales agronomy team that Ravensdown plans to bring on line in 2010.

Keenan has been spending time with sugarcane growers up and down the coast, bringing with him the hands-on approach for which Ravensdown is becoming known. He intends to continue travelling to the various sugar regions to develop a greater knowledge of the sugar industry and more specifically cane growers’ requirements. Having been ‘born and raised’ on a farm, his passion remains firmly entrenched in all farm systems and the opportunities to improve production. His experience in Western Australia and New Zealand covers a wide range of agricultural experience, which includes sheep shearing, agricultural supplies, managing a sales agronomy team and farm owner.

Ravensdown has confirmed that its soil sampling kits will be available from all local CANEGROWERS offices. The kits will help growers collect samples and take advantage of this comprehensive and price competitive service. The Ravensdown soil testing service undergoes rigorous assessment on an ongoing basis to ensure accuracy, compliance to Australian standards, and to ensure the fast turnaround that the company boasts, is maintained.

According to CANEGROWERS CEO Ian Ballantyne, this is just one prong in the increased benefits under the next growth phase planned by Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia.

“2009 was a good first year for the relationship and considerable benefits flowed to CANEGROWERS members from the moment Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia entered the market,” he said.

Mr Ballantyne said 2010 would see the relationship strengthen with some exciting developments, firstly with the introduction of the soil testing service, the appointment of permanent Queensland management and regionally based agronomic staff, and later in the year, the introduction of AgChem..