Wallabies?

We have exhibited at the Cereals event (arable trade show) for the last 4 years.
It has always been a busy and worthwhile show. Being able to talk to arable farmers who are our key customers is priceless! Not only can we pass on advice or guidance on how to use Grazers for maximum benefit on specific crops or situations, but more importantly we get feedback from the farmer on how they are using it most effectively in the field.
This year Cereals 2012 was our busiest ever, with some excellent contacts. Sue, although new to Grazers, was keen to help out and, despite being evacuated from the hotel at 4am because somebody had had a crafty fag in their bathroom, setting off the fire alarm, we managed to keep awake and talking for the 2 days.

One interesting contact was a farmer from Tasmania who came straight to our stand and collared Sue
" Hey this here Grazers! "-   Sue was slightly anxious being her first time at the show and still getting her head round the product -  what was this man going to come out with?  -"Its ruddy fantastic! You sent as a sample last year, we sprayed the headland (24m) round the worst edge of a field of wheat,  and the wallabies never crossed it, or the wild chickens! " Sue,  her poise and professional hat firmly back on, then got the gentleman to talk to other visitors to the stand to extoll our product. Fantastic!

Grazers on cherries?

We have had an enquiry last week regarding Grazers use on cherry orchards which are being eaten at bud, flower and fruit stage. So I thought I'd add a little note this week for anybody else who maybe has similar problems.
Whilst this is a little outside the box we have had some very encouraging reports, over the last couple of years, from nursery trials in Holland and domestic use here in the UK, showing positive effects against damage to young fruit, from not only pigeons and other birds but also against squirrel damage to new growth and young fruit on fruit trees.
Don't worry about crop safety or taint to the fruit, Grazers is very safe to use and actually benefits the plant due to its special calcium formulation and leaves no taint if sprayed as per label.
If you have any questions regarding this please don't hesitate to phone me or send an email.

Thursday 4th October 2012

In the 1990s I got to know Jim Over from J.E. Over & Co. Ltd. an entrepeneur who I felt was ahead of his time regarding nutrition and the soil - He was offering an analytical and trace element service to farmers and growers - He took soil and tissue samples from individual fields and sent them away to a local laboratory for full spectrum analysis this showed levels of nitrogen, phosphate, potash and just as importantly 9 minor trace elements such as magnesium, maganese, zinc, boron etc Jim would produce a report enabling the client to see exactly what a specific crop needed in a specific field that year, this enabled farmers to know exactly what a crop needed without waste and runoff and often reduced the amount of fertilizer they actually needed.

This concept got me hooked on nutrient balances and the soil - I find it incredible that we don't fully understand the interactions and 'magic' of nutrients and bacteria within the soil.

I remember asking him once if he'd ever come across a field that didn't require treatment after analysis, he said only once and that was a field of permanent pasture which had never been ploughed, sprayed or had fertilizer applied  but just grazed extensively for as long as the owner had records. Jim was so excited about the results despite the fact he would not be earning any money from that particular field!

Jims knowledge of trace elements and the way they work together within the soil and plant fascinated me and I started working with him and his business partner Nina in 1999. It was about a year later that we discovered some exciting results after using a certain cocktail of trace elements on a crop of wheat  and Grazers was born!