Custom Fertiliser Blends

Product Overview

A Tailored, Soil-First Approach to Farm Performance

At Ecofarm, we offer a complete, tailored approach to improve soil health and farm productivity using natural, sustainable methods. Here’s how we work with you to build a more resilient and profitable system.

1. Accurate Soil Sampling Across Your Farm
   We start by taking soil samples across your farm to understand what’s really going on in your soil and how it differs across the property.
2. Detailed Soil Analysis and Clear Insights
   Your samples are analysed to assess nutrient levels, mineral balance, and potential limiting factors that may be influencing pasture performance, soil function, and animal health. We then walk you through what the results are showing, so you understand what’s happening in your soil and why we’re recommending specific actions.
3. Custom Mineral Blends Designed for Your Soil
   Using this data, we develop a custom mineral and conditioning blend tailored specifically to your soil’s requirements, with a focus on improving soil function and long-term system performance.
4. Simple, Targeted Application on Farm
   We supply your blend in a solid, easy-to-apply form, designed to support soil health and reduce reliance on chemical inputs. In most cases, applications are made annually as part of an ongoing programme.
5. A Natural, System-Based Approach to NZ Farming
   Ecofarm takes a different approach to farming – focusing on how the soil is functioning beneath the surface, not just what’s being put on top. By understanding and addressing the real limiting factors, we support a system that can perform more naturally and efficiently over time.

How Our Blends Are Designed

For soil systems to function effectively, physical structure, mineral balance, and biological activity all need to work together. Our custom blends are designed with this in mind:

Physics – Soil Structure and Energy Flow
Probitas soil conditioner is included in our blends to support soil structure and help restore the natural energy systems within the soil. In many cases, these processes have been disrupted by past farming practices, reducing the soil’s ability to function efficiently. Supporting this energy movement can improve nutrient and water dynamics within the soil.

Chemistry – Mineral Balance and Nutrient Dynamics
Our blends typically include key minerals such as calcium, magnesium, potassium, sodium, silica, and sulphur, which play important roles in plant growth and photosynthesis. Trace elements are included where required, based on soil and pasture test results.

Biology – Living Soil Systems

Our inoculum includes cyanobacteria, known for their role in nitrogen fixation and carbon capture within the soil, along with vesicular-arbuscular mycorrhiza (VAM), which help regulate soil moisture and assist in unlocking and transporting minerals to the plant.

A range of fungal species are also included to support the breakdown of organic material and contribute to the soil’s natural detoxification processes, supporting a more functional and balanced soil system.

Custom Blends Designed Around Your Soil Function

Our fertiliser blends are built directly from your soil and pasture test results, with a focus on identifying the key limiting factors within your system – not just what’s missing, but what’s holding the soil back from functioning properly.

Each Ecofarm blend is tailored to address the imbalances, excesses, and constraints identified in your results, with the aim of supporting how the soil is designed to function.

This is where your management and our analysis come together – working with the biological processes and natural energy systems within the soil, rather than overriding them.

By supporting soil function at this level, you can begin to unlock the productive potential already present within your farm, leading to more efficient nutrient cycling, improved pasture performance, and a system that becomes more resilient and easier to manage over time – with flow-on benefits to profitability.