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  • Its Time to Lime

    Its Time to Lime

    ITS TIME TO START ORGANISING YOUR AG LIME FOR NEXT SEASON

    PACIFIC FERTILISER can assist with Soil Mapping, Ag Lime Supply & Spreading.

    Often in the new year Ag Lime supply will get tight. It is better to get organised and get your soil tests or soil mapping completed before the end of the year to enable you to order the Ag lime in December or Early Janurary.

    Using the latest Veris mapping trailer we can map your paddocks to provide a variable rate application map for our spreaders which vary the application rate of Ag Lime to match your soils varying pH levels.

    The mapping trailer also collects data on EC, Organic matter and Topography building a valuble asset for you to build on in the future with NDVI and yield data etc.

    Pacific Fertiliser can supply High Calcium Limestone products in bulk & bagged and in product variants from ultra fine powder through to granulated & prilled lime.

    Ag Lime is a soil conditioner made from pulverised limestone (calcium carbonate). Its main use in agricultural and civil applications is to correct soil pH.

    Ag Lime is generally used to increase soil pH, which can increase crop yields among a wide range of soil conditions. Ag Lime is often used to improve the physical structure of the soil by reducing surface crusting, increasing water retention, and reducing soil erosion. Lime treatment helps crops to better tolerate drought and/or wet conditions by increasing both root penetration and water percolation through the soil.

  • Decorative Stone Brisbane

    Decorative Stone Brisbane

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    Pacific Fertiliser, supplies a decorative pebble product suitable for gardens, pathways, driveways, and civil projects.

    The decorative white stone is dolomite or limestone chip refined into a 3-8mm stone product.

    We can also produce filterstone, poultry grit and selgrit.

    We also supply other decorative stone products such as

    • decorative white stone which is made from limestone chip refined and screened to a 3-10mm stone product.
    • decorative gypsum stone – a grey opaque gypsum chip refined and screened to a 3-10mm stone product.

    Pacific Fertiliser is a wholesaler so please ask your local landscape supplier about our products.

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  • Hunter Lime

    Hunter Lime

    Pacific Fertiliser supplies high quality lime products designed to treat acid sulphate soils and correct soil pH levels. We can supply the following areas competitively in bulk or bulkbags from our products plants:

    • Bundaberg
    • Sunshine Coast
    • Brisbane
    • Gold Coast
    • Ballina
    • Byron
    • Newcastle
    • Gosford
    • Wyong
    • Sydney
    • Wollongong

    We can supply both ag lime and hydrated lime for the treatment of Acid Sulphate Soils (ASS). We have developed high quality lime products for use in agriculture and tailored products for civil projects such as neutralime.

    Pacific Fertiliser can also supply other materials for your project such as fertiliser, gypsum, dolomite, bentonite, flocculants and seed etc.

  • Warwick Lime

    Warwick Lime

    Pacific Fertiliser can supply &  deliver lime from the Warwick limestone pit just off Cunningham Hwy.

    The Ag lime products are suitable from cropping, pastoral and horticultural operations in darling downs, lockyer valley and granite belt area.

    We can also offer pH mapping and variable rate lime applications to ensure you have a uniform pH across each paddock.

  • Hot Lime

    Hot Lime

    Hot Lime (or quick lime) for agricultural applications.

    A mineral with chemical formula CaO, and is commonly called quick lime, burnt lime or hot lime. It is made by heating limestone (CaCO3) to drive off carbon dioxide.

    Quick lime is used in preference to normal Ag lime or slaked lime for agriculture applications in some horticultural crops especially for treating clubroot. Hot lime is a faster-acting lime and has the highest neutralising value (NV) compared to other forms.

    When hydrated with one mole of water, Hot lime forms slaked lime, Ca(OH)2. Hot lime generates heat when it becomes slaked with water and therefore speeds up the reaction to form calcium in the soil.

    Quick Lime is more concentrated and caustic than agricultural lime and unpleasant and dangerous to handle, so couple this with a higher cost and its use is not commonly used in general agriculture such as broadacre and pastoral applications.

    For reference Slaked lime (or hydrated lime) is calcium hydroxide Ca(OH)2 and has a higher neutralising value than agricultural lime but is more expensive and not usually used in broadacre and pastoral application.

    Pacific fertiliser can supply quicklime, hydrated lime and normal ag lime in bulk. bulkbags and pallets of 25kg bags.

    Types of Lime:
    Agricultural lime (calcium carbonate)
    Quick lime (calcium oxide) – also called caustic lime, hot lime, burnt lime and unslaked lime
    Hydrated lime (calcium hydroxide) – also called slacked lime. Bulk seconds called Meadowlime
    Dolomite – Pure dolomite is 54.3% CaCO3 and 45.7& MgCO3
    Dolomitic Limestone or Magnesian limestone contains magnesium carbonate much lower ratios compared to dolomite eg the MgCO3 content may range approximately from 4.4-23%.
    Magnesite (magnesium carbonate)
    Burnt magnesite MgO (magnesium oxide)
    Wet lime (their usefulness is determined by the NV and water content)
    Granular Lime – granular limestone, prilled limestone or pelletised limestone
    Lime and cement kiln dusts (their NV varies from 70–150 and Ca 25–54%. Mg is usually less than 1%)
    FLUID LIME- liquid lime. This product is made by mixing very finely ground limestone (suspecnsion lime or ultra fine lime) with either water or liquid nitrogen fertilizer along with a suspending agent (attapulgite clay) and applying with a liquid fertiliser applicator.
    SLAGS – Steel industry byproduct mainly is magnesium silicate or slag
    FLUID-BED ASH- Byproduct of electrical utility companies from mixing limestone into ground coal in a fluidising bed. Also called stack dust.
    Gypsum (calcium sulfate) – no or limited NV value
    Limestone effectiveness – An expression of aglime effectiveness is based on the combined effect of chemical purity (CCE) and fineness. The ECCE is determined by multiplying CCE by factors like particle size (fineness.) Also referred to as effective neutralising value (ENV), total neutralising power (TNP), effective neutralising material (ENM) and, in the US “lime score”.

  • Prilled Lime

    Prilled Lime

    Pacific Fertiliser is now selling a granular lime product similar to Calciprill ex Brisbane. We can offer 1-2mm, 2-4mm, 2-6mm & 4-12mm granules.

  • Bundaberg Soil Improvement Products

    Bundaberg Soil Improvement Products

    Pacific Fertiliser can supply, deliver and spread high quality fertilisers, soil improvement and soil ameliorant products to Bundaberg and SE QLD growers to improve yields and soil balance.

    Bundaberg gypsum

  • QLD Lime

    QLD Lime

    Pacific Fertiliser sells high quality lime products throughout QLD.

    We sell Ag lime and lime products suitable for agriculture, industrial and civil applications.

    Products are available in bulk and bag.

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  • Ravensdown Exits QLD

    Ravensdown Exits QLD

    Ravensdown will exit the Australian fertiliser market and cease its Queensland operations.

    The move comes five months after the completion of the sale of Ravensdown’s operations in Western Australia and South Australia and within a financial year that has seen the farmer-owned co-operative meeting its turnaround expectations in New Zealand.

    Ravensdown Fertiliser Australia was set up in 2009 after cane growers invited the co-operative to start supplying soil nutrients. The original business plan based its viability on a 100,000 tonnes a year target. But cyclones, flooding and depressed world prices for sugar meant fertiliser tonnages reached only 70,000 tonnes last year.

    Ravensdown are concetrating on the Zealand market, by investing in advanced nutrient management training, new infrastructure such as new loaders in stores and in technology such as Smart Maps which provides a visual audit trail for a farm’s nutrient status. Ravensdown are seeing strong demand from a buoyant New Zealand sector and have good availability of products like superphosphate, DAP and urea in our stores,” concluded Greg Campbell.

    Ravensdown was created after farmers were getting frustrated by rising input costs and falling fertiliser quality. This was compounded in 1977 when the two large private companies supplying superphosphate into New Zealand creating a monolpoly. Kempthorne Prosser announced it was going to be buying its rival, Dunedin-based Dominion fertilisers,

    The then presidents of the South Canterbury, Otago and North Otago Federated Farmers went to farmers in the area to ask them to become founding members of a new co-operative. Ravensdown eventually mounted a takeover bid for KP which was completed on 16 August 1978.

     

  • Pacific Fertiliser Bulk Transport

    PacFert brands its bulk tippers to cart the products from point of sale to the end customers.

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