Agronomic Advice

A partner in seeking the best solution

On-farm or in-store, our sales agronomists can assist with advice and product knowledge on a wide range of products and services to help maximise the productivity of your crop,including:

- Farm and paddock planning services
- Soil and plant tissue testing
- Crop variety selection
- Fertiliser programs (bulk and specialty)
- Plant stress and plant stimulant solutions
- Pest control, monitoring, diagnosis and prescription – weed,insect and disease
- Spray cart calibration.

Elders also provides useful tools to help plan and forecast for a more effectively timed crop, including:

- Agricast: Agricast reports provide an advanced projection data, including a 5-day spray window and weather data from your local weather station, including wind, temperature,humidity and rainfall and spray delta recommendations.

- Agriplanner: This service enables you and your Elders agronomist to develop a block by block (paddock-by-paddock) plan that delivers a documented operating budget and plan in terms of rotations, inputs and operations, as well as a projection of expected profits.

- Nutriplanner: Your Elders agronomist can deliver lab results of your soil that can be logged and filed, as well as provide a report showing a suggested nutrient program.

Additional Services
For a fee your local agronomist can spend time with you and provide a detailed crop monitoring report to ensure that you are competitive and at the cutting edge of industry performance.

Agricultural Chemicals

Maximise crop production through best advice on protection

The importance of a timely preventative program for pest, weed and crop disease management cannot go understated. At Elders we stock a comprehensive range of products to help prevent or treat pest outbreaks in crops, including:

- Fungicides
- Herbicides
- Insecticides
- Surfactants.

We have established trading agreements with many of the major suppliers of proprietary and generic agricultural chemicals and our relationship with these suppliers ensures growers have access to the wide range of products they need at competitive prices.

Companies include, but are not limited to:

• Bayer Crop Science
• Crop Care Australasia
• DowAgrosciences
• DuPont
• Farmoz
• Monsanto
• Nufarm
• Syngenta

Fertiliser

Maximise crop production through best advice on fertilisers

Fertiliser application is critical to supplement soil nutrients and aid in plant growth. Our fertiliser range is based on the most widely required nutrients such as N, P, K, as well as lesser nutrients like calcium and magnesium and micronutrients that help prevent or cure deficiencies resulting from particular soil or crop conditions. We also forecast and manage imported and local specialty fertiliser supplies.

Elders stock a wide range of fertiliser including:

- Bulk commodity products
- Speciality imported fertilisers
- Liquid fertilisers
- Custom blends in both granular and liquid fertilisers.

The fertilisers we stock can be applied a number of different ways and our agronomists can assist in selecting the correct method of application. Elders offers the highest quality products, sourced from a wide range of suppliers, and is one of Australia’s leading national retailers of fertilisers. At Elders we deliver the expertise and knowledge to help growers select and apply the right products to achieve their production objectives in the most cost effective manner.

Elders also provides soil testing services available through our team of local agronomists.

General Merchandise

Maximise crop production through best advice on establishment and maintenance techniques

We can assist in providing general supplies required in the day to day activities of growers, including:

- Post, wire and trellis fencing products
- Pruning equipment
- Safety equipment
- Waterproof clothing
- Irrigation tape and mulch
- Crop sunscreen solutions
- Water monitoring
- Packaging (trays and punnets)