Archive for the 'Trials and Research' Category

Wednesday, April 15th, 2009

Grower and head agronomist at CRT DJ’s Grower Services, James Hook has just published a blog on the merits of FCRD.
http://djsgrowers.blogspot.com/2009/04/volcanic-rock-dust.html
The minute he published his blog, he made his first significant order!
Please contact FCRD or James for more information.

FCRD to feed WormsWork

Thursday, April 9th, 2009

FCRD has agreed to provide FCRD Minerals in a production trial for WormsWork. FCRD Minerals will be added to the feedstock of their test bed in the coming weeks to see how the worms respond and later to compare the casting and liquid by product for increases in available minerals.
Malcolm Campbell (Horticultural Consultant to WormsWork) [...]

Interview Transcript with ABC Radio

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

ABC 891 Adelaide (Adelaide), Weekends, 22/03/2009 11:05AM Compere:
Ashley Walsh and Malcolm Campbell
Walsh says the carpark caper was a great success. Campbell says there is more interest in vegetable gardens and people are finding nutrient problems. He says Maddern is the director of Fishers Creek Rock Dust. He says his product is in [...]

Volcanic minerals help wine grapes beat the heat

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009

First Press Wine - Wine Industry News
http://tinyurl.com/c8l83d
A revolutionary new mineral fertiliser made of volcanic rock has helped enterprising McLaren Vale grape growers protect their fruit from the severe heatwave temperatures that ravaged South Australia this summer.
Trial results released today by Fishers Creek Rock Dust (FCRD) show that when the product is applied to grapevine soils [...]

$32m For Soil Research - Carbon Storage

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009

The Federal Government today has allocated $32m for research programs specifically looking at soils capacity to emit or capture greenhouse gases.
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25132111-12377,00.html
In FCRD’s view, this is the precursor to working out how to quantify agriculture in the ETS Scheme. We already know that healthier soils are able to absorb more carbon dioxide. Although we don’t know [...]

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