We’ve been turning challenges into opportunities with our personal service and innovative fertilisers for New Zealand farmers and growers since 1999

Fertco was founded in 1999 when dairy farmers Ross Karl, Ken Titchener and Rob Phillips wanted to make a dicalcic phosphate fertiliser they believed would improve soil, plant, and animal health.

Ross shares his experience:

“I just wasn’t happy with what was happening with my stock. And I was also using DAP (di-ammonium phosphate). The stock weren’t thriving on what I was growing. Animal health was a big issue. So, I decided I would give dicalcic a go. And within 3 years we did notice a difference. I actually got a ring from my vet, wanting to know why my account in, I think it was, October – there was nothing on my October account. That was a huge thing. I used to have cows going down with milk fever, and staying down and dying. A cow that had been milking for a week or 10 days would be down in the paddock. And that started to disappear.”

And so it began – Founded by farmers for farmers.