Sales Agronomists
We have a team of Sales Agronomists located in key areas throughout the South Island who are supported by specialist Horticulture staff in our FarmCentres. They visit grower properties, monitor their crops, and recommend inputs that will be required over that particular part of the growing season. Our Sales Agronomists can either deliver products at the time they visit or arrange for the products required to be available at a FarmCentre for the grower to collect.
Products and Services
CRT have secured all forms of inputs for the horticulture crops grown by our grower shareholders from local and multi-national suppliers. These products are specific to our grower needs and are serviced by our fully accredited Sales Agronomists.
Plant Protection
We stock products including fungicides, insecticides, miticides, herbicides, adjuvants, macro - micro nutrients and bio organic materials for the organic growers.
Specialised Equipment
CRT supply refractometers, harvest snips, electronic and manual pruning gear, safety clothing, vine stakes, clips, ties and guards, planter bags, growing medium, string, hooks, posts, wire, Safety signs and clothing, we have two irrigation specialists who are able to design and supply the growers irrigation needs.
CRT Horticulture is the Australasian agent for SFM technology who specialise in fruit handling and harvesting equipment.
Vegetable Seeds
CRT have the widest range available in the South Island. We can arrange seed coating or supply seed already coated.
Three of our Sales Agronomists specialise in the sales of this seed to broad acre, process, and protected crop growers. They support their recommendations with Growing Guides which are specific to grower needs.
Spray Schedules
We have developed industry approved Spray Schedules for the following crops:
Apples; Pears; Blackcurrants; Kiwifruit; Cherries; Peaches; Nectarines; Plums; and Potatoes.
These Spray Schedules are based on domestic and export requirements and include registered products specific to a crop, withholding periods, application timing, and compatibility. Please email us if you would like to request any Spray Schedules (Note: these are only available to CRT shareholders).
Soil & Tissue sampling
CRT offer soil and tissue sampling for testing nutrient requirements by crop by growth stage. We send the samples away to Hill Laboratories for analysis then complete an independent interpretation of the results and design a programme best suited to the crop’s nutrient requirements.
Additional information
We have a section in the very popular CRT Agline monthly magazine, we feature product specials in the monthly Rural Trader mailers, and from time to time we send out a technical newsletter called “Cropping Up” (which includes information pertaining to current growing conditions, disease & pest pressure, pictorials of weeds, pests or diseases, and dates for field days). To request your copy of our Cropping Up newsletter (available only to CRT shareholders) please email us CRT Horticulture also features every fortnight on Rob’s Country, on both CTV and Sky’s CUE channel.
CRT Horticulture “We’ll grow better together!”