Pastura.

Boost Pasture, Strengthen Soils, and Improve Nitrogen Efficiency with Pastura

A flexible soil conditioning system designed for high country and hill country sheep & beef farms, supporting pasture performance, soil resilience, and efficient nutrient use.

Why High Country Farms Need Pastura

Steep terrain, cold soils, and low organic matter make it difficult to get the best from your pastures. Applying nitrogen can be expensive and logistically challenging. Pastura helps your soil work harder naturally, improving pasture growth, nutrient efficiency, and long-term soil health.

How Pastura Works

Activate Your Soil’s Natural Potential

Pastura encourages beneficial soil microbes that enhance natural nitrogen cycling and improve nutrient uptake by your pastures. It strengthens soil function, promotes healthier roots, and helps pastures thrive even in cold, dry, or low-input conditions.

Flexible application allows you to use Pastura once or twice per year depending on your farm’s management strategy.

Benefits of Using Pastura

What Pastura Can Do for Your Farm

  • Boost pasture growth and improve stocking rate potential

  • Increase nitrogen efficiency to get more from every fertiliser dollar

  • Build soil and pasture resilience in challenging seasons

  • Strengthen long-term soil health and microbial activity

  • Flexible application — once or twice per year to suit your farm’s needs

Easy to Apply

Fits Seamlessly Into Your Farm Programme

Pastura is designed to integrate easily with your existing farm management. Use it as a foundation for soil health and pasture performance.

Science You Can Trust

Based on Proven Soil Principles

Healthy soils with active microbial communities perform better. Pastura works with your soil biology to enhance nitrogen cycling, improve nutrient uptake, and strengthen pastures — all based on well-established soil function principles.

While results depend on soil type, pasture species, and farm management, farmers consistently report improved pasture growth, better nutrient efficiency, and stronger soil resilience.

Learn how healthy soils can boost nitrogen naturally — read our full blog.

How Pastura Supports Natural Nitrogen Fixation

Pastura is designed to enhance soil conditions and microbial activity in high country and hill country pastures, supporting the natural processes that enable nitrogen fixation. While not a fertiliser replacement, it targets the key factors that influence pasture nitrogen availability:

1. Supporting Beneficial Soil Microbes

  • Pastura conditions the soil to create a more hospitable environment for free-living nitrogen-fixing bacteria and the symbiotic microbes associated with legumes like clover.

  • Healthy microbial communities are essential for cycling nutrients efficiently and enabling nitrogen fixation under challenging high country conditions.

2. Improving Soil Nutrient Availability

  • Nitrogen fixation relies on certain trace nutrients that microbes need to function effectively.

  • Pastura is designed to improve soil nutrient balance and availability, supporting the natural microbial processes that convert atmospheric nitrogen into forms plants can use.

3. Enhancing Soil Structure and Root Health

  • Improved soil structure increases oxygen and water availability, which is vital for root and nodule development.

  • Pastura supports root growth and overall soil function, providing better conditions for legumes to form nodules and for microbes to thrive.

Science-Based Principles Behind Pastura

  • Adequate nutrient availability supports nitrogenase activity in microbes.

  • Healthy, biologically active soils enhance microbial diversity and nitrogen cycling.

  • Good soil structure and balanced nutrient conditions provide the environment microbes need to fix nitrogen effectively.

Note: Pastura is designed with these principles in mind. Its formulation aims to support the natural biological processes that improve nitrogen use efficiency in pastures.

Sources for Verification:

  • Peoples MB, et al., Legume nitrogen fixation: the influence of environmental and soil factors, Soil Biology & Biochemistry, 2009

  • Giller KE, Nitrogen Fixation in Agriculture: Theory and Practice, 2001

  • Khan MS et al., Role of soil microbes in nitrogen fixation and nutrient cycling, Microbiological Research, 2016

  • Bhattacharyya P, et al., Soil organic matter and microbial activity in legume pastures, Biology and Fertility of Soils, 2012