Salt block relaunched
Harvest Blocks has been re-launched into the rural market this season with the new-look Harvest Salt block from Dominion Salt.
Harvest blocks has been re-launched into the rural market this season with the new-look Harvest Salt block from Dominion Salt.
First introduced in the 1990s as a competitor to imported rock salt, the unmineralised salt-only 20kg uncartoned block is part of the Summit salt block range.
It’s pressed from salt taken from the salt stockpile at the Dominion Salt solar recovery site at Lake Grassmere in Marlborough and marketed as 60 x 20kg uncartoned blocks wrapped on a 1.2 tonne pallet.
This year the Harvest block has been re-introduced in convenient new packaging.
“This consists of two sling bulk bags each containing 30 x 20kg salt blocks wrapped together on a pallet,” explains Dominion Salt rural market manager Colin Perkinson.
The 1.2t pallet presentation remains, but with the added advantage to merchants and farmers of two sling bulk bags that are easily and safely lifted by the merchant store forklifts and the average farm tractor and easily transported by farm utes to drop off points.
Merchants have the option to sell Harvest as either a full two-sling pallet (1.2t) or single slings (600kg). Handling is safe and easy with no need for store staff or farmers to physically handle the blocks through the delivery system.
The 600kg sling bulk bag can also be slung under helicopters and flown to the areas where the blocks will be used.
“It’s ideal for use with wethers on back blocks, for example,”
In 1990 trials on block weathering were conducted at Tara Hills and Ruakura Research Stations.
“For a number of years farmers had been claiming that rock salt weathered at a slower rate than pressed salt blocks,” Perkinson says.
Dominion Salt had developed Summit Rock as a longer-lasting product and wanted to test its weathering rate against imported rock salt.
The results were conclusive – Summit showed a markedly slower rate of erosion/weathering when compared to imported rock salt.
At Tara Hills Summit lasted 1.8 times longer when exposed to weathering elements.
- Visit www.dominionsalt.co.nz
