Speciality fertilizer producer awarded Soil Association licence

PRESS RELEASE: A leading supplier of high quality speciality fertilizers to the commercial grower has achieved Soil Association certification.

Sussex-based Solufeed - which manufactures water soluble fertilizers and chelated micronutrients - has had three of its fertilizer products certified for use in organic systems.

The products, with licence number AL04202, are :

• Solufeed 6-5-10 + 4%MgO - a granular fertilizer for use in peat based organic composts, also ideal as an autumn/winter turf fertiliser due to it's high potash content;  
   
• Solufeed 9-3-3 - a fine grade fertilizer for use in coir and green waste composts. Suitable for spring and summer use on fine turf as it will not scorch and there is minimal leaching of the nutrients;
   
• Solufeed 4-4-4 + 2%MgO - a granular fertilizer manufactured from vegetal raw materials only and ideal as a base or top dressing particularly for slow growing plants; recommended for use on watercress. 

The process took around 9 months and involved providing supporting documentation and a series of inspections. 

The Soil Association inspects and awards organic certification to farms and businesses that meet its stringent organic standards.  The Soil Association logo - which will now appear on Solufeed's approved fertilizer labels and promotional material - gives recognition that the products now meet stringent standards.  It is the UK's largest organic certification body and responsible for certifying over 80 per cent of all organic products sold in the UK.

Dick Holden, Managing Director of Solufeed Ltd said : "We are delighted to have qualified for such a well regarded and internationally recognised organic standard.  Such certification confirms our ethos of protecting the environment and producing fertilizers that improve and support it." 

For further information please contact Trevor Martin on 07894 394110 or visit www.solufeed.com.  

Written and distributed by Clive Marlow Marketing Ltd. 14 Millers Croft, Malvern, Worcestershire WR14 3QH