3-5T/H Compost Fertilizer Making Machine In New Zealand

Project background: An environmental protection attempt by a pragmatic rancher

This customer owns about 160 hectares of pasture in the South Island of New Zealand, raising an average of about 4,500 sheep per year, which is a standard medium-sized operation. He has been engaged in breeding and wool export for a long time and is very familiar with all links in the wool industry chain.

However, the export market has changed dramatically in the past five years, especially after the COVID-19 epidemic, the demand for non-high-quality wool by international wool mills has dropped sharply, resulting in customers piling up more than 8 tons of wool every year.

At the same time, the old problem of manure treatment has become more and more difficult. Traditional manure spreading and composting methods can no longer meet the requirements of environmental regulations. Coupled with soil nutrient loss and rising costs, the customer came up with a bold idea - can wool and sheep manure be used to make organic compost granules?

He hopes to turn these two seemingly useless byproducts into high value-added products, which can not only improve local soil, but also supply ecological fertilizers to neighboring orchards, vineyards, and ornamental botanical gardens. This idea gave birth to the implementation of the FZLH350 compost fertilizer making machine in New Zealand project.

Raw material composition: Regeneration design of local resources

Different from general organic fertilizer granulation, the biggest raw material feature of this customer is the "wool + manure" dual structure. According to the equipment configuration and pellet production requirements, the customer determined a relatively mature set of raw material ratios and pretreatment methods:

• Sheep manure (about 55%-60%): piled in the fermentation area behind the shed, after initial turning and fermentation for 7-14 days;
• Short wool, broken wool, and waste wool (about 25%-30%): collected after shearing, processed into fibers below 5cm by a crusher to enhance the particle structure;
• Wood chips/sawdust (about 10%): from nearby timber mills, hygroscopic and shape-keeping, reducing moisture;
• Plant oil residue, kelp ash (about 5%): improve fertility and improve soil microecology.

This combination not only realizes a closed loop of resources, but also makes the pellet fertilizer have excellent looseness, slow release and nutritional balance. In particular, the protein and keratin components of wool can increase the nitrogen content after fermentation, and are regarded as high-quality slow-release fertilizer substrates by some organic agriculture experts in New Zealand.

The role and application of FZLH350 compost fertilizer making machine in New Zealand

The FZLH350 compost organic fertilizer pellet machine selected by the customer has a 37kW main motor power and a production capacity of 3-5 tons/hour. It is an industrial-grade medium-scale configuration with simple operation and low maintenance costs, making it very suitable for deployment on the edge of pastoral areas.

The introduction of this compost fertilizer making machine in New Zealand has brought substantial changes to the customer's entire operation system:

• Improving resource conversion efficiency: Traditional sheep manure composting has a long cycle and low efficiency, while the equipment directly presses fermented sheep manure and wool into granules, shortening the fermentation cycle by about 50%, and the daily processing capacity reaches more than 10 tons of raw materials;
• Standardized granule output: The granules have a uniform diameter (6mm/8mm) and a rounded shape, which is suitable for mechanical spreading and manual fertilization;
• Environmental compliance: The granules have no odor after forming, and are easy to store, transport and sell, helping customers to achieve harmless treatment of pollutants under the background of stricter environmental protection policies;
• Economic returns: According to preliminary statistics, the material cost of each ton of granular fertilizer is about NZ$90, and the market price is NZ$180-220, with considerable profit margins;
• Promoting brand building: The customer named the fertilizer product "Wool Pellet+", focusing on "green power from the pasture", and gained high recognition in the local agricultural trade fair and ecological agriculture circle.

In addition to "wool + manure", what else can this equipment do?

FZLH350 compost fertilizer making machine in New Zealand is not limited to this raw material structure. The customer also conducted a number of experiments during the operation process to verify the versatility of the equipment. The following are other types of raw materials adapted to FZLH350 and their uses:

• Cow dung + fungus residue mixed pellets (suitable for high organic matter vegetable bases)
• Chicken manure + corn cob powder (suitable for orchard fertilization)
• Peat + phosphate fertilizer + biological agent (microbial functional fertilizer)
• Bone meal + fish bone residue (made into animal protein fertilizer)
• Sheep manure + seaweed residue (used in grape plantations)

This flexible and diverse raw material adaptation capability makes FZLH350 fertilizer granulator machine not only a pellet machine, but also an agricultural resource innovation platform.

Innovation Dimension: The combination of New Zealand's ecological agriculture and carbon sink mechanism

As one of the first countries in the world to implement carbon neutral agricultural policies, New Zealand is exploring the business model of "agricultural carbon sink".

Customers also keenly captured this point-by making sheep manure and wool resources into highly stable soil organic fertilizers and continuously applying them to the land, the "soil lock" of carbon elements can be achieved, which has the potential for carbon credit certification.

At present, the customer has started preliminary contact with a local carbon sink certification service provider to evaluate the effectiveness of its pellet products as "carbon sequestration materials". If successful, its pellet fertilizer products can not only be sold in the organic agricultural market, but also obtain additional carbon sink income, opening up a new return channel for equipment investment.

In addition, the customer also plans to jointly conduct experiments on the impact of wool fertilizer pellets on the regeneration capacity of pasture with universities to provide scientific basis for promoting the "pasture-sheep manure-wool-fertilizer-pasture" ecological cycle. If this model is successful, it is expected to be replicated in other regions and become a model for sustainable pasture management.

An industrial transformation born from wool scraps and dung piles

For this New Zealand rancher, this FZLH350 compost fertilizer making machine in New Zealand is not only a tool to solve waste disposal, but also a door to the agricultural circular economy. Through it, he transformed the marginal resources that no one cared about in the past into ecological products recognized by the market, opening up the complete value chain from pasture to farmland to brand.

What is even more valuable is that his story does not rely on external capital or high-tech thresholds, but is rooted in local reality and integrated into the rhythm of nature.

With the obsession of "making a good fertilizer granule", he completed the ecological reconstruction of the pasture and injected a simple but strong innovative force into the New Zealand pastoral economy. In the future, perhaps it is this kind of pasture project that will constitute the most authentic soil for the green upgrade of New Zealand agriculture. If you are interested in our compost fertilizer making machine in New Zealand, feel free to contact RICHI MACHINERY to get quotes, videos and other information.