About PGG Wrightson
PGG Wrightson Limited provides various products, services, and solutions for growers, farmers, and processors in New Zealand and internationally. The company is a subsidiary of Agria (Singapore) Pte Limited. The company operates rural supplies stores that offer a range of products and services, such as animal handling, health, ID, and nutrition and stock food; apparel; arable, pastoral, and horticultural chemicals; brassica and maize seeds; bulk on-farm and card fuel; conventional fencing; dairy hygiene; dairy supplies; dog food; electric fencing and EID; farm merchandise; feed conservation; fertilizers; and seeds and grains. The company also operates fruitfed supplies stores, which provide plant protection products, such as fungicides, insecticides, herbicides, growth regulators and miscellaneous chemicals; plant nutrition products, including base mixes, NPK products, foliar and fertigation products, and specialist glasshouse fertilizers; general merchandise, such as posts and wires, apparel, safety gears, respiratory, ladders, picking and pruning equipment, bird netting and other incidental requirements; vegetable seeds; machineries, such as airblast vine and orchard sprayers, orchard-rite wind machines, tanks, knapsacks and power pruners; and winery supplies, including dry goods, yeasts, enzymes, filter aids, fermentation aids, cleaning and miscellaneous products. In addition, the company offers irrigation services, such as irrigation services sprinklers, dripline, PVC, poly pipe, pumps and irrigation design; and horticultural services, including wind machine siting, calibration of airblast sprayers, herbicide booms, crop monitoring scouts – pest and disease identification, soil tests and fertilizer recommendations, petiole and leaf analysis, specific spray programs, information source on new products/developments, personal representation, in-house technical manager and regional technical advisors, product supply convenience, deliveries, and problem solving. Further, the company provides agency services for the sale and purchase of all categories of livestock at auction, private and on-farm sales, as well as online trading of livestock; provides sales and service for beef and dairy cattle, sheep, and deer. The company also offers wool brokerage and handling services to manufacturers and spinners worldwide; researches, evaluates, and breeds turf grass; researches and develops seeds and grains; manufactures and sells nutrition products, such as including Time capsule, Tracesure-I and RumenX, as well as a range of other products aimed at improving farm and grower production management around agronomy, animal nutrition, land development and crop/orchard inputs. In addition, the company provides real estate services, such as buying and selling farms; agricultural and horticultural training services; rural finance products, such as capital livestock finance, livestock finance, store accounts, seasonal finance, stock lease finance, plant and machinery finance, and term loans; and investment products, including term deposits, savings accounts, rural saving products, and credit current accounts to small-to-medium sized business, rural and household sectors. Further, it offers farming and agribusiness, commercial, and personal insurance, as well as life, health, income protection, and related insurance products; corporate insurance and risk management services; services for construction and aviation industry; and claims rehabilitation, professional risks, sprinkler certification and inspection, and trade credit services, as well as actuarial, financial, and statistical advice services. Additionally, the company designs and installs turnkey irrigation and pumping solutions, such as effluent disposal and stock water systems, and dairy shed reticulation for agricultural, horticultural, commercial and residential customers. The company operates 98 rural stores and 18 fruitfed supplies stores. History The company was founded in 1841.