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Luisetti Seeds Launches New High Yielding Blue Pea Cultivar
Following our extensive field pea trial conducted by Plant and Food Research, Luisetti Seeds will launch a new blue pea
cultivar, Cooper.
Cooper is a medium-large blue pea, a semi leafless type, resistant to powdery mildew. Cooper had the highest mean yield of all blue peas in the trial and was the second highest yielder over all.
Limited Cooper seed will be available for Luisetti Seeds...
Darfield Rugby Club Maintains Quality of Its Grounds
Darfield Rugby Club President James Scollay inspects the newly sown pitch
Last season the Darfield club hosted finals day in Ellesmere rugby. As a result of bad weather, especially snow, the two fields at the club were badly affected (by not only the weather but the use of the farm machinery in getting them ready and the games played on them) and the rugby had to be transferred from the...
BYDV Resistance in Wheat
BYDV symptoms in a wheat crop
The first field trials of advanced wheat lines that feature resistance to barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) were sown in the 2015-16 season. Two series of lines were developed using marker assisted selection to track the BYDV resistance into the milling wheat Viceroy and biscuit wheat Empress. These breeding lines were assessed for their field performance relative...
Luisetti Seeds and Plant & Food Research Tackle the “Yield Robbers” Head On
The Luisetti Seeds/Plant & Food Research cereal breeding programme is the largest cereal breeding operation in New Zealand and both companies have deliberately decided to attempt to breed resistance to the three biggest yield robbers of the New Zealand cereal crop.
Scald Resistance in Barley
Barley breeding lines with resistance against scald have been developed by Luisetti Seeds and Plant...
LUISETTI SEEDS DIPS ITS TOE INTO MOTORSPORT!
Luisetti Seeds is pleased to announce we will be supporting Rick Johnson’s bid to win the 2013 World Jet Boat Marathon to be held in New Zealand later this year.
Rick Johnson farms Mt Torlesse Station at Springfield, and with his wife Leanne, are Luisetti Seeds clients. Rick and Leanne grow large areas of wheat, oats and barley for both Luisetti Seeds and Stapletons.
Over the last five years...
NEW SUB CLOVER VARIETIES IMPRESS
A 20 hectare hill country paddock established in February 2013 has produced a large amount of very useful winter feed for Matt Iremonger, Equity Manager of Mt Benger, North Canterbury.
The steep paddock was worked, then a mix containing Luisetti Seeds new sub clovers (Monti and Antas) as well as Huia white clover, ryegrass and cocksfoot were broadcast from a fixed wing aircraft before being...
NEW SEED CLEANING FACILITY INSTALLED AT RANGIORA
Luisetti Seeds Oliver Voyager gravity table is now up and running in preparation for this year’s brassica, clover and pea harvest.
The Oliver Voyager (which is identical to the model installed at Stapletons last year) separates seeds based on bulk density.
The seed is “fluidised” on the table by four large fans flowing through a perforated deck. The table is set on an angle and the good seed...
NEW TRAINEE FIELD REPRESENTATIVE
We are delighted to announce the appointment of Henry Norris as a trainee field representative for the Mid/North Canterbury areas.
Henry comes to us after spending three years at Lincoln University where he completed a B.Com(Ag) degree. Prior to this he attended Christchurch Boy’s High School. He has a strong interest in plant science and completed a number of seed and plant science related...
GRUBOUT U2
New Grass Endophyte to be Released
Canterbury pasture plant breeding company Cropmark Seeds Ltd recently announced the release of a new endophyte GrubOUT® U2 a major advance in the fight against a multi-million dollar farming problem – insect pests.
Luisetti Seeds and Stapletons representatives visited a trial site at Darfield recently and we saw first hand the potential that Cropmark’s...
LUISETTI SEEDS PIG HUNT
When rugby isn’t being discussed in the Luisetti Seeds smoko room, the next most popular topic is hunting. With so many hunters on the staff it was decided to hold a pig hunting competition to put to the test some of the stories that have been told of ferocious boars and 14 point stags.
Three teams were formed:
The Southern Porkers
Chris Sparks (now working for Syngenta)
Carmel Burgess
Peter...