Vincent Luisetti Awards 2018 Canterbury Rugby Women’s Sevens, Player of the Year.
Vincent announces Rebecca Todd is the Canterbury Rugby Women’s Sevens Player of the Year at the 2018 Canterbury Rugby Awards.
The Luisetti family have been involved with rugby in Rangiora as players, coaches, and administrators for 5 generations. In fact, Edward and Vincent’s great grandmother washed the jerseys for the North Canterbury team in her copper for 25 years! We have 5...
Sub Clover Reminder
Identify paddocks that need more sub clover now, and seed before the existing sub clover dies back as dry conditions set in.
If you have less than 1 sub clover plant every 2 metres, you’ll need to sow seed in January to increase your spring legume content.
Order your sub clover now ready for sowing in January, or talk to your Luisetti Seeds Agronomist for advice. You can compare our Antas and...
Armistice Day
New Zealand paused to reflect the sacrifice made by our soldiers 100 years after the end of the First World War, on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month.
Almost every country town in New Zealand has a cenotaph recording the names of men and women who did not return. At the outbreak of the war New Zealand had a population of 1.1 million, just under 10% of the population...
Join our team: Machine Operator Ashburton
Machine Operator
Ashburton
Luisetti Seeds is a significant provider of grain and seed processing in the Canterbury region as well as supplying seed both nationally and internationally. An opportunity has arisen for a Seed Cleaning Plant Operator at our Ashburton site.
Key responsibilities will include:
Operating a high output, modern, seed cleaning plant
General yard duties including...
Join our team: Sales Agronomist Mid Canterbury
Sales Agronomist
Mid Canterbury
Luisetti Seeds is a New Zealand family owned and operated company located in Rangiora and Ashburton. Luisetti Seeds retail and wholesale grain and seed throughout New Zealand and around the world.
An opportunity has arisen for a Sales Agronomist to join our team. The successful applicant will service a well-established client base in Mid Canterbury....
Introducing Karen van Staden
Karen is the friendly voice that greets you when you call Luisetti Seeds.
Last month, we welcomed Karen van Staden to Luisetti Seeds as our new Office Administrator.
We move fast around here and Karen has had to hit the ground running – but she’s handled everything we’ve thrown at her with aplomb. Most days you will find Karen running the show from behind her desk in reception. When you call...
Luisetti Seeds Father & Child Rugby Players Breakfast
The Mitre 10 Cup (National Provincial Championship) came out of the cabinet for the Luisetti Seeds Father & Child Rugby Players Breakfast. Not long afterwards, this cup disappeared somewhere up in the North Island!
Recently Luisetti Seeds held a Father & Child breakfast in association with Canterbury Rugby at their Headquarters at Rugby Park.
The boys and girls were presented...
Representative Honours for Uma
Leauma Tu’uga, tight hand prop (N:17), prepares to pack down against East Coast
Congratulations to Luisetti Ashburton staff member, Leauma Tu’uga, who has been selected to play for Mid Canterbury! Uma recently played his first representative match in the Mitre10 Heartland Championship against East Coast.
We’re proud to say Mid Canterbury won 56-7!
Mid Canterbury led 14-7 at half time, and...
Actively manage sub clover pastures for low-cost production gains
Ewes and lambs grazing Antas sub clover and Kakariki white clover, Banks Peninsula
Subterranean (sub) clover is important in summer dry pastures. It has high feed value for lactating ewes and lambs, fixes nitrogen (about 25 kg N/tonne of clover DM), and improves grass palatability. In unirrigated summer dry pastures, sub clover offers the greatest potential for maximising your spring...
Combat resistant Ramularia Leaf Spot
Ramularia collo cygni leaf spotting on barley plants.
Ramularia collo-cygni is also called Ramularia Leaf Spot or Sprinkling necrosis of barley, even though it can attack a variety of host plants in addition to barley. In New Zealand we usually see it in barley and wheat, though the fungus can also host on oats, rye, and grasses.
Most winter and spring barley varieties are vulnerable to...