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In the years before we handled all our inward deliveries in bulk, the total harvest arrived at the Luisetti Seeds door in sacks. You can imagine what a big job it was unloading all those lorries each carrying 100 to 150 sacks. As the sacks were unloaded, they were individually branded, wheeled into a shed and stacked up. These sacks reached up to the roof and the men doing...

Moa Persian clover seed grower John Redmond Moa Persian Clover is a top flowering cool season annual legume which performs well as a companion clover. It is later flowering than other Persian clovers, enabling the plant to produce higher quality vegetative feed longer into the growing season. We recommend sowing Maimai Ryecorn at 100 kg to the hectare and Moa Persian Clover...

Agronomist Jack Harnett with Intimidator Oats. A valuable catch-crop, Intimidator Oats have the ability to regrow after grassing, are frost tolerant and have higher protein levels than many other cereal. Financially, winter grazing of forage crops can be a good source of income, but it comes with environmental costs. Negative impacts which need to be considered and managed...

Seed Manager Chris Tyson We’d like to welcome Chris Tyson to his new position as our new Seed Manager at Luisetti Seeds. Chris will be stationed at the front desk and has taken over from the very long-serving Ken Townley who is now enjoying his third month of retirement. Chris worked in the agricultural sector for 14 years before moving into the seed industry. His last...

Our new premium two milling wheat, “Catherine”, was the stand-out performer in the Foundation for Arable Research’s (FAR) May-sown milling wheat Cultivar Performance Trials (CPT). The annual FAR CPT trials are a truly independent test of cereal cultivars. Grown under commercial conditions at different sites across Canterbury, the cereals are therefore tested in a range of...