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An award-winning team with the Luisetti Seeds Paddock of the Year Trophy. From left Lachie Adams, Graeme Adams, Shane King (Luisetti Seeds Agronomist) and Virginia Adams.     Just as it takes a village to raise a child, it takes a team of skilled individuals to grow an award-winning crop of turf ryegrass. This was the graciousness with which Graeme and Virginia...

It’s not often that over 2000 people gather at the Ellesmere Rugby grounds on a cold, wintery Saturday afternoon to watch the local Southbridge team play West Melton. But not many players have the pulling power of former All Black and World Cup hero Dan Carter. Dan, who recently signed with the Auckland Blues, returned to his home ground on Saturday, 4 July to catch up with...

For thousands of years, white doves have been the symbol of new beginnings, peace, fidelity, love, luck and prosperity. Pertinently, 30 were released at this year’s ANZAC service held during lockdown at the Rangiora Cenotaph and these birds belonged to Luisetti Seeds’ staff member Tony Hyde. Tony’s white pigeons are becoming increasingly popular for releasing at weddings,...

Forage peas are becoming increasingly popular as a high quality, high protein supplementary feed for livestock either as a pure crop or in combination with cereal based forages. Luisetti Seeds has recently launched its new Max Forage Pea cultivar, that offers growers higher yields and better feed quality than its predecessors. As a much later flowering cultivar, the Max...

With a new name but a proven track record, Buttress spring sown barley’s on-farm performance is reflecting the cultivar’s outstanding results in four years of Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) trials. This is the second year Springston grower Chris Morrish has grown Buttress (formerly CRBA148) feed barley and once again he found it an easy crop to grow, with just a...