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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 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...

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...

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...

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...