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Intimidator Oats-an ideal catch-crop
Catch-crops look set to become an important tool to mop-up nutrients in the wake of winter forage crops.
Environmental regulations are a reality for farmers throughout the country as Regional and Central Governments strive to meet water quality targets.
Winter feed crops have come under the regulatory spotlight as a source of nutrient and soil loss, but catch-crops look set to become an...
Familiar face in new agronomist role
Jack Harnett brings years of farming and seed industry experience to his new role.
After four years managing the Luisetti Seeds Ashburton store, Jack Harnett has hit the road and is servicing clients in the Mid Canterbury region.
Jack will be a familiar face to many of our farmers as he has lived and worked in the region all his life. He brings to his new role 18 years of hands-on farming...
New Bean Cultivars under Trial
Luisetti cultivar ‘Goldilocks’
Luisetti Seeds has been trialling new bean cultivars that may have an advantage over the cultivars currently used in the New Zealand frozen vegetable industry.
The trials, which were located at Leeston in a paddock of green beans, were harvested for the Heinz Wattie factory at Hornby.
The green and yellow cultivars were assessed in the field for yield, disease...
Winter lucerne management optimizes spring production
Addressing weed and nutrient issues in lucerne stands now will ensure a clean, healthy, high-quality forage crop in spring.
Andrew Johnston from Luisetti Seeds says stands should be grazed hard in May (he suggests using high body condition score ewes or dry hoggets), removing all green plant material and as much dead organic matter at the base of the crop as possible – as this can harbour...
Beeting it
High yielding and palatable, fodder beet crops give farmers the ability to winter a large number of stock within a small area and free up pasture on other parts of the farm.
This benefits the whole farm system.
There are a number of varieties of fodder beet available and farmers should be selecting the varieties that best meet the needs of their livestock. For example, some fodder beets are...
Setting legumes up for spring
Attention to the management of forage legumes now will pay dividends in spring when high-quality feed is required to realise the potential of next season’s lamb crop.
Professor Derrick Moot from Lincoln University says autumn rains may have germinated subterranean (sub) clover seedlings in dryland pastures along the east coast, but management of these seedlings will depend on how...
Oat catch-crop benefits bottom-line and environment
Capturing the nitrogen accumulated in the soil in the wake of winter grazing, and using it to grow high-quality feed in spring, is good for business and the environment.
Early results from the first year of a Ministry of Primary Industries Sustainable Farming Fund (SFF) project, which is looking at using catch crops to mitigate nitrate (N) leaching during winter forage grazing, has shown that...
Autumn-sown Fortitude barley offers flexibility and yield advantages
Our aptly-named Fortitude barley is proving to be a solid performer with growers valuing its ability to resist scald and produce good test weights and bushel weights.
This was reinforced in Fortitude’s results in the latest Foundation for Arable Research’s Cultivar Performance Trials where the barley’s yield across two Canterbury sites (Rakaia under irrigation and St Andrew’s dryland) exceeded...
The MCG Luisetti Seed connection
The perfect New Zealand Turf ryegrass pitch gives bowlers an edge.Photograph by Martin Hunter
The Boxing Day test at the Melbourne Cricket Ground (MCG) is an entrenched and sacred part of Australian life. This iconic test match attracts a viewing audience of millions, many likely to be recovering from the previous day’s excesses.
The pitch and field have to be perfect, so it only seems natural...
Catherine shines in performance trials
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 climates and soil...