
High Yielding Max Forage Peas Prove Ideal in Combination Crops
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 Pea’s pod-fill...

Forage Crops Provide Valuable Bulk and Quality Feed in Winter and Spring
On-going dry weather could mean tight feed supplies this year, so a forage crop which generates high quality feed in winter and spring will be invaluable for maintaining stock performance.
A crop of Intimidator forage oats or Maimai ryecorn undersown with an annual clover such as Moa persian clover will ensure stock get a good bulk feed over the winter months and a high ME legume to meet the...

Lucerne cultivars for specific situations
Often regarded as the King of Forages, lucerne is valued for its ability to generate high quality drymatter, particularly in dryland environments.
Spring is the traditional sowing season for lucerne and Andrew Johnston from Luisetti Seeds recommends growers consider soil type and fertility, ground preparation, farm management and climate before planting.
All of these factors, he says, will...
Forage peas offer feed quality and versatility as forage crops
John McCaw ( six foot in his slippers) stands in a paddock of Provider Peas at Sheffield.
Forage peas are versatile crops which can be grown on their own or partnered with a forage cereal to produce high yielding and high feed-quality cereal silage.
Sown on their own, forage peas can yield up to 18 tonnes of dry matter per hectare and when sown in a cereal combination, forage peas have the...

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...
Luisetti Seeds Congratulates Miss Canterbury Best Shorn Ewe Hogget
Congratulations to Dick Frahm of Oxford, who won Miss Canterbury Best Shorn Ewe Hogget at the New Zealand Agricultural show!
Dick and Ann Frahm took home the red ribbon with their Poll Dorset ewe hogget. Their winning ewe was credited as being “outstanding for her breed” – a glowing commendation for their breeding efforts! Only the top six sheep on the day are eligible for the Miss...
Now There’s a Paddock of Swedes!
Ken Townley of Luisetti Seeds struggles to lift swedes grown by Jonathan Austin, Aroha Downs, Oxford
Ken fails to dislodge a particularly large swede with a swift kick.
Jonathan Austin has been growing swedes as a winter feed for a number of years at Aroha Downs, Viewhill, Oxford. The swedes are break fed to cattle during the winter.
Swede paddocks at Aroha Downs are conventionally worked...