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Legumes power Zino family’s farm operation
Subterranean clover helps drive exceptional pre-weaning lamb growth rates: Mark Zino with Luisetti Seeds North Canterbury agent Andrew Johnston in a lucerne paddock.
For the Zino family, subterranean clover is their competitive advantage.
It is this plant, that thrives on their farm’s silt loamy soils, that is the engine room of their business, driving lactation and lamb growth rates in that...
Legumes the answer to methane reduction
Professor Derrick Moot believes legumes could be the immediate answer to reducing methane emissions.
While scientists grapple with technologies to reduce methane emissions from livestock, Lincoln University’s Professor Derrick Moot believes a more immediate answer to methane reduction lies in legumes.
Speaking about a changing climate at the recent New Zealand Institute of Animal and...
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...