
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...

Garden and Freezer Peas
Our garden and freezer pea contracts have been popular this year, but as is often the case, we have had some late requests for production from some of our overseas customers.
We are still looking for a few paddocks for both Rangiora and Ashburton delivery at harvest time.
With the outlook for barley softening, later paddocks intended for barley may well suit a paddock of peas,...
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...