
Gaynor Hurford Retires
Gaynor holds a Hamish Allan print that illustrates the retirement she is looking forward to! Gaynor’s husband, Brendon, has recently completed building a clinker dingy very similar to the one in the picture!
Popular staff member, Gaynor Hurford, has retired from her office support role after a 12 year stint at Luisetti Seeds Rangiora. Gaynor’s responsibilities included accounts...

Head Roguer Appears in Court
Colleen Luisetti and John Sandston outside the Nelson High Court after Colleen’s admission to the bar.
Colleen Luisetti, former Luisetti Seeds Head Roguer, has appeared in the Nelson High Court on the occasion of her admission to the High Court of New Zealand by the Honourable Justice Simon France. Colleen, who worked in her school and university holidays for Luisetti Seeds had her...

Proud to be Kiwi
In these challenging times, it has been heartening to see how New Zealanders have pulled together. As one of the few remaining 100% New Zealand-owned seed businesses, Luisetti Seeds is proud to be part of Team New Zealand.
It seems fitting that May 14 marked the 25th anniversary of the yachting Team New Zealand’s maiden America’s Cup win and once again, a team of now 5 million people have...

Double Shifts Over Lock Down
Luisetti Seeds has continued to function as normally as possible over the lock down period. Our Rangiora and Ashburton sites remain isolated from each other (no staff member may travel between sites). Both sites continue to work a double shift with no contact between the shifts and decontamination between each shift.
Agronomists continue to visit clients’ crops in isolation and make crop...

We’re Heading for the Clouds
Luisetti Seeds are delighted to announce that we will be moving our accounting system to the cloud-based package Xero this year.
We will then be able to send invoices, statements and the Grain of Truth straight to your inbox, another little step to help the planet!
If we are not sending your invoices to you electronically already, please contact us with your email address so we can update our...

Delivering the Goods
The addition of a new van to the Luisetti Seeds’ fleet of vehicles will mean increased capability for the delivery of agrichemicals to our clients.
These vans have been modified slightly for the transport of chemicals and we are lucky to have two very capable drivers operating them.
Cameron Lepper joined the Rangiora-based Luisetti Seeds’ team at the end of November and while he jokes that he...

Our new New Zealander
Scott Ammerman with Ashburton Mayor Donna Faval at his Citizenship ceremony.
A desire for a new life brought Scott Ammerman to our shores over eight years ago and on June 20, the US citizen officially became a Kiwi.
Scott, who is the Processing Supervisor at Luisetti Seeds Ashburton, says he sold his home in Northern Indiana, along with his possessions and arrived in Auckland with a...

Quicker turnaround for custom treating with plant refurbishment
The Luisetti Seeds Engineering Department took advantage of the quieter winter months to refurbish the Gaucho treating and mixing plants.
The newly designed plant will offer quicker turn around for our client’s custom treating requirements.
Particular care has been taken to ensure a complete clean out of the plant is possible to eliminate contamination between mixes.

Join our team! Are you our new Ashburton Machine Operator?
MACHINE OPERATOR
We are accepting applications for the role of Machine Operator at our Ashburton site on an ongoing basis.
Luisetti Seeds is a significant provider of grain and seed, both nationally and internationally. Through research, integrity, and the talents of our staff, we aim to become the best and most trusted provider of grain and seed products and services in NZ.
Your key...

Join our team! Are you our new Ashburton Store Person?
STORE PERSON
We are accepting applications for the role of Store Person at our Ashburton site on an ongoing basis.
Luisetti Seeds is a significant provider of grain and seed, both nationally and internationally. Through research, integrity, and the talents of our staff, we aim to become the best and most trusted provider of grain and seed products and services in NZ.
Your key...