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Luisetti Seeds are saving the trees
Pallets stacked at a landfill site
Millions of wooden pallets go to landfill each year. All too often, they are thrown away after only one use. Initiatives are kicking off all over New Zealand to keep pallets out of the landfill, and make fewer new pallets.
If it doesn’t sound like a big deal, think again! New Zealand manufactures and ships billions of single-use pallets annually – that’s...
IPM Pest Control in Fodder Brassicas
Understanding IPM and knowing your bugs, along with the selective insecticide Exirel®, can provide a lower cost, more sustainable Fodder brassica crop.
Luisetti Seeds agronomist Kerry Thomas uses a hand lens to monitor the crops and identify eggs of both pest and beneficial species, along with early juvenile stages, to help plan treatment application timing.
“IPM” stands for Integrated Pest...
Actively manage sub clover pastures for low-cost production gains
Ewes and lambs grazing Antas sub clover and Kakariki white clover, Banks Peninsula
Subterranean (sub) clover is important in summer dry pastures. It has high feed value for lactating ewes and lambs, fixes nitrogen (about 25 kg N/tonne of clover DM), and improves grass palatability. In unirrigated summer dry pastures, sub clover offers the greatest potential for maximising your spring...
Four Tips for a Great Lucerne Stand
Everett Thomas is an agronomist based in New York State. He has worked with Cornell University Cooperative Extension and the William Miner Agricultural Research Institute. He edits the Miner Institute’s Farm Report newsletter.
Reprinted with the kind permission of Agrimedia, New Zealand.
Article written by Everett Thomas (abridged)
LUCERNE IS TRULY ‘THE QUEEN OF FORAGE CROPS’, BUT CAREFUL...
United Wheat Growers National Wheat Growing Competition
Congratulations to our growers who were recently awarded prizes at the annual Wheat Growers awards. Luisetti Seeds varieties featured strongly with five different varieties being awarded prizes.
Of note were:
Slater Farms:
1st Premium Milling with Griffin (CRWT218)
Maw-KG Farming:
2nd Premium Milling with Reliance
Springwood Farm Ltd:
3rd Premium Milling with Duchess
Perry Farms:
4th Premium...
NEW SUB CLOVER VARIETIES IMPRESS
A 20 hectare hill country paddock established in February 2013 has produced a large amount of very useful winter feed for Matt Iremonger, Equity Manager of Mt Benger, North Canterbury.
The steep paddock was worked, then a mix containing Luisetti Seeds new sub clovers (Monti and Antas) as well as Huia white clover, ryegrass and cocksfoot were broadcast from a fixed wing aircraft before being...
GRUBOUT U2
New Grass Endophyte to be Released
Canterbury pasture plant breeding company Cropmark Seeds Ltd recently announced the release of a new endophyte GrubOUT® U2 a major advance in the fight against a multi-million dollar farming problem – insect pests.
Luisetti Seeds and Stapletons representatives visited a trial site at Darfield recently and we saw first hand the potential that Cropmark’s...
SOWING LUCERNE WITH ANDREW JOHNSTON
Andrew Johnston makes no apologies for being old-fashioned.
As one of eight field representatives at Luisetti Seeds, he is typically out in the field rather than in the office. He is on hand to inspect paddocks and help farmers with pasture renewal right from the very start, from selecting sites and cultivars through to grazing the feed.
One farming family that has a close relationship with...