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Local knowledge helps Taranaki farmers maximise spring inputs
After a particularly wet winter, Taranaki farmers will be especially keen to get the most from their spring inputs. It’s a busy time of year and every decision counts, especially when it comes to pasture and cropping.
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Pasture & Cropping
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Proven, productive and persistent ryegrass
High performing farming systems need backing by a high performing perennial ryegrass.
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Barkant summer turnips yield top results
Tankard type summer turnips are popular as a milking feed due to their exceptional yield potential from a single graze. With good leaf to bulb ratio, both leaf and bulb are high quality feed.
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A farmer-friendly index for five-star performance
An index to help farmers choose the best-performing grasses for their dairying region has been developed by DairyNZ in conjunction with the New Zealand Plant Breeders Research Association (NZPBRA).
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Making the most of late planting
A wet spring can put pressure on farmers when forage crops are late going into the ground.
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Revamped design makes pasture management a walk in the paddock
Rising plate meters are not exactly new to many New Zealand dairy farmers. They are a valuable and widely adopted tool for calculating how much pasture is on your farm so you can plan your feed breaks and rotations effectively, and forecast your feed budget accurately.
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Helping Bay of Plenty farmers drive productivity this spring
Winter in the Bay of Plenty has been a tough one for farmers and townies alike. Floods and cyclones gave the region a real hammering and many in the community are still recovering from the impact.
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Capturing pasture potential with Shogun
Shogun tetraploid hybrid ryegrass has several outstanding performance characteristics, including record-breaking dry matter (DM) yield and a unique five-star rating in the DairyNZ Forage Value Index (FVI) for the 12-month forage type.
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Kaipara farmers optimise spring inputs with TSR support
Spring’s arrival will see Kaipara farmers getting on with planning and making sure they’re on track to reach their productivity goals. It’s a busy time of year and it’s easy to feel overwhelmed by choice when making decisions, particularly around pasture and cropping.
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Supporting Canterbury farmers with spring productivity decisions
As we head out of a winter that featured plenty of wild weather, farmers all over Canterbury are getting on with making key decisions and prepping for the busy months ahead.
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Understanding your options: Best practice management for brassicas
Summer and winter forage brassica crops are widely grown in New Zealand to supplement pastures. About 300,000 hectares (ha) are grown each year, making forage brassicas the largest annual crop type in New Zealand.
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Local knowledge helps Waikato farmers get the best from their spring inputs
Spring on-farm means all hands on deck. Throughout the Waikato, farmers are making key productivity decisions and weighing up options on everything from pasture, calving and cropping to agrichemicals and supplementary feed.
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Soverign kale continues providing flexible quality feed
When looking for a solid, traditional wintering system for dairy cows that was both cost-effective and suited their farming system, Mid Canterbury dairy farmers Chris and Amanda Atkinson turned to Sovereign kale.
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Robbos fodder beet key to efficient wintering at Murchison
Finding the right balance between stocking rate, cow performance and feed resources – not to mention finances – is not always easy. And when you only have 74ha to work with, efficient land use is a must.
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Chicory earns its place in Manawatu
Five years after the first crops were sown, 501 Chicory has become an essential part of seasonal feed supply for a highly productive equity partnership in the Manawatu.
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