Pasture & Cropping

Pioneer Lucerne delivers quality feed

Gareth Parkes is a man of few words – so he lets his farm results do the talking. Milking 330 cows on a 100 hectare (ha) milking platform at Linkwater in the Marlborough Sounds, Gareth’s comprehensive feeding system ensures his cows are performing to the best of their ability – an outstanding 500 kilograms of milksolids (kgMS) per cow.

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Top tips for autumn undersowing

As the season gets underway, some paddocks will be thinning or ‘opening up’ and requiring attention this autumn. To prioritise and plan for autumn undersowing, pasture condition scoring is recommended as a method of identifying and prioritising paddocks.

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The grass is looking greener for Ohakune dairy farmer Mike Hammond

Mike, who farms a herd of 210 on 100ha in the central North Island, is enjoying an improved bottom line and more days in milk after his Farm Source Technical Sales Representative helped him find a ryegrass that works well for his farm system.

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Tactical management of nitrogen

In autumn, there’s a focus on ensuring pasture covers and cow condition are at target levels ahead of winter, but it’s equally important to focus on how you achieve these to reduce potential nutrient losses during what is often a high-risk period of the year. Management decisions made in autumn impact the amount of nitrogen (N) loss that can occur from your farm. The risks linked to these management decisions are reported through your farm’s Environmental Report.

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Scoring pastures for renewal

Herbage testing is the only way to accurately assess levels of micronutrients important for production.

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Pasture seed sown, job done? Not yet!

You’ve sprayed out your paddocks and sown seed for new pasture – now it’s just a matter of sitting back and waiting for the grass to grow. Or is it?

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Feed your cashflow, keep milking

Changes in pasture quantity and quality over the summer months can lead to the age-old question; To dry off or not to dry off? There are several factors to consider when answering this question. Vanessa Lilly, Technical Sales Representative for SealesWinslow, highlights the key considerations for body condition score (BCS), milk production and supporting the bottom line.

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Proven Persistence in a Perennial Ryegrass

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Reduce Plastic Waste and Improve Silage Quality

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Planting today for a better tomorrow

How Plant for Good, by Farm Source and Wildlands, got Aotearoa Farms blooming.

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Farm Source Team Cultivates their Pasture and Forage Knowledge

Some of Farm Source’s team members had an invaluable look at where the lifecycle of clover begins with a trip to Barenbrug – a Canterbury plant breeding and research company that’s been part of New Zealand’s pastoral landscape for over 30 years.

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Building Pasture Resilience in Rai Valley

Rai Valley dairy farmer Mark Ring is looking to use Seed Force forages to develop a climatically resilient farm system that maximises milk production and minimises costs.

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Break Cropping Key to Pasture Renovation Success

For the last four years, Owl Farm has successfully utilised Cleancrop™ summer brassicas to provide quality summer feed and control weeds before the autumn establishment of new pastures.

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The Next Generation of Ryegrass

In Legion, Agricom have produced a very complete ryegrass that is suited to a wide range of farming systems. With its breeding originating from late heading ryegrasses that showed incredible persistence no matter where they grew, Legion has demonstrated good year round production no matter where in New Zealand you are based.

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Pasture Collaboration Pays off in Northland

After two dry years in a row, Northland contract milkers Keiren and Louise Errington were carefully planning ahead for their feed towards the end of 2020.

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