FAR Focus 3: White Clover: A grower's guide

White clover (Trifolum repens) is a winter hardy, perennial legume that has the potential to produce very high livestock production. Cultivars are often classified by their leaf size. Large leaves are often associated with a more upright growth habit, have less stolons/m² and are more suited to lax grazing systems. Small leaved cultivars often have high numbers of stolons/m² and short growth habits, making them better suited to continuous grazing at high intensities. In the arable cropping rotation, white clover provides an excellent break crop for grass species with the potential to return moderate quantities of nitrogen to following arable crops.

Best Management Practices for Growing Maize on Dairy Farms

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Maize is a vital crop for many New Zealand dairy farmers; it also represents a significant investment in time and resources. This booklet aims to give farmers the tools that they need to extract maximum value from this investment, providing the most topical information on maize crop preparation, management and harvest, in one easy to access resource.

Crop and Livestock Gross Margins

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The bulk of the information is about the cost and returns (gross Margins) for a range of organic crop and livestock options in comparison with similar Gross Margins for conventional options.

Brough to you by a project team from Functional Whole Foods, Midland seeds, New Zealand Bio Grains Ltd and Timaru Concentrates.

FAR Focus 02: Cereal Growth Stages

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Cereal Growth Stages, Disease Management in Cereals

This edition of the FAR Focus has been produced in order to bring together work on disease management conducted in cereals over the last five years.

The booklet is designed to give growers greater confidence in identifying the important cereal growth stages and how they relate to the principles of disease management. The booklet is split into two sections: Cereal Growth Stages and Disease Management in Cereals.

FAR Focus 01 - Non Inversion Agronomy: Guidelines for successful reduced tillage

Non-inversion agronomy is the husbandry of growing crops without the use of the plough; it covers a number of establishment techniques that go under the “banner” of minimal tillage, no tillage, brodcasting and direct establishment. It is not just a description of establishment techniques, but covers how the subsequent agronomy is influenced by the method of establishment.

This booklet is split into seven sections which address the principal results and key points generated by a jointly funded MAF Sustainable Farming Fund/FAR project on non-inversion agronomy, as well as background data covering responses from the MAF SFF, FAR & Crop & Food Research New Zealand Cropping Sequence Survey conducted in October 2006.

Grass Weeds of Arable Groups - The Ute Guide

Making Peas Pay

The Drying and Storage of Grain and Herbage Seed

The Forage Trading and Development Group Folder and Insert

FAR Ringbinder

FAR Cultivar Evaluation Booklet

Diseases and Pests of Brassicas