Issue 215 Crop Action

Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.

Planting a crop consisting of multiple cereal cultivars (cultivar mixtures) enhances genetic diversity, which can improve both seasonal and long-term agronomic performance and slow or reduce disease spread. To assess the viability of this approach for feed wheat production under current commercial conditions in New Zealand, FAR conducted a series of field trials in Chertsey, Mid Canterbury, between 2021 and 2024.

Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.

This Maize Update discusses key issues for consideration in the choice and establishment of over-winter cover crops, along with the results of a five-year trial at FAR’s Northern Crops Research Site which researched the potential for over-winter cover crops to suppress weeds in the following no-till maize grain crop.

Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.

Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.

This FAR Focus on maize weed management covers research on issues maize growers currently face, including; Herbicide resistance, problem weeds, herbicide options and on-farm biosecurity. 

Read the booklet for the 2025 autumn round up series here. 

Crop Action keeps you up to date with arable crop development and actions right across New Zealand.