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FAR Focus 16 - Cocksfoot seed production
This FAR Focus outlines the key practices required to grow cocksfoot seed crops, covering topics such as crop establishment, nutrient requirements, crop management and harvesting. Topics outside the scope of this booklet include emissions profiles and off-farm considerations such as seed cleaning etc....
North Island cereals and seed management field day booklet
Missed the 2024 North Island cereals and seed management field days, catch up on the booklet here. ...
Late spring cereals and seed management field day booklet
Check out the booklet for the 2024 late spring cereals and seed field days....
Oilseed O1: Oil seed rape management
Pure Oil NZ and FAR are collaborating to monitor oilseed rape (OSR) paddocks to identify strategies to improve yields. Their work has identified that many growers could reduce the amount of nitrogen applied to OSR crops without impacting on yield or profit....
Spring field events booklet
Read the booklet from our September 2024 spring field events here. ...
Spring ryegrass management
This handout covers herbicide resistance management, PGRs, nitrogen and disease management....
Making good irrigation decisions / value of soil moisture monitoring
Moisture probes are a valuable tool for managing the timing and application rate of irrigation, particularly for determining when to start and finish the irrigation season or following rainfall and for when drought intensities increase at unexpected rates. Read more below....
Profitable process and seed pea production booklet
If you missed our recent pea field day at our Chertsey research site check out the booklet here....
H77 Blind seed disease management in ryegrass seed crops
FAR carried out a number of studies in the 2000s to investigate the effect of various fungicides on the incidence of blind seed disease and on fungal endophyte transmission. This publication summarises those studies, which are still relevant, and updates the list of fungicides registered in New Zealand for blind seed disease control....
Ryegrass and cereals 3: Spring management for cereals and seed crops booklet
In case you missed our latest spring field days check out the booklets here....