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Forage Maize is a high-performance summer greenfeed maize blend developed for New Zealand farming systems. It combines several maize hybrids of varying maturities to deliver rapid establishment, high dry matter yield, and excellent feed value for dairy, beef, and deer operations.
Although not designed for ensiling as a dedicated silage maize, Forage Maize excels as a grazing or cut-and-carry crop, providing reliable, high-energy summer feed during periods of limited pasture growth.
Sowing Rate: 30-35kg per hectare
Key benefits
- Blend of Hybrids: Includes multiple maize maturities for season-long growth and yield stability.
- Rapid Establishment: Strong early vigour and reliable stand establishment under variable moisture conditions.
- High Dry Matter Yields: Typically produces 10–18 t DM/ha under good management.
- Deep Root System: Accesses subsoil moisture and nutrients, providing drought resilience.
- High Feed Quality: Leafy, palatable forage with excellent energy content for all livestock classes.
- Flexible Use: Suited to grazing or cut-and-carry systems.
Linseed is a versatile cool-season annual crop grown for its high-value oilseed and soil health benefits. It is increasingly used in New Zealand farming systems for rotation diversity, soil structure improvement, and as a valuable break crop between cereals and pasture.
With its fine fibrous roots, Linseed enhances soil tilth, reduces compaction, and improves moisture retention. Its short, fast-growing cycle also makes it suitable for mixed forage or cover crop programs
Sowing Rate: 2-4kg per hectare
Key benefits
- Fast Growth Cycle: Matures in 90–120 days depending on conditions.
- Deep, Fine Root System: Improves soil structure and water infiltration.
- Break Crop Benefits: Reduces cereal disease pressure and improves rotation diversity.
- Drought Tolerant: Performs well in low to moderate rainfall areas.
Kaituna Lucerne is a New Zealand-bred lucerne variety developed for strong persistence, disease resistance, and adaptability across a wide range of farming systems. With its semi-winter-active (dormancy 5) growth habit, Kaituna balances excellent summer and autumn production with reliable winter activity, making it a versatile performer under both irrigated and dryland conditions.
| Persistence | Up to 5 years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
12-16kg per hectare |
- Dormancy Rating: 5 (semi-winter active) — provides strong summer growth with moderate winter activity.
- High Feed Quality: ME 11–12 MJ/kg DM and 20–24% crude protein.
- Fine Stems and Dense Leaf Structure: Improves hay quality and palatability.
- Excellent Disease Resistance: Strong tolerance to root and crown diseases for extended stand life.
- High Yield Potential: Consistent annual dry matter production in most environments.
- Deep Root System: Excellent drought resistance and nutrient uptake from subsoil layers.
Rival Turnip is a fast-growing, high-yielding summer turnip bred for early feed and excellent palatability. It produces a balanced combination of leafy top growth and white-fleshed bulbs, making it a reliable option for summer and early autumn grazing.
| Persistence | Up to 3 months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-3kg per hectare |
- 60-90 Days until maturity.
- Fast Feed Supply: Ideal for summer and early autumn grazing when pastures slow down.
- Excellent Animal Performance: High-energy, palatable feed supports fast growth rates.
- Flexible Use: Suitable for direct grazing or as a short-term break crop before regrassing.
- Low Waste: Sweet, soft bulbs and leafy tops ensure high utilisation.
Hunter Leafy Turnip is a fast-growing, high-quality forage brassica bred in New Zealand to deliver rapid feed, excellent regrowth, and top animal performance. It combines the quick establishment of a turnip with the regrowth ability of forage rape, providing a flexible, multi-graze crop ideal for summer, autumn, and early winter feeding.
Hunter is renowned for its leafy, palatable canopy, high energy content, and ability to perform under dry, warm conditions
| Persistence | Up to 6 months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
4kg per hectare |
- Quick Feed Supply: Perfect for filling feed gaps or boosting summer and autumn growth.
- Multi-Graze Capability: Regrowth after grazing extends feed availability and crop value.
- High Stock Utilisation: Soft leaves and excellent palatability minimise waste.
- Supports Top Animal Performance: Energy-dense feed promotes strong growth and condition.
- Adaptable to Most Systems: Performs well in both dryland and irrigated environments.
- Ideal Break Crop: Excellent option between pasture rotations for soil renewal.
- Fast Establishment: Produces grazeable feed within 6–8 weeks of sowing.
Goliath Rape is a high-yielding, large-leaved forage rape bred in New Zealand for outstanding regrowth potential, feed quality, and flexibility. It’s a hybrid cross between kale and turnip, combining kale’s persistence and yield with turnip’s rapid establishment and palatability.
Goliath provides excellent summer, autumn, and early winter feed, making it one of the most popular choices for farmers needing a multi-graze, high-energy brassica that performs under a wide range of conditions. 90–110 days until grazing.
| Persistence | Up to 9 months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
4kg per hectare |
- Reliable Summer and Autumn Feed: Maintains growth and feed value through warm, dry periods.
- Multiple Grazings Improve Value: Strong regrowth after grazing increases overall yield and feed efficiency.
- Boosts Animal Performance: Leafy, digestible feed promotes rapid weight gain and high intake.
- Versatile Cropping Option: Works well in feed rotations, pasture renewal programmes, or as a short-term stand-alone crop.
- Excellent Palatability: Readily grazed by all livestock classes with minimal waste
Portland Kale is a high-yielding, winter-hardy forage kale bred for excellent stock performance and reliability across New Zealand conditions. It’s ideal for late autumn and winter feeding, providing a dense, high-quality feed source for dairy, beef, and sheep operations.
it is a medium stem variety with 150-200 days until grazing.
Sowing Rate: 5kg per hectare
Key benefits
- Reliable Winter Feed Source: Provides consistent, high-energy feed during the critical feed gap period.
- Supports Stock Condition: Ideal for wintering dairy cows, beef cattle, and ewes prior to lambing.
- Efficient Land Use: Delivers excellent dry matter production per hectare for low input cost.
- Resilient and Easy to Manage: Handles a wide range of soils and climates, and suits strip or break grazing.
- Improves Feed Planning: Can be integrated with follow-up crops or reseeding programmes for spring.
Chico Chicory is a proven, fast-establishing perennial herb that provides high-quality feed through spring, summer and autumn. Bred for persistence and reliability, it has been widely used across New Zealand farms for decades.
Chico’s deep taproot allows it to perform exceptionally well in dry or summer-stressed conditions, while its high feed value and palatability make it ideal for finishing lambs, growing beef cattle, and boosting milk production in dairy systems
| Persistence | Up to 2 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
- High Feed Quality: Excellent energy and protein levels, supporting top animal performance.
- Deep Taproot: Draws moisture and nutrients from subsoils, providing drought resilience and strong summer growth.
- Proven Performer: One of New Zealand’s most widely sown chicory cultivars, recognised for dependability and regrowth.
- Excellent Palatability: Livestock graze Chico readily, maintaining high utilisation even under hot conditions.
- Nutrient-Rich: High in trace elements such as calcium, magnesium, copper and zinc - ideal for supporting stock health.
Choice Chicory is a high-quality perennial herb bred in New Zealand for superior animal performance, persistence, and adaptability across a wide range of farming systems. It produces exceptional summer and autumn growth, providing highly palatable, nutrient-dense forage that supports animal health, weight gain, and milk production.
Sargent’s strong root system gives it excellent drought tolerance and regrowth ability, making it a valuable component in both finishing and dairy systems.
We recommend grazing when the Chicory is around 15-20cm high so the tap root is well established to prevent pulling.
| Persistence | Up to 2 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
- High Feed Quality: Rich in energy, protein, and minerals - ideal for lamb finishing, beef weight gain, and milk solids production.
- Deep Taproot: Accesses subsoil moisture and nutrients, allowing strong performance during summer dry conditions.
- Persistent and Productive: Bred for improved longevity and regrowth compared to older chicory varieties.
- Fast Establishment: Quick to germinate and reach grazing height, ideal for spring or early autumn sowing.
- Improves Animal Health: Naturally high in trace elements (calcium, magnesium, copper, and zinc) and has anthelmintic properties that can reduce internal parasite burdens.
- Flexible Use: Can be sown as a pure stand, in a short-rotation herb mix, or as part of a long-term perennial pasture blend.
Sainfoin is a deep-rooted perennial legume renowned for its high feed quality, natural bloat safety, and strong drought tolerance. It provides a valuable source of high-protein forage while improving soil structure and nitrogen levels.
Originally used as a traditional hay and grazing crop in dry climates, Sainfoin is regaining interest in modern pasture systems as a sustainable, animal-friendly alternative to lucerne and clovers. It’s particularly suited to sheep, beef, and deer operations where bloat risk or dry conditions are concerns
| Persistence | Up to 5 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
6-12kg per hectare in a mix |
- Deep Taproot System: Accesses subsoil moisture and breaks up compaction for improved soil aeration.
- Bloat-Safe Legume: Naturally non-bloating due to condensed tannins that protect livestock digestive health.
- Palatable and Nutritious: Livestock readily graze both leaf and stem material.
- Nitrogen Fixation: Enhances soil fertility and reduces dependence on synthetic nitrogen inputs.
- Pollinator Friendly: Attractive to bees and beneficial insects, supporting ecosystem health.
Spineless Burr Medic is a winter-growing annual legume valued for its ability to thrive in dryland, lighter-soil, or lower-fertility environments where other legumes often fail. It establishes quickly, produces high-quality feed through winter and spring, and contributes significant nitrogen to companion grasses and subsequent crops.
Its burrs are spineless, making it safe for livestock and easy to manage compared to traditional burr medic types.
| Persistence | Up to 9 months, unless it self seeds |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-3kg per hectare in a mix |
- Rapid Establishment: Quick germination and early growth, even under cooler conditions.
- Excellent Self-Regeneration: Builds a persistent seed bank that allows re-establishment for multiple years.
- Drought Tolerant: Performs strongly in low rainfall or summer-dry conditions due to deep taproot.
- Good Feed Quality: High digestibility and protein levels ideal for finishing lambs and supporting winter growth.
- Effective Nitrogen Fixer: Improves soil fertility and supports companion species in mixed pastures.
Sheep's Burnett (Salad Burnet) is a hardy, stoloniferous perennial herb suited to pasture mixes for added diversity, surface cover and forage value. It performs well in temperate conditions, including on well-drained or lower-fertility soils, and can provide a long-term ground-cover component in mixed pastures.
| Persistence | Up to 5 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-3kg per hectare in a mix |
- Enhances pasture stability by providing an additional species / herb component for improved cover and less bare ground.
- Supports animal performance by offering a different forage type, which may improve intake and diet variety.
- Contributes to long-term pasture health: improved structure, diversity and resilience to stress (dry, grazing) when mixed with grasses and clovers.
- Particularly useful in mixes where herbs are desired to complement grasses and legumes rather than as a single major species.
Crimson Clover is a fast-establishing annual legume valued for its high nitrogen-fixing ability, rapid biomass production, and versatility in short-term pasture or fodder rotations. It has an upright growth habit, deep root structure and is particularly suited for autumn sowing in New Zealand, supporting early spring feed and soil fertility build.
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
- Delivers rapid feed onset for grazing or cutting systems, helping bridge seasonal feed gaps (especially late winter to spring).
- Boosts pasture productivity and soil health by fixing atmospheric nitrogen and improving companion grass growth.
- Provides versatility: ideal either as part of a mix or as a short-term boost pasture component.
- Supports sustainable farming by reducing reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertilisers and improving overall pasture resilience
Subterranean clover is an annual-legume uniquely suited to dry, summer-stress and low-input pasture systems in New Zealand. It grows through autumn, winter and spring, then sets seed in early summer and dies. It is specially valuable in areas where perennial clovers struggle with summer dryness
| Persistence | 1 year+ if it is able to self seed |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
4-6kg per hectare in a mix |
- Enhances pasture productivity and animal performance in dryland systems where other legumes fail.
- Contributes nitrogen to the pasture system, helping companion grasses grow better and improving overall sward quality.
- Cost-effective legume option in marginal or hill country pastures, due to its self-reseed ability and adaptation to tough conditions.
- Helps diversify pastures, reduce risk of legume failure and support resilient pasture systems.
Balansa Clover is a high-performing annual legume adapted to New Zealand conditions. It’s especially suited for autumn sowing, wet or heavy soils, and for producing large volumes of high-quality feed in late winter and spring. It naturally reseeds under favourable conditions, giving excellent flexibility for rotational or short-term pasture systems.
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
- Adds nitrogen to pasture systems, boosting companion grass growth and reducing fertiliser reliance.
- Performs where conventional legumes struggle (e.g., heavy soils or wetter zones), improving paddock productivity.
- Its capacity to self-reseed offers cost-effective pasture renewal or alternative to full re-sowing in appropriate conditions.
- Highly palatable forage supports livestock growth, making it valuable in sheep, beef and mixed systems.
Arrowleaf Clover is a winter/early-spring annual legume known for high-quality feed and strong nitrogen-fixing ability. With its large leaflets and upright growth habit, it delivers excellent palatability and digestibility, making it a strategic choice for grazing or cut-and-carry systems.
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
3-6kg per hectare in a mix |
- Provides high-quality feed early in the season, supporting livestock performance when pasture growth is limited.
- Helps reduce fertiliser nitrogen inputs by fixing nitrogen naturally, improving overall pasture fertility.
- Helps bridge the feed gap in spring when other species may have matured or slowed.
- Works well as a strategic component in crop-pasture rotations or short-term renewal swards.
Persian Clover is a fast-growing annual legume that delivers high-quality feed through late winter and spring and can be used for grazing, hay or silage production. It is particularly suited to soils and environments where traditional perennial clovers may struggle, including wetter soils or crop-break situations
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
3-6kg per hectare in a mix |
- Delivers quality feed when needed: Supports stock growth in late winter/early spring periods when feed supply is often limited.
- Helps improve soil fertility: As a legume, it fixes nitrogen and supports companion grass growth.
- Offers versatility: Usable for grazing, hay, silage or as part of a pasture renewal strategy.
- Suitable for challenging paddocks: Works well in wetter soils, soils with lower fertility or as part of a crop-pasture rotation.
Hillary Fescue is a deep-rooted perennial fescue grass cultivar developed for New Zealand conditions. It establishes more slowly than many ryegrasses, but once its root system is established it performs particularly well in summer-dry environments and under grazing pressure.
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
10-20kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date | Early |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Offers reliable pasture performance in areas where other grasses may struggle during summer dryness.
- Provides quality feed rather than just bulk, which supports more efficient animal grazing and utilisation.
- Adds longevity and resilience to a pasture mix, reducing the risk of bare ground under drought or summer stress.
- Its compatibility with legumes and herbs helps build a diverse, balanced sward rather than a single-species stand.
Kahu Timothy is a New Zealand-bred perennial timothy cultivar known for its nutrient richness and excellent feed quality. It is especially suited for moist, fertile soils, silage and hay production, and grazing systems where high-quality forage is desired.
| Persistence | 3-5 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
1-2kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Provides premium feed quality for systems aiming for high animal intake, milk production or weight gain.
- Extends the seasonal feed window thanks to the late heading and prolonged leaf phase.
- Ideal for silage/hay production where feed conservation and quality matter.
- Good option for pastures on fertile, moist soils where other grasses may reach maturity faster.
- Suitable for livestock systems that prioritise quality over sheer quantity or rapid turnover.
Savvy Cocksfoot is a high-yielding, very productive perennial cocksfoot cultivar developed for New Zealand dryland and summer-stress environments. It is characterised by soft leaves, long leaf length, and a significantly reduced seed-head production under grazing (low aftermath heading) - meaning it stays leafy and palatable longer.
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
2-3kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Excellent autumn and winter production with strong spring and summer growth in dryland or heat-stress conditions.
- Soft, leafy growth habit with a long leaf length and tiller structure well-suited for cattle and sheep grazing.
- Low seed-head development under grazing, improving palatability and feed utilisation.
- Strong disease tolerance and good performance in lower fertility soils.
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We are a family-based business that lives and breathes farming. In 1937, we purchased our first family property for growing seed crops in North Canterbury. Four generations and 86 years later in 2023, we are still immersed in the industry.
We are a family-based business that lives and breathes farming. In 1937, we purchased our first family property for growing seed crops in North Canterbury. Four generations and 86 years later in 2023, we are still immersed in the industry.
