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Venus Lucerne is a proven, high-performing Australian-bred variety selected for persistence, versatility, and feed quality under New Zealand conditions. With a semi-winter-active dormancy rating (5), Venus delivers an ideal balance between strong summer and autumn growth and dependable winter activity.
Its fine stems, dense leafy structure, and excellent disease tolerance make it a popular choice for farmers wanting a reliable lucerne that performs across a wide range of soil types and environments. Venus suits both grazing and conserved feed systems, offering consistent yields and exceptional forage quality year after year.
| Persistence | Up to 5 years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
12-16kg per hectare |
- Persistent Performer: Long stand life supported by disease tolerance and robust crowns.
- Excellent Animal Performance: High energy and protein levels for improved milk and meat production.
- Drought Resilient: Deep roots maintain growth and quality during dry conditions.
- Soil Health Improvement: Fixes nitrogen naturally, reducing fertiliser costs and enhancing soil fertility.
- Flexible Use: Suitable for grazing, hay, and silage, allowing management to match seasonal feed demands.
- Reliable Across Conditions: Proven performance across varying New Zealand climates and soil types
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
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.
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.
Lotus is a deep-rooted, perennial legume well adapted to acidic, low-fertility, or poorly drained soils where traditional clovers and lucerne struggle to persist. It produces high-quality forage with excellent palatability and moderate tannin content, which can help reduce bloat in grazing systems. Lotus is especially suited for hill country, wet flats, and cooler regions, providing a reliable, high-protein feed option for sheep, beef, and deer systems.
We recommend not over-grazing. No less than 7-10cm
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-3kg per hectare in a mix |
- Tolerant of Wet & Acidic Soils: Performs well in soils with lower pH or periodic waterlogging - ideal for challenging paddocks.
- Deep Root System: Accesses subsoil moisture and nutrients, supporting growth during dry conditions.
- Moderate Condensed Tannins: Reduces bloat risk and improves protein utilisation efficiency in livestock.
- Long-Lived Perennial: Maintains persistence where many other legumes thin out over time.
- Good Winter Activity: Provides quality feed in cooler months when other legumes are less active.
- Excellent Feed Quality: High digestibility and energy levels, suitable for finishing stock and dairy systems.
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.
Sargent 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.
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.
Multileaf ML99 Lucerne is a premium lucerne (alfalfa) variety bred for exceptional leaf density, persistence, and feed quality. Designed for New Zealand conditions, ML99 offers a robust, high-performing legume option for farmers looking to improve pasture productivity, animal health, and long-term profitability. Its superior leaf-to-stem ratio delivers excellent palatability and high protein content, making it ideal for grazing or hay/silage production.
| Persistence | Up to 5 years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
12-16kg per hectare |
- High Leaf Density: Exceptional multileaf trait ensures a high proportion of leaves for better feed value and digestibility.
- Strong Disease Resistance: Resistant to common lucerne diseases such as crown rot and anthracnose, ensuring longevity.
- Excellent Regrowth: Rapid recovery after grazing or cutting for consistent production.
- Deep Root System: Provides excellent drought tolerance and nutrient access.
- Winter Activity: Moderate to high winter activity for extended growing seasons. With a Domancy rating of 10.
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.
Tonic Plantain is one of New Zealand’s most widely used and proven pasture herbs. Bred by AgResearch, it delivers exceptional feed quality, strong seasonal growth, and outstanding animal performance across sheep, beef, and dairy systems.
Tonic provides highly palatable, mineral-rich forage that maintains growth through dry conditions, making it a key component in both specialist finishing systems and long-term mixed pastures.
| Persistence | Up to 4 years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-2kg per hectare in a mix |
- Extends Feed Supply: Provides high-quality feed during late spring, summer, and autumn when ryegrass slows.
- Enhances Animal Health: Supports mineral balance and rumen function; bioactive compounds may reduce internal parasite impacts.
- Complements Clover & Grass Pastures: Adds diversity and resilience to ryegrass-clover systems.
- Improves Soil & Water Use Efficiency: Deep root system captures nutrients and water from lower soil profiles.
Drover Plantain is a proven New Zealand-bred broad-leaf herb designed for consistent performance and persistence across a wide range of farming systems. It provides high-quality, mineral-rich feed with excellent palatability and digestibility — making it ideal for finishing lambs, beef cattle, and supporting milk solids production in dairy herds.
With deep, fibrous roots and strong summer activity, Drover offers excellent drought tolerance and regrowth, helping bridge feed gaps when grasses slow down.
| Persistence | Up to 4 years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-2kg per hectare in a mix |
- High Feed Quality: Excellent energy, digestibility, and mineral content (especially calcium, magnesium, copper, and selenium).
- Deep Root System: Draws moisture and nutrients from deeper soil layers, maintaining production in dry conditions.
- Fast Establishment: Germinates quickly and reaches grazing height within 8–10 weeks of sowing.
- Improves Animal Health: Contains plant bio-actives that may help reduce internal parasite burdens and improve rumen efficiency.
- Flexible Integration: Performs well as a stand-alone crop, herb mix, or component of long-term perennial pastures.
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.
Berseem Clover is a fast-establishing annual legume that excels in warm soils and provides quality forage and nitrogen fixation within a single season. It is particularly suited for grazing, green manure use, and short-term forage rotations. In New Zealand conditions it works well as a seasonal legume for late winter/early spring grazing or cutting, and in situations where rapid ground cover and nitrogen input are required.
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
- Provides high-quality feed in seasons when perennial pastures may be slower -- supporting livestock growth or production.
- Improves soil fertility and nitrogen reserves, reducing reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
- Offers flexibility in pasture or crop rotation systems - useful for rejuvenation, short-term forage or strategic sowing.
- Offers flexibility in pasture or crop rotation systems — useful for rejuvenation, short-term forage or strategic sowing.
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.
Strawberry Clover is a hardy, stoloniferous perennial legume that thrives in wet, saline, or heavy soils where traditional white clovers may struggle. Known for its adaptability and tolerance to challenging conditions, Strawberry Clover is an excellent option for low-lying, coastal, or periodically waterlogged paddocks.
It provides reliable feed production, strong nitrogen fixation, and long-term persistence, making it an ideal choice for both pasture improvement and soil restoration.
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
- Performs Where Others Fail: Ideal for coastal flats, heavy clay soils, and periodically flooded areas.
- Improves Soil Health: Enhances structure, fertility, and biological activity in marginal or compacted paddocks.
- Supports Sustainable Pastures: Provides natural nitrogen and helps reclaim low-fertility or saline soils.
- Reduces Weeds and Bare Ground: Dense stolon growth creates strong soil cover and erosion protection.
- Flexible Use: Suitable for grazing, hay, or inclusion in diverse pasture mixes for improved resilience.
Hamua Red Clover is a high-yielding, locally bred New Zealand red clover known for its strong performance in both grazing and conservation systems. It delivers exceptional dry matter yields, excellent regrowth, and high feed quality throughout spring, summer, and autumn. Hamua is well suited to cut-and-carry, silage, or rotational grazing, offering a balance of productivity and persistence in a wide range of condition
| Persistence | Up to 4 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-3kg per hectare in a mix |
- High Yielding: Consistently produces large volumes of quality feed in mixed or specialist pastures.
- Strong Regrowth: Rapid recovery after cutting or grazing allows for multiple harvests each season.
- Erect Growth Habit: Tall, upright plant structure ideal for silage and hay production.
- Excellent Feed Quality: High protein and energy levels support fast animal growth and milk production.
- Nitrogen Fixing: Fixes significant nitrogen, improving soil fertility and supporting companion grasses.
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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.
