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The do’s and don’t’s when moving from ‘Grass 2 Crop’


Media Releases • 16 May 2012

Front cover image5FAR launches FAR Focus 5 – ‘Grass 2 Crop’, a one stop shop demonstating the most effective ways of harnessing key benefits of the grass phase for the successive cropping phase.

For cropping farmers, minimising the release of nutrients to the ground water and maximising soil carbon retention is paramount to productivity and profitability; this three...

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FAR Focus 5: Grass2Crop


FAR Focus • 15 May 2012

 Front cover image3The Grass 2 Crop project was set up to research and demonstrate the most effective ways of harnessing the key benefits of the grass phase for successive the successive cropping phase. This FAR Focus edition outlines the results of the three year project and some of the key guidelines that emerged during...

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Autumn sown wheat and barley 2011/2012


FAR Cultivar Evaluation Booklets • 14 May 2012

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Two of the newer wheat cultivars show good promise.  The feed wheat cultivar KWW46 joins the top performers. Empress (CRWT 157), a biscuit wheat, combined high yield with good resistance to foliar diseases. The new barley cultivars Garner and Summit, while yielding above average, were slightly...

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Harvest Snippets Issue 8


Harvest Snippets 2012 • 11 May 2012

This edition of Harvest Snippets includes:

Autumn Wheat Cultivar Evaluation

Manawatu and Southland four year adjusted mean - relative yield by site

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Crop Action Edition 28


Crop Action 2012 • 11 May 2012

This edition of Crop Action includes:

1.  Weekly suction trap capture of cereal aphids

2.  Cereal contamination of ryegrass seed crops

3.  Sulphur

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