Your new pasture - The first 12 months

Specialty Seeds are always adding new informative documents to our Downloads website page.


"Your New Pasture - The first 12 months" is a step by step program to help guide you through the most important period of your new pastures life. From first up grazing, fertiliser applications and weed control this helpful guide covers most of the issues that you can control to achieve a dense, well tillered and productive pasture.

We realize that there is a lot more involved in establishing a successful pasture than simply purchasing top quality seed and introducing it into your paddock.

It will take 12 months of care and attention before a new pasture could be considered successfully established. Particular care with the grazing management for this 12 month period is one of the critical elements required if long term persistence is to be achieved. At the end of this period you should aim to have a dense, well tillered plant that has survived its first summer.

Downloads Link: Download the Your New Pasture - The First 12 Months information brochure.
Website Link: Click here to go to the Specialty Seeds Downloads website page.
Contact Link: Please contact Specialty Seeds if you have any pasture queries.


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Know your Enemy


Know your Enemy are a series of information sheets designed by Specialty Seeds to help our clients learn to have a better understanding of the pasture pests and weeds that effect profitability on New Zealand Farms.

The best way to control these pests and weeds effectively is if you have a better understanding of them, their life cycle and the various methods of controlling them. As you will appreciate there are many "Enemys" out there and this section will grow over time.

The first information sheet in this series was a Pasture Pest called the:

• Clover Root Weevil: : The Clover Root Weevil (CRW) is spread throughout the whole of New Zealand. The economic damage from CRW is measured in the 100’s of millions of dollars and could account for as much as 10 – 15% in New Zealand farm gross margins.
  
  For more information on the Clover Root Weevil please click here to download the Clover Root Weevil Pasture Pest information sheet.

We have just added another Pasture Pest information sheet to the Downloads area:

• Black Beetle: : The African Black Beetle is a pest I am sure many of you will know is a very large problem in the northern North Island. This pasture pest arrived from South Africa via Australia into New Zealand early last century and it is causing increasing amounts of damage.
  
  For more information on the Black Beetle please click here to download the Black Beetle Pasture Pest information sheet.

Website Link: Click here to go to the Specialty Seeds Downloads website page.
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As always, we hope this issue has been of some value to you. If you have a comment on this newsletter or anything on our website, please give us a call on our Freephone: 0800 727 8873, send us an email at: mail@specseed.co.nz.


Kind Regards



Stephen Finch & David Percival
Specialty Seeds - New Zealand