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Issue 38 / Autumn / April 2013

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Welcome to the April edition of the Specialty Seed SeedData Newsletter.
Safely Handling Large Hay Bales
It's fantastic to see since the March edition some parts of the country have recorded some rainfall. In my basic weather station at home I see we had 20 millimeters for March. This is nearly half the March average and that was all in a single event! We are about 50 millimeters behind where we would normally be at this time of the year.

This year a lot of our clients are starting to handle large bales of hay (round or square). Over my working career I have heard of many farmers who have had close calls, suffered injuries and in one case been killed while handling these. Please take the time to click on the note "pop up" (to the right here) which will a very good article from OSH called 'Safe handling, transportation, and stacking of Large Hay bales', and share it with your staff to refresh their memory.

Email issues: Specialty Seed's had a few email issues last week, and so if you or your business have sent email to us between Monday the 1st of April and Wednesday the 3rd of April please get in touch with us to make sure we have recieved this.


In this month's edition we will look at cheap and quick feed options and provide some useful guide lines on feeding out your brassica crops.






Central South Island Charity Bike Ride - Good work Shane!


Good work Shane Specialty Seeds were very pleased to sponsor Shane Nolan who recently competed in the "Central South Island Charity Bike Ride".

Shane reported that the 3 day, 365 km ride from Timaru to Kurow, Kurow to Tekapo and Tekapo to Timaru was a great success and the group raised a massive $180,000! This was $40,000 more than they had hoped for.

For more information on the ride please follow this website link: www.csicbikeride.co.nz

Who knows you may want to give it a go next year?

Click here for more information on Crickoff Pro

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Feeding out Brassica crops
Click here to download Safety tips for feeding brassica

Shortly many of you will start to feed out your winter brassica paddocks.

Brassicas need careful grazing management, particularly early in the season when they are first being fed to your stock; this will help overcome potential animal health issues.

If you click the link below (or the image to the right here) you will find our latest downloadable information brochure, that will show you how to feed them off with a greater degree of safety:

Downloads: Go to the Downloads page for more information brochures.
Contact Link: For more information contact Specialty Seeds.


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Click here to check out Devour tetraploid annual ryegrass

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Cheap and Quick Feed options



This year in particular we are getting a lot of enquiries from our clients for cheap and quick feed options. We have also noted that our clients are looking at the cheaper options as they have larger than normal areas to sow this season. Below is a list of the most commonly used of these cheaper sow down options.

Remember if a cultivar is commercially available we can source it for you.


Cheap long term pasture seed options

Over the last three years we have sold a lot of our "Generator Value Blend". This perennial ryegrass based blend is ideal as a quality, productive, yet economical seed mix designed to last for between 3-5 years.

There are a wide range of cheap seed mixes available on the market today however many of them are Italian / Annual ryegrass based. While these look good in the short term a perennial based mix like the Generator Value Blend will persist longer. Click on the flyer to download the Generator Value blend flyer.


Cheap Italian and Annual ryegrasses options

Annuals: We have two very good annual ryegrass options for you. They are either our Devour tetraploid annual or Thunder diploid annual ryegrass. Devour tetraploid annual is very fast growing tetraploid type that we recommend for use after maize or summer brassica crops. our new Thunder diploid annual ryegrass is no slouch either and being a diploid it is very useful undersowing into run out pasture.

Italians: There are a wide range of Italians in today's market. Specialty Seeds are able to source everything from the newer, more productive, and more expensive varieties, to the older cheaper cultivars.
Kano Italian ryegrass is our robust, high producing and quick growing Italian that has proven itself over a wide range of soil types and fertility situations throughout New Zealand.


Cheap cereal options

Over the next few months cereals can grow twice as quick as grasses. Below are what I consider to be the three best cereal options for our clients.

Ryecorn: Over the last few years there has been resurgence in the use of ryecorn. I suggest it to clients who want to multi graze over the winter / early spring. Easy and cheap to grow, ryecorn can be grazed several times.

Oats: If you are looking for a crop to grow and use once, then Oats fill this role quite well. Specialty Seeds have a wide range of Oat cultivars, ranging from the dearer named ones to the cheaper options. The cheaper options make oats a very economical option for many of you.

Triticale: Triticale is a cross between wheat and ryecorn and can be grown in areas that wheat is less suitable to. If you want to have a crop that can be grazed during the winter and then shut up for a silage crop in the spring then triticale has proven itself very popular over the last few years. Careful management of your triticale drop during the winter grazing process will lead to better spring silage yields.


Website Link: Find out more about the Generator Value blend.
Website Link: Find out more about Devour tetraploid annual ryegrass.
Website Link: Find out more about Thunder diploid annual ryegrass.
Website Link: Find out more about Kano Italian ryegrass.
Website Link: Find out more about Forage Cereals.

Contact Link: For any further information on any of these products contact Specialty Seeds.


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Click here to check out Thunder diploid annual ryegrass

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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

Stephen Finch & David Percival
Specialty Seeds - New Zealand


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