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Friday, 7 May 2010
New Zealand’s biggest privately owned sheep and beef station is resowing pasture into AberHSG high sugar grass after its grazing trials showed livestock gains that could be worth an extra $1 million in annual revenue.
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Friday, 19 March 2010
Maffra dairy farmers Tom and Helen Paton predict high sugar grass will enable them to lift their Friesian herd’s milk production by close to 30 percent.
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Tuesday, 16 March 2010
One of the best things about putting in high-sugar rye grass, was it held up really well under the drought conditions experienced in 2008, says Kiwitea dairy farmer David Scott.
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Thursday, 11 March 2010
An Opunake dairy partnership is using Aber high sugar grass for all pasture renewal after observing the performance of AberDart pasture over the past 18 months.
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Friday, 5 March 2010
A leading South Australia dairy farm milking 2,300 cows has chosen an AberHSG high sugar grass for its pasture renewal following an on-farm growing trial and laboratory tests.
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Monday, 1 March 2010
A grass that can boost animal production and at the same time reduce nitrogen waste should be given credit for its environmental benefits, says an environment award winning farmer.
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Wednesday, 13 January 2010
New ryegrass cultivars with higher concentrations of sugar in their leaves are offering a more desirable pasture diet, according to research in New Zealand.
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Wednesday, 2 December 2009
The challenge of finishing cattle and sheep on steep hill country has been taken up by a South Canterbury farmer where the ground freezes in winter and the hills rise 600-1000m above sea level.
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Friday, 27 November 2009
Higher sugar content in ryegrass cultivars is related to less fibre and protein and would likely encourage more grazing, according to research by AgResearch and Massey University.
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Friday, 20 November 2009
The Welsh scientists who developed high sugar grass, which is widely sown in New Zealand, have received the Queen’s Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education.
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Tuesday, 10 November 2009
High-sugar grass varieties growing in New Zealand are just the beginning of an ongoing advance in pasture quality, the head of seed sales at CRT Co-operative says.
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Friday, 2 October 2009
Pasture on twenty farms owned by an Otago company will eventually all be resown with Aber high sugar grass (AberHSG) cultivars following positive feedback from farmers.
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Thursday, 1 October 2009
Previously running sheep until its conversion to dairy was begun 12 years ago, the 378 hectare farm sharemilked by John and Nicki Den Baars at Wharetoa, in Otago, is today running 1,100 cows.
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Monday, 14 September 2009
Growing high sugar grass has the potential to earn a Southland station an extra $1 million a year in revenue, its management team says.
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Monday, 20 July 2009
Farmer enthusiasm for high sugar grass is now spreading across the Tasman.
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Wednesday, 25 March 2009
A Cambridge dairy farmer has calculated that his herd was earning him an extra $110 a day when grazing high sugar grass this summer.
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Tuesday, 10 March 2009
A Dargaville farmer has found high sugar ryegrass offers an advantage in battling the persistent regrowth of kikuyu grass.
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Monday, 2 March 2009
Recent rain is a welcome relief for parched farms in North Otago where there’s now a green tinge to spent pastures, but more rain is needed.
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Saturday, 28 February 2009
The acreage sown in high sugar grass (HSG) has doubled year on year as more farmers have seen its benefit as a pasture feed and its reliability In tough conditions.
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Saturday, 21 February 2009
Still in the grip of a third consecutive drought on the East Coast, Waikura Station manager Barry Griffin is hoping rain forecast for this weekend will start creeks flowing and the grass growing.
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Thursday, 12 February 2009
High sugar grass has proved a real sweetener for Jorge Hobi.
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Saturday, 24 January 2009
Becoming a dairy farmer has been a learning curve for Waimata Cheese director Rick Thorpe who bought a dairy farm a year ago to secure milk supply.
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Monday, 1 December 2008
A two-year study to test a high sugar grass for its resistance to a major insect pest indicates it was less susceptible than other ryegrasses in the field trial.
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Tuesday, 21 October 2008
The independent testing of grass cultivars is a reasonable option if it will help farmers, the New Zealand Grassland Association conference was told at Blenheim (Oct 14-16).
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Friday, 10 October 2008
A Balclutha dairy farmer's trial planting of high sugar grass four years ago has led to his decision to regrass all winter crop areas with AberDart from now on.
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Wednesday, 1 October 2008
High sugar grass, a perennial ryegrass with higher water soluble carbohydrate levels, is finding favour among deer farmers – and their deer.
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Monday, 1 September 2008
There’s no free lunch in farming but James Aitken honestly thinks high sugar grasses are the closest thing to it.
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Thursday, 31 July 2008
A Southland dairy farmer steadily resowing all paddocks on both his dairy farm conversions says independent grass test results would make the gains a lot more certain.
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Thursday, 17 July 2008
A new grass that gives animals more energy while at the same time reducing their nitrogen emissions could have a further use providing ethanol for transport fuel.
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Tuesday, 3 June 2008
New Zealand farmers will benefit from independent grass trials that rank grass cultivars in order of feed value as well as yield, said Germinal Seeds NZ Ltd general manager David Kerr today.
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Thursday, 15 May 2008
The drought that has cost dairy farmers about $500 million in potential milk earnings did have an upside in showing farmers which grass cultivars can persist through tough conditions.
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Wednesday, 30 April 2008
The recent drought and slide in sheep prices has put pressure on sheep farmers throughout the South Island but those already underway with pasture renewal were better prepared for a testing time.
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Tuesday, 1 April 2008
Strong inquiry from Canterbury and North Otago farmers for seed points to a surge of pasture renewal when adequate rain arrives, some of the region's Germinal seed merchants are reported as saying.
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Wednesday, 12 March 2008
More farmers are considering the ability of pasture to withstand hard grazing in dry conditions, according to a Timaru seed merchant.
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Thursday, 31 January 2008
Farmers can expect more purpose-bred, higher performing grasses such as high sugar grass, says a director of one of Britain’s big four grass seed companies.
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Thursday, 10 January 2008
Auroa dairy farmer Brian Hiestand is not afraid of trying new things on his farm on the southern side of Mt Taranaki.
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Friday, 7 December 2007
New Zealand farmers are picking up on the environmental advantages of high-sugar grass, says William Gilbert, head of a nine-generation family seed business in Britain.
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Tuesday, 4 December 2007
The potential of high sugar grass to intensify farming while reducing environmental impact was of key interest at the NZ Grassland Association 2007 conference at Wairakei in November (13-15).
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Monday, 8 October 2007
Blackdale Stud in Southland is among the country’s leaders in the progeny testing of rams and partner Peter Black takes a similarly methodical approach to evaluating new pasture varieties.
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Monday, 24 September 2007
High sugar grass is a new type of ryegrass earning praise from farmers because it offers a double benefit in being good for the environment as well as for livestock.
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Friday, 7 September 2007
Greenfield farmer Max Miller was impressed when his lambs refused to exit from a paddock of high sugar ryegrass – he had to send in a sheepdog to move them on.
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Friday, 24 August 2007
Clinton sheep and cattle farmer Scott McKenzie knows the value of good pasture.
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Friday, 24 August 2007
The Hillcrest perendale and cheviot stud at Clinton attributes the strong weight gain of their lambs to high sugar ryegrass pasture that was tried for the first time last year.
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Tuesday, 31 July 2007
A Dairy Insight report on high sugar grass trial results from AgResearch highlights a 10 percent increase in milksolids during autumn 2007 from cows fed AberDart (a high sugar ryegrass) compared to cows fed a standard ryegrass.
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Thursday, 19 July 2007
An AgResearch leader’s recent endorsement of high sugar grasses as a way to increase farm production while reducing greenhouse gas emissions is a positive message for farmers, said Germinal Seeds (NZ) Ltd General Manager David Kerr today.
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Thursday, 19 July 2007
Farmers in the Taupo catchment are waiting needlessly for nitrogen credits that should be available to them when grazing stock on high sugar grass that’s proven to reduce nitrogen emissions from livestock, said Germinal Seeds (NZ) Ltd General Manager David Kerr today.
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Friday, 29 June 2007
Dairy farmer Stuart Roy says AberDart High Sugar Grass is money in his pocket.
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Wednesday, 21 March 2007
Roles of High Sugar Grasses - NZ Large Herds Conference presentation (pdf).
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Monday, 12 February 2007
A little warm weather and a new ryegrass variety have gone a long way on Mark and Robyn Copland’s 670ha sheep and beef farm.
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Monday, 8 January 2007
Sward quality is the key to cost-effective and simple grass-based dairy systems say Mid Canterbury farmers Wayne and Greg Meadows.
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Wednesday, 22 November 2006
Cust (Mid-Canterbury) dairy farmer Geoff Spark has had AberAvon High Sugar Grass (HSG) for eight months only but says it is already a clear favourite with his herd.
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Thursday, 17 August 2006
Former Taranaki dairy consultant Duncan Barr is someone who looks for explanations before drawing any conclusions.
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