The livestock sector is booming and so is demand for high quality forage, be it forage brassicas or fodder beet.

Why would a new crop protection business, with a special interest in innovative products, bother entering the New Zealand market when bigger players struggling with some of the longest regulatory timeframes in the world are pulling back?

For New Zealand’s fodder beet and forage brassica growers, timing is everything - and so is confidence in your crop protection.

How many times have your farmers told you grass is not a worry in brassica crops because it’s free feed and the cows will eat it?

It’s not just armies that march on their stomachs. Slugs do too.

If you think you’re seeing a lot more yellow around lately, your eyes are not deceiving you.

A unique three-way project between supplier, retailer, and farmer is nearing an important milestone as it sets out to prove Californian thistles can be permanently beaten.

Headstart, containing 50g/l flumetsulam with inbuilt adjuvant technology, has established itself as a key tool for early weed control in pasture and chicory.

The application of crop protection and growth enhancement additives to seed is a very effective and well-established method of protecting forage crops and pasture during the critical plant establishment period.

Early in 2025, Vegetables NZ and Syngenta Crop Protection NZ initiated a trial to evaluate performance of Durivo insecticide applied by multiple methods, compared to an untreated control.

With the economic forecast for the red meat sector predicting ongoing record prices for the 2025/2026 season, every lamb born this spring is an opportunity to make money.

Forage crops have long played a role in maintaining summer production and reducing health issues linked to wild type endophyte and facial eczema.

Cydectin Pour-On is a widely trusted worm and lice treatment for cattle, offering effective control against a broad spectrum of internal and external parasites. Its active ingredient, moxidectin, is a member of the macrocyclic lactone family, renowned for its potency and extended action.

FECPAK has become the fastest, most efficient faecal egg counting test system on the global market, thanks to the release of instant results powered by proprietary artificial intelligence (AI) software.

A recent trial conducted near Lincoln, Canterbury assessed the performance and ability of Agricom’s modern white clover proprieties to increase annual production compared to a commodity clover (Huia), under synthetic nitrogen limitations in a standard ryegrass mix.

A big new facility in Hamilton built to put premium grass seed on farm faster and in peak condition for sowing has sailed through its first season.

Now is not the time to stop incorporating plantain into dairy pasture systems to reduce nitrogen loss, says Agricom Australasia brand manager Mark Brown.

Sowing high quality forage crops for next season’s feed may seem a long time away, but spring will come round fast — and the better your farmers plan ahead, the better their outcome will be.

Komodo, a new post plant pre-emerge herbicide registered by Arxada for use in fodder and sugar beet, is now commercially available for the market.

A group of scientists from the Botany Division of the then-DSIR (Department of Scientific and Industrial Research) at Lincoln warned of the risks of conifers in New Zealand’s high country as far back as 1982.