At the 2012 New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards gala dinner held in Auckland on Friday 11th May, Grasslanz Technology Limited was presented with the HSBC Most Innovative Product from an Emerging Market Award for Agritech...

Luisetti Seeds have recently concluded an agreement with Grasslanz Technology to breed and develop a new lucerne cultivar specifically for the New Zealand market. Lucerne has long been a significant part...

Grasslanz Technology Ltd welcomes its newest staff member. Clint Bell was awarded a Foundation for Arable Research (FAR) Postgraduate Scholarship...

Grasslanz Technology Limited has been named a category winner of the 2010/2011 DuPont Australia and New Zealand Innovation Award, announced at the Presentation Ceremony on 13 May 2011 in Melbourne. Judged across seven categories, the biennial awards...

Grasslanz Technology Limited has been named as category winner of the New Zealand International Business Awards 2010, announced the Awards Ceremony on 13 October in Auckland. This award recognises success in developing...

The pipeline that delivers the new endophytes, ryegrass and clover cultivars featured in Inside Dairy requires investment in basic science, product development and field evaluation. Government, DairyNZ and agribusiness all invest in this pipeline. New Zealand dairy farmers...

Errol Thom,
Senior Scientist, DairyNZ

Overall conclusions

1. AR37 ryegrass was clearly more persistent than either AR1 or Standard (HE) ryegrass. This supports findings from previous work.
2. The greater persistency translated into a reduced need for renovation of AR37 pastures after the 2008 drought, but in the three years...

Peter McNab in South Otago is very encouraged by what he’s seen of the ability of AR37 to protect hill country pastures from Porina...

The newly launched PRCT website has had additional technical tips articles added to resource rural retailers and assist farmers. Four articles are included in the technical tips section...

Waikato dairy farmers David and Raewyn Bennett say perennial ryegrass commando with AR37 endophyte has proved by far the best technological advance they were offered during the walton farm project in 2006...

Reading through the recent volumes of articles relating to pasture persistence, perennial ryegrass cultivars and the various endophytes, one wonders if somewhere down the line we have lost...