ADDING plantain – a forage herb – as an option in its most popular herbage seed mixtures gives livestock farmers an added opportunity to boost home-grown protein production, says forage specialist, ...

Things are finally starting to warm up with a little rain, which is welcome following a slow start to the season. We have managed to spread digestate ...

Awapai farm manager Shane Tilson says he has planted 80ha of mixed clover and tonic plantain in the past four years. A Hawke's Bay farm trial shows that lambs fatten faster on plantain and yield ...

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Plantain Proves Popular Alternative to Pasture. ... Shane Tilson says he has planted 80 hectares of mixed clover and tonic plantain in the last four years and is now seeing outstanding results.

Agricom Southern South Island sales manager Gareth Kean, left, with Edievale farmer Mike McElrea checking a tonic plantain crop.Diane Bishop / Otago-Southland-Farmer When Mike McElrea saw plantain ...

Two sets of dairy heifers eating two different diets of cut plantain and ryegrass-white clover were used in the research. Photo / File With increased scrutiny of New Zealand farming practices and ...

They then sowed 3 kg of tonic plantain along with 2kg of AberHerald and AberCrusader white clover, and 1 kg of AberClaret red clover. For each hectare this should provide 1 kg of dry matter per ...