New Zealand Dairy Farm | Planting a Mixed Summer Crop for Stock Grazing

Today, Lance is using the Massey Ferguson Seed Drill to sow our first Summer Crop Mix. The Crop is planted now (in mid spring) to be grazed by our cows in late summer/ early autumn. The mix includes 23 different species listed below. This is a great opportunity for us to move away from our usual mono crop of turnips and add more diversity in our permanent pastures and into the cows diet.
Cocksfoot
Prairie Grass
Fescue
Digby Rye Grass
Advantage Tetraplod
Rocket Italian Ryegrass
Fascinate Annual Italian
Phalaris
Timothy
Plantain
Chicory
White Clover Double Blend
Red Clover Double Blend
Oats
Peas
Sunflowers
Phacelia
Vetch
Daikon Radish
Kale
Spitfire Rape
Millet
Hi, We’re Lance and Claire Mullin. We have five amazing kids and as a family we are trying to live a slow, self-sufficient lifestyle, growing much of our own food off our small farm and homestead.
We have owned our small dairy farm in Taranaki, New Zealand for 7 years. This year is the start of our journey to begin to transform our farm with regenerative practices.
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