Growing peas on your whenua

Growing peas on your whenua

Peas are a low-cost crop, often grown on contract, with steady rather than large returns. This factsheet covers what peas need from the land, when to plant and harvest, pest and disease management and the crop's environmental effects.

It then gives growing costs, contract prices and margins using a Canterbury crop as the example, along with food safety, freshwater farm plans and the PVNZ and FAR levies.

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Arable crops

  • Wheat

    Enterprise
    Arable crops
    Compliance
    Profitability

    Growing wheat on your whenua.

  • Peas - Potential yield

    Whenua
    Arable crops
    Productivity

    Learn how much peas the whenua in your rohe could produce each year.

  • Maize

    Enterprise
    Arable crops
    Compliance
    Profitability

    Growing grain maize on your whenua.

Compliance

  • Chestnuts

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing chestnuts on your whenua.

  • Potatoes

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing potatoes on your whenua.

  • Onions

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing onions on your whenua.

Profitability

  • Hops

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing hops on your whenua.

  • Blueberries

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing blueberries on your whenua.

  • Citrus

    Enterprise
    Compliance
    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing citrus on your whenua.

An alternative perspective

  • Maize - Phenological stages under climate change

    Climate
    Adaptation
    Arable crops
    Productivity
    Resilience
    Sustainability

    Track how sowing and harvest timing for maize could shift as the climate changes.

  • Wheat - Critical climate risks

    Climate
    Adaptation
    Arable crops
    Risk
    Sustainability

    Check how often heat stress could hit wheat in your rohe as the climate changes.

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Peas - Critical climate risks

Climate
Adaptation
Risk
Sustainability

Explore how heat and frost risks for peas in your rohe could change over time.

Cherries

Enterprise
Compliance
Horticulture
Profitability

Growing cherries on your whenua.

Macadamias

Enterprise
Compliance
Horticulture
Profitability

Growing macadamias on your whenua.

Apples

Enterprise
Compliance
Horticulture
Profitability

Growing apples on your whenua.

Kiwifruit

Enterprise
Compliance
Horticulture
Profitability

Growing kiwifruit on your whenua.

Truffles

Enterprise
Compliance
Horticulture
Profitability

Growing truffles on your whenua.

Wine grapes

Enterprise
Compliance
Horticulture
Profitability
Viticulture

Growing wine grapes on your whenua.

Avocados

Enterprise
Compliance
Horticulture
Profitability

Growing avocados on your whenua.

Mānuka honey

Enterprise
Compliance
Honey
Profitability

Producing mānuka honey on your whenua.

Crop growing requirements

Whenua
Agribusiness
Arable crops
Horticulture
Productivity

Look up the growing needs of a wide range of vegetable, fruit and nut crops.

Vining peas - Profitability

Enterprise
Agribusiness
Horticulture
Profitability

See the operating profit vining peas could earn on the whenua in your rohe each year.

Support for growers to attend conferences

Enterprise
Agribusiness
Arable crops

FAR offers grants for growers to attend international industry conferences and events.