

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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