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
    Compliance
    Profitability

    Growing grain maize on your whenua.

  • Wheat

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    Profitability

    Growing wheat on your whenua.

  • Potatoes

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    Horticulture
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    Growing potatoes on your whenua.

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  • Onions

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    Growing onions on your whenua.

  • Chestnuts

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    Horticulture
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    Growing chestnuts on your whenua.

  • Peas - Potential yield

    Whenua
    Arable crops
    Productivity

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

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    Horticulture
    Profitability

    Growing hops on your whenua.

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    Growing macadamias on your whenua.

  • Blueberries

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    Growing blueberries on your whenua.

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    Climate
    Adaptation
    Risk
    Sustainability

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

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    Arable crops
    Productivity
    Resilience
    Sustainability

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

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