About Wallfield Farm

Our Farming operation is a family business situated in North Otago in the South Island of New Zealand.

We grow on our property in excess of 100 hectares of high quality Alfalfa (Lucerne). We have been growing Alfalfa on our property for twelve years. The demand for our product was so great we decided six years ago ago to develop the technology and machinery to pack and vacuum seal the crop and market it as WF Lucerne Chaff Haylage.

The soil we grow our Alfalfa crop on has a wonderful natural fertility. Limestone based with excellent Calcium levels for growing the high quality Alfalfa required to uphold our high product standards.

We dress our Alfalfa crop with natural seaweed in the plants' early growing stage; the seaweed acts as a broad spectrum fertiliser, is rich in beneficial trace minerals and contains an abundance of fully chelated (ready to use) micro-nutrients which can be readily absorbed by plants. The seaweed also helps as an organic pest control - all in one natural material.

Harvesting generally starts in October and runs through to May each year. Each crop is packed into 22kg plastic bags and vacuum sealed to ensure freshness and to maintain the quality of the plant fibre.

Please be assured that WF Lucerne Chaff Haylage is 100% Alfalfa (Lucerne) - we use no additives of any kind.

WF as a supplemental feed product has been very well received in the New Zealand market place, selling well into both the Horse Racing and Breeding Industry throughout the country, New Caledonia and now in Hong Kong.

WF Lucerne Chaff Haylage is compatible with all grain feeds and supplements, and by feeding 3kgs of WF, the horse will be better able to digest the grain content of their feed. This WF addition to their feed regime will also promote lowering acid levels in the horse's stomach - resulting in a more content and well temperamented horse, a horse able to compete to the best of their ability.

Please don't hesitate to contact us directly if you have any queries regarding WF Lucerne Chaff Haylage..

WF Lucerne Chaff Haylage

Typical Nutritional Analysis

22 kg Vacuum Packed Bag

Rich in protein, vitamin K and many other vitamins and minerals. 
Does not contain Ruminant Protein or By Products

No additives in product.
After opening bag, fold over top to keep product fresh.

Alfalfa Plant ~ from plantguide.org ALFALFA (Medicago sativa L.) Other English name: Lucerne. Botanical description: Alfalfa is a strongly perennial plant which is able to live thirty years or more under favourable conditions. It has a typical taproot; that is, the root system consists of a strong main root from which secondary side roots branch off. As there are no runners or creeping roots, all the over ground branches start from the uppermost part of the taproot which generally protrudes above the ground and is known as the crown. With increasing age, the crown is apt to split into two or more branches, the upper ends of which are free and form a kind of tuft, sometimes of considerable circumference.  The main root, which when old is an inch or so thick and rather woody, finds its way down to a considerable depth if the soil permits. On the roots are found the nodules, typical of the leguminous plants. They are on the finer branches and are clustered together into irregular bunches. The stems, which in old plants are exceedingly numerous, are generally from two to three feet high at flowering time. As a rule, they are little branched, especially when the stand is dense. They are round below, more or less angular towards the top, and usually smooth.

The leaves, which are alternate (that is, solitary at each joint and scattered along the stem), consist of three leaflets like those of Red Clover. The leaflets are rather narrow, two to three times as long as broad, and sharply toothed in their upper part. The middle one has a short stalk whereas in the cultivated species of Trifolium the central leaflet has no stalk. Occasionally leaves with four or five leaflets are found but not so often as in Red Clover.

Agricultural value:
The feeding value of Alfalfa was recognized in Persia long before the Christian era and it was highly esteemed by the Arabians. At present no fodder plant is known which can compete with it in nutritive value and general importance for feeding. It is relished by all kinds of stock, horses, cattle, sheep and hogs eating it with eagerness. Even Red Clover is inferior to it in nutritive value, the protein content being greater in Alfalfa. It can be fed to greatest advantage to dairy cattle but is also important for fattening all kinds of farm animals, especially sheep and hogs.