1505Bv

Speciality forages

1505Bv

1505Bv is a hybrid type fodder beet offering high yield potential.

1505Bv is a newly released genetic monogerm hybrid type fodder beet boasts a high yield potential. It will work for grazing both in-situ or self-harvesting. It is suitable for a range of grazing systems

Suited to all livestock types

Features

  • High leaf:bulb ratio
  • Medium – high DM%
  • Genetic monogerm hybrid variety

Benefits

  • Uniform tubular bulbs
  • Versatile variety suited to grazing or harvesting
  • High potential yields

Sowing Rates

Grazing
80-100,000 seeds/ha
Harvesting
120,000 seeds/ha
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614QL

Lucerne

614QL

614QL Lucerne is a versatile and broadly adaptive variety suited to multi-purpose mixed farming systems in semi/non dormant regions.

614QL is versatile and broadly adaptive to multi-purpose mixed farming systems looking for exceptional yield and forage quality with good stand persistence in semi/non dormant regions. 614 QL is an excellent choice for grazing tolerance with good pest and disease resistance and fast recovery after grazing or cutting. 614QL demonstrates a low level of multifoliate leaf expression and has been selected from old forage yield trials for persistence, vigour, and freedom from leaf disease. The germplasm sources used in the development trace to elite USA breeding populations.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • High yielding,multi-purpose variety
  • Multifoliate leaf expression
  • Strong pest and disease resistance
  • Good grazing tolerance

Benefits

  • Excellent persistence
  • Versatile and broadly adaptive
  • Well suited to mixed farming zones

Sowing Rates

>900mm irrigation
10-20kg/ha
700-850mm rainfall
8-10kg/ha
600-750mm rainfall
6-8kg/ha
450-600mm rainfall
4-6kg/ha
<450mm rainfall
2-4kg/ha
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714QL

Lucerne

714QL

714QL is one of Australia’s favourite hay lucernes due to its outstanding yield and quality characteristics.

DORMANCY 7 WINTER ACTIVE

714QL was selected from a pool of high yielding tri-foliate breeders’ lines showing excellent plant density and high leaf content.

714QL was selected to provide a high yielding and high quality lucerne to satisfy the strict requirements for both premium hay producers and intensive livestock producers.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • High yielding
  • Excellent leaf to stem ratio
  • High quality specialist hay variety

Benefits

  •  Suits premium hay producers or quality silage
  • Improved quality with high leaf content in the bale. Can provide increased hay value
  • Provides greater returns per hectare

Sowing Rates

>900mm irrigation
10-20kg/ha
700-850mm rainfall
8-10kg/ha
600-750mm rainfall
6-8kg/ha
450-600mm rainfall
4-6kg/ha
<450mm rainfall
2-4kg/ha
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914QL

Lucerne

914QL

914QL is a new highly winter active lucerne. It comes from the same breeder as 714QL, but was selected for increased winter activity.

THE NEW 9 FOR YOUR BLOCK

914QL was selected for increased winter activity with similar high leaf to stem ratio and improved persistence over many older activity 9 and 10 varieties.

It is well suited to both hay producers looking for an extra one or two cuts per year, or for livestock producers wanting more winter production in a highly winter active lucerne with improved persistence.

914QL is an ideal replacement for 10 and other activity 9 or 10 lucerne varieties.

Features

  • Very high yielding
  • Increased winter activity
  • Improved persistence

Benefits

  • Suited to in situ grazing
  • More cuts or grazing per year
  • Longer stand life for a highly winter active variety

Sowing Rates

>900mm irrigation
10-20kg/ha
700-850mm rainfall
8-10kg/ha
600-750mm rainfall
6-8kg/ha
450-600mm rainfall
4-6kg/ha
<450mm rainfall
2-4kg/ha
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Acacia Plateau

Kikuyu, Prairie Grass and Phalaris

Acacia Plateau

Acacia Plateau is a fast-establishing forage kikuyu with improved cold tolerance and rapid lateral spreading ability.

THE LATERAL SPREADING KIKUYU FOR LATERAL THINKING PRODUCERS

Acacia Plateau was selected from plants growing at Acacia Plateau at the top of the Clarence River catchment close to the NSW/QLD border some 1000m above sea level.

This has led to a new variety with an ability to establish and grow under cooler temperatures, yet cover over rapidly. Trials have shown it to establish faster and produce more feed than Whittet, especially in the cool season.

It also has higher quality when grazed on a tight rotation length (see table below).

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Rapid lateral spread
  • Excellent feed quality
  • Broad seed germination period
  • High forage yields
  • Greater cold tolerance

Benefits

  • Can achieve pasture coverage faster
  • More feed available for livestock
  • Improved animal performance
  • Can handle staggered moisture profile
  • Can establish under cooler temperatures and in autumn with temperate grasses. Will produce greater winter feed yields

Sowing Rates

Sole grass with clovers & herbs
Minimum 5kg/ha
Other tropical grasses with clovers & herbs
2-5kg/ha
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Accelerate 2

Italian Ryegrass

Accelerate 2

Accelerate 2 is a new highly winter active italian ryegrass, developed in Europe from a number of highly successful Australian and New Zealand bred varieties.

General Fit

Accelerate 2 has excellent seedling vigour making it suitable for sowing into either clean paddocks or over-sowing into sub-tropical pastures including setaria and kikuyu.
Accelerate 2 has similar maturity to Accelerate , but has reduced aftermath heading and much improved disease resistance.
The background material was artificially inoculated and heavily screened for improved tolerance to crown rust and bacterial wilt. Only those lines showing strong resistance were then re-combined into the final product. Accelerate 2 also has good tolerance to stem rust.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Diploid Italian ryegrass
  • Excellent seedling vigour
  • High winter activity
  • Good heat tolerance

Benefits

  • Dense tillering for improved persistence
  • More feed when it is needed most
  • Fast establishing, including oversowing sub tropical pastures
  • Improved ability to handle warmer conditions late in the season

Sowing Rates

Oversowing Kikuyu
30-40kg/ha
>850mm Irrigation
35-40kg/ha
700-850mm Rainfall
20-25kg/ha
500-700mm Rainfall
20kg/ha
Oversowing perennial pastures
15kg/ha
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Adrenalin 2

Annual Ryegrass

Adrenalin 2

Adrenalin 2 is a new improved late maturity tetraploid annual ryegrass.

General Fit

Adrenalin 2 is a new highly winter active annual ryegrass, developed in Europe to replace the highly successful Adrenalin . It has excellent seedling vigour making it suitable for sowing into either clean paddocks or over-sowing into sub-tropical pastures including setaria and kikuyu.
Adrenalin 2 is a few days later flowering than Adrenalin , but a major benefit of Adrenalin 2 is its outstanding rust tolerance. This enables the variety to perform at the highest level in all environments where the season will enable early-mid autumn sowing and progress well into November.
Adrenalin 2 has improved rust resistance which makes suitable to the coastal northern NSW and QLD markets where rust tolerance is critical to high performance and livestock palatability.
We recommend its use where growing season length can enable it to deliver to its potential.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Tetraploid Italian ryegrass
  • Excellent seedling vigour
  • High winter activity
  • Excellent rust tolerance

Benefits

  • Fast establishing and higher quality
  • More feed when it is needed most
  • Fast establishing, including over-sowing sub-tropical pastures
  • Suited to both northern and southern growing conditions

 

Sowing Rates

Oversowing Kikuyu
30-50kg/ha
>850mm Irrigation
35-50kg/ha
700-850mm Rainfall
25-25kg/ha
700-850mm Rainfall
25-30kg/ha
500-700mm Rainfall
20-35kg/ha
Oversowing perennial pastures
20kg/ha
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Antillo

Sub Clover

Antillo

Antillo is a late season sub clover providing a new and improved replacement for Antas (ssp. brachycalycinum).

BETTER SEED REGENERATION AND DISEASE RESISTANCE FOR MORE FEED

Antillo is well adapted to neutral to alkaline soils but will perform well in moderately acidic soils (pH CaCl2 6.5-8.5). It has improved seed yield and has shown superior performance over those older varieties after the establishment year. This is due to its improved seed yield and disease resistance resulting in higher regeneration levels over other brachycalycinum varieties. It is best suited to areas with approximately 700-900 mm annual average rainfall. Antillo establishes rapidly like other brachycalycinums. It can be used as for permanent and semi-permanent pastures in neutral to alkaline soils and where soil-cracking is likely over summer. It can be used in cropping rotations or for specialist hay and silage production due to its outstanding first year production.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Sub species brachycalycinum (black seeded)
  • Late season flowering
  • Higher seed yields
  • Good disease tolerance

Benefits

  • Suited to moderately acid-alkaline soils
  • Well suited to flood irrigated hay production
  • Higher seedling regeneration in years 2 and beyond
  • Higher autumn/winter yields from more plants
  • High spring and total forage yields
  • Well suited to silage and hay production

Sowing Rates

Sole species
5-10kg/ha
Pasture mixes
2-5kg/ha
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Beverly

Cocksfoot

Beverly

Beverly is a new soft-leaf Oceanic (intermediate) cocksfoot from the RAGT program that has outproduced Greenly.

GENERAL FIT

Beverly has similar leaf softness, higher ME and lower NDF% like Lazuly, but considerably better than other commercial varieties. This enables it to deliver higher liveweight gain potential.

Beverly has higher overall yield and improved rust resistance to Greenly and Lazuly, but similar persistence. It is a few days later flowering.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • High forage yields
  • Good disease resistance
  • Excellent feed quality

Benefits

  • More feed when it is needed
  • Outstanding animal performance
  • Increased palatability by stock

Sowing Rates

8 – 12kg/ha
4 – 6kg/ha in a mix
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Brigadier

Speciality forages

Brigadier

Brigadier is a traditional polyploid, mangel type fodder beet with orange bulbs that sit high up out of the soil.

HIGH YIELDS WERE NEVER THIS SWEET

Brigadier is ideal for grazing in-situ by all livestock classes, and its high sugar level makes it very palatable. Fodder beet is a well known crop, but with new genetics and better management practices it is gaining rapid interest for its ability to produce very high yields of high quality forage. It is typically sown in spring using specialist seeders and has a 4–6 month growing period. Brigadier offers new genetic potential and is capable of producing 20–40t DM/ha for late autumn and winter grazing. It is not a brassica but a member of the beet family and offers the opportunity to break the traditional weed and pest cycle of brassicas, particularly for Diamondback moth. You should seek specialist advice from RAGT if considering growing this exciting crop.

Suited to all livestock types

Features

  • High sugar feed option
  • Very high potential yields
  • Good weed & pest rotational crop
  • 75% in the ground

Benefits

  • Very good palatability for all livestock classes
  • Can yield up to 20–40t DM/ha. Profitable crop option
  • Sound option to avoid Diamondback moth problems

Sowing Rates

Sole Species
80-100,000 seeds/ha
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Calorific+

Forage Sorghum

Calorific+

Calorific+ is an outstanding new hybrid sweet sorghum ideally suited to fodder conservation.

GENERAL FIT

Like all sweet sorghum types, Calorific is slower to establish than sudangrass and sorghum x sudan hybrids if early feed is required. But when it is left to grow beyond 1.2m in height it will produce more than those earlier types. It can grow up to 3m tall and will have good grain content if allowed to mature for a late silage cut. As such it is best suited to where a grower is chasing maximum fodder yield from one or potentially two large harvests. It is a late flowering variety with a large broad leaf to maximise leaf to stem ratio and hence improve feed quality. It also has high sugar content in the stem so will not be penalised when used for high yielding silage cuts. Under good conditions or where irrigation is available, it can be shut up for a second cut or grazed by livestock.

Suited to Dairy & Beef Cattle, Silage and Hay

Features

  • New hybrid sweet sorghum x sweet sorghum
  • Late maturity
  • Large broad leaf
  • High sugar stem

Benefits

  • Suited to high yielding one or 2 cuts for fodder
  • Retains quality under longer growing season
  • Provides higher quality feed for conservation
  • Maintains good quality

Sowing Rates

Dryland
6-10kg/ha
Irrigated
10-20kg/ha
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Dynatron TT

Spring Canola

Dynatron TT

Dynatron TT combines the value of the Triazine Tolerant herbicide system with other hybrid seed traits.

Type – Hybrid
Herbicide Tolerance Group – Triazine Tolerant
Blackleg Resistance – MR-MS (bare) Resistance Group BC
Seedling Vigour – Excellent
Crop Height – Medium-Tall
Oil – High
Alternative To – HyTTec Trident, HyTTec Trophy, InVigor T4510, Hyola 550TT, Hyola 559TT, ATR Bonito

Features

  • An EPR of $10 per tonne (ex GST) applies to Dynatron TT to minimise upfront costs
  • Significantly higher yielding compared with OP TT cultivars (>17% in 2019 than ATR Bonito – refer to NVT data below)

Benefits

Sowing Rates

1-2/ha
20-40 plants/m2
2-3.5/ha
30-50 plants/m2
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Emmerson

Italian Ryegrass

Emmerson

Emmerson is a new generation broad leaved tetraploid Italian ryegrass adapted to a wide range of environments

MORE ENERGY WHEN THE HEAT IS ON

Emmerson has excellent establishment vigour and produces best in warm environments. It has good autumn-early winter production and a large spring flush, ideal for fodder conservation. It has shown higher ME levels and lower NDF levels than diploid Italian ryegrass (except Indulgence) through the cool growing season offering more energy for conversion to meat or milk production. It has also shown excellent disease tolerance, in particular a low incidence of rust in humid environments. It has a very large seed, much larger than other tetraploids and we recommend sowing it at 35kg/ha.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Large seed with excellent vigour
  • Very good quality with very good disease tolerance
  • Late season tetraploid Italian ryegrass

Benefits

  • Fast establishment and grazing recovery
  • Ideal for spring flush and fodder conservation
  • Can provide better liveweight gain and milk production per hectare

Sowing Rates

Oversowing Kikuyu
35-50kg/ha
>850mm Irrigation
35-50kg/ha
700-850mm Rainfall
25-30kg/ha
500-700mm Rainfall
20kg/ha
Oversowing perennial pastures
20-30kg/ha
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Endurance

Speciality forages

Endurance

Endurance is a new forage plantain with improved feed production across all seasons.

FEED FOR ALL SEASONS

Plantain is a drought hardy deep rooted perennial herb well adapted to low fertility soils. Existing varieties have either been winter active and early flowering or summer active and late flowering. Endurance provides similar winter feed to Tonic, but with improved warm season production. It is ideal for pasture mixes where producers are looking for a contribution from plantain across all seasons. Being around 4 weeks later flowering than Tonic, it will not lose quality so early in the growing season.

Suited to all livestock types

Features

  • Mid season maturity
  • All season growth
  • Frost tolerant

Benefits

  • Suited to a broader range of environments
  • Fills more than one feed gap
  • Will still grow feed in extreme winter cold

Sowing Rates

Sole species
8-10kg/ha
Pasture mixes
3-5kg/ha
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Finesse-Q

Tall Fescue

Finesse-Q

Finesse-Q is a high yielding, densely tillered, soft-leaf fescue with semi-late heading. It is extremely persistent due to its dense nature and has no fescue endophyte.

FEEL THE DIFFERENCE

Finesse-Q has an intermediate growth pattern better suited to much of Australia’s climate, and has performed well in Australian trails.


Its tiller density and high leaf quality make it well suited to dairy, beef and sheep.

Its lack of endophyte makes it also suited to grazing by horses, goats and alpacas.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Deep rooted pastures species
  • Excellent fine leafed, densely tillered variety
  • Continental type

Benefits

  • High quality, soft-leaf fescue for increased intake. Cultivar recommended for use by dairy cows
  • Gives all year round high yields and quality. Best suited to areas of summer rainfall or irrigation
  • Provides improved persistence for longer pasture life

Sowing Rates

>850mm Irrigation
20-25kg/ha
700-850mm Rainfall
15-20kg/ha
500-700mm Rainfall
10-15kg/ha
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Flourish+

Forage Sorghum

Flourish+

Flourish+ is an excellent value forage sorghum option ideally suited to fast first feed and multiple harvests.

FAST FIRST FEED AND MULTIPLE HARVESTS

Flourish+ should be grazed from 60–100cm in height to maximise forage quality, but can be conserved as hay, although with lower feed value. Higher sowing rates will maximise yield and improve quality through production of finer stems. It is suited to hay or grazing by sheep, beef or dairy cattle. It will need to be fed with adequate nutrition based on a soil test. We recommend sowing with an N/P based starter fertiliser and regular topdressing after grazings with Nitrogen and some Potassium. Being a sorghum by sudan, grass weeds can be controlled with Atrazine without the need for a seed safener. For difficult grass and broadleaf weed problems, you can use a seed safener such as Concep II to enable the use of Dual Gold or Primextra Gold

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Hybrid Sorghum x Sudan
  • Fine stemmed and leafy
  • Excellent regrowth & drought tolerance
  • Works well as a multi-cut hay or hay and silage

Benefits

  • Low prussic acid risk
  • Improved feed quality
  • Outstanding animal performance
  • Flexible stand management

Sowing Rates

Dryland
8-12kg/ha
Irrigated
20-25kg/ha
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