Forbes

Sub Clover

Forbes

Forbes is an early-mid season sub clover providing a new and improved replacement for Dalkeith, Losa and Urana (ssp. subterraneum).

BETTER SEED REGENERATION AND DISEASE RESISTANCE FOR MORE FEED

Forbes is more hard-seeded than all other cultivars, apart from Tammin giving it improved tolerance to false breaks. It is best suited to areas with approximately 350-525 mm annual average rainfall. It has been tested in both three-year pasture trials as well as under a one year pasture followed by one year crop, then one year pasture rotation. It shows improved regeneration after cropping compared to other varieties apart from Tammin.

Despite this Forbes will produce more feed than all varieties after crop in its recommended rainfall zone. Forbes is suitable for permanent and semi-permanent pastures.

It can be used in cropping rotations, but at least two years of pasture are required between crops. Its upright, vigorous growth makes it suited to hay and silage production, as well as to grazing by cattle or sheep.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Sub species subterraneum (black seeded)
  • Early-mid-season flowering
  • Good hard seed levels
  • Seedling redlegged earthmite resistance

Benefits

  • Tolerant of water-logging
  • Well suited to flood irrigated hay production
  • Higher seedling regeneration in years 2 and beyond
  • Higher autumn/winter yields from more plants
  • Produces more feed in medium-high rainfall zone
  • Will re-seed in early season finishes
  • Protects against seedling losses with false breaks

Sowing Rates

Sole species
5-10kg/ha
Pasture mixes
2-5kg/ha
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G2

Forage Brassica

G2

G2 is a diploid, green-skinned, white fleshed turnip. It is a later maturing round traditional globe turnip for winter use.

THE WINTER TURNIP

G2 is a high quality bulb that will keep well over winter, plus a high ratio of palatable leaf. It is an ideal replacement for Green Globe.

Stock Suitability: Dairy, Sheep & Beef

Features

  • Can be grown to use as deferred winter feed. Also suitable for late summer and autumn feed

Benefits

  • Can be grown to use as deferred winter feed. Also suitable for late summer and autumn feed
  • Keeps good quality well over winter under wet and frosty conditions
  • Keeps good quality well over winter under wet and frosty conditions

Sowing Rates

0.5-2kg/ha
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Greenland

Forage Brassica

Greenland

Greenland is a high yielding forage rape that can be used by dairy, beef and sheep producers to produce high quality feed in any season where moisture during growing season will allow.

THE NEW BENCHMARK FOR FORAGE RAPE

Due to its late flowering, Greenland is well suited to sowing during late summer until spring. It is consistently producing high yields when sown for either winter or summer feed. Greenland has become the rape of choice for producers looking to improve their profitability from growing forage rape.

Stock Suitability: Dairy, Sheep & Beef

Features

  • Fast to first grazing
  • Higher yielding
  • Improved re-growth potential
  • Reduced bolting

Benefits

  • Can provide earlier feed for livestock
  • Can deliver more liveweight gain or milk per hectare
  • Provides more feed from later grazings
  • Provides better quality longer

Sowing Rates

3-5kg/ha
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Indulgence

Italian Ryegrass

Indulgence

Indulgence is the world’s first diploid italian ryegrass with the feed quality of a tetraploid

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Indulgence is a unique diploid italian ryegrass with the feed quality of a tetraploid. It offers producers a variety with the quality of a tetraploid in a variety with the higher tiller density and persistence of a diploid. Indulgence also has excelent resistance to rust and will perform later into the late spring and summer than most other nil endophyte italian ryegrass

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Diploid Italian ryegrass
  • Outstanding feed quality
  • Excellent disease rating with very low rust

Benefits

  • High tillering and dense variety
  • Cool season quality benefits of a tetraploid. Warm season persistence and quality of a diploid
  • Late season feed maintaining high quality

Sowing Rates

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

Kikuyu, Prairie Grass and Phalaris

Jeronimo

Jeronimo is a new highly winter active prairie grass with a broad fit for pasture systems where rotational grazing is used.

A BROAD FIT FOR PASTURE SYSTEMS

Jeronimo has similar maturity to Matua and has excellent capacity for reseeding into pasture swards. It has much improved autumn/winter activity to ensure more feed when it is most needed. Jeronimo can be sown as the sole grass at high rates for intensive dairy production to provide a boost to autumn winter production. It is especially well suited to the sub tropics. It can also be used as a component of cocksfoot or tall fescue based perennial pastures to provide re-seeding into the pasture sward, especially around stock camps. It can also be used in mixes with lucerne to provide a balanced pasture with more winter production and no need for expensive winter cleaning.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Excellent palatability
  • Early maturity
  • Excellent production
  • Increased winter activity

Benefits

  • Has excellent palatability and quality even when seeding
  • More feed eaten for conversion to meat or milk
  • Suited to all pasture systems under rotational grazing
  • Greater performance than standards over the warm seasons
  • Enables excellent re-seeding for strong pasture regeneration
  • More feed when it is needed most

Sowing Rates

Sole grass with clover & herbs
25-50kg/ha
Perennial pasture mixes
4-5kg/ha
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Lazuly

Cocksfoot

Lazuly

Lazuly is a new type of soft leaf Oceanic (intermediate) cocksfoot with improved winter activity over Greenly.

GOOD GRAZING RECOVERY

Lazuly should be sown at higher sowing rates to produce a fine, dense soft sward. It has no adverse animal health effects from endophyte and good resistance to pasture pests. Lazuly has performed well in RAGT replicated trials and in commercial sowings in Australia. It has superior quality over other commercial varieties and is a replacement for the highly popular Greenly.

Suited to all livestock types

Features

  • New soft-leaf technology
  • Increased winter activity
  • Excellent production

Benefits

  • Ensures excellent palatability and quality. More feed eaten for conversion to meat or milk
  • Suited to all pasture seasons with good grazing recovery. Greater performance than standards over the warm seasons
  • A better option in marginal areas to perennial ryegrass and tall fescue
  • More feed when it is needed most

Sowing Rates

8 – 12kg/ha
4 – 6kg/ha in a mix
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Maté

Kikuyu, Prairie Grass and Phalaris

Maté

Maté is a highly winter active phalaris bred in Argentina with excellent autumn to spring forage production.

HIGH WINTER PRODUCTION

Maté is a about 2 weeks earlier flowering than Holdfast making it better suited to the 450–600mm mixed farming zone. It can also be sown in mixes with Landmaster or Australian for use in 600–700mm higher rainfall zone. It can be sown as the sole perennial grass with sub clover, or in a mix with summer active cocksfoot varieties for all year round feed. It is also suited to sowing at 0.5–1kg/ha with lucerne. Maté is the fastest phalaris in establishment giving it an advantage over other varieties in beating weed competition.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Good seedling vigour
  • Highly autumn/winter active
  • Early flowering
  • Summer dormancy

Benefits

  • Improved establishment. Greater first year yields
  • Improved persistence for better stand longevity
  • More feed when it is needed most
  • Improved persistence. Improved survival with summer active forages

Sowing Rates

Sole grass with clovers & herbs
3-4kg/ha
Pasture mixes
1-2kg/ha
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Medallion

Tall Fescue

Medallion

Medallion is a summer dormant mediterranean tall fescue. It has been selected to produce similar yields to existing types, but with lower NDF and higher ME for increased animal intake and liveweight gain

THE MEDAL WINNING WINTER ACTIVE FESCUE

Medallion It has shown excellent palatability and persistence in Australian trials. It has no endophyte and poses no animal health risks to grazing livestock, including horses and alpacas. Medallion is two weeks later flowering than current mediterranean varieties offered.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • High winter production
  • High summer dormancy
  • Excellent feed quality
  • Nil endophyte status

Benefits

  • Produces feed when it is most needed
  • This provides higher liveweight gain and milk per ha
  • Provides the plant with outstanding persistence, especially in areas of hot dry summers
  • Poses no animal health risks to all livestock classes

Sowing Rates

Sole grass with clovers
8-12kg/ha
Mixes with lucerne
4-6kg/ha
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Moa

Other Legumes

Moa

Moa is a late flowering soft seeded persian clover.

GENERAL FIT

Moa is a soft seeded, late-flowering persian clover which produces higher quality vegetative feed longer into the growing season .

It is a tall-erect, aerial seeding, annual type with thick, long and soft stems. It is adapted to a wide range of soil types and has good waterlogging tolerance making it ideal to plant with tetraploid annual ryegrass for winter grazing and spring lock-up for high quality silage or hay.

Moa is very palatable and highly digestible feed (20-23% crude protein), It is well suited to hay, grazing or silage production, and is especially successful in pasture mixes with oats targeted at increasing dry matter production. Its upright growth habit makes it more suited to planting as a companion legume with annual ryegrass and forage cereals.

And being late-flowering it retains quality later into the season than other persian clover varieties. It should be sown in early autumn for best results.

Moa Persian clover has excellent post grazing/silage cut recovery.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Late flowering
  • Tolerates waterlogging
  • Upright growth habit
  • Free of oestrogen

Benefits

  • Produces higher yields in long growing season or irrigated areas
  • Produces higher yields in long growing season or irrigated areas
  • Ideal companion for sowing with tetraploid annual ryegrass
  • Safe for grazing by or feeding to pregnant stock

Sowing Rates

Sole species
8-10kg/ha
In high rainfall or irrigated mixes
5-8kg/ha
Medium rainfall dryland mixes
3-5kg/ha
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Narrikup

Sub Clover

Narrikup

Narrikup is a very vigorous mid-late season subterraneum clover (ssp. subterraneum).

TOLERANCE TO REDLEGGED EARTH MITE

Narrikup is best suited to well-drained,moderately acid (pH CaCl2 4.5 – 6.5) soils in areas of southern Australia with approximately 500-700 mm mean annual rainfall and where the growing season extends to mid-November.

Emerging seedlings of Narrikup suffer less damage from redlegged earth mite than older subterraneum clovers.

Narrikup has high winter production, driven by strong seedling regeneration

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Increased winter feed
  • Improved seedling regeneration
  • Seedling redlegged earth mite tolerance
  • Mid season flowering
  • Increased spring feed

Benefits

  • Improved establishment. Greater first year yields. Reduced need for insecticide & application costs
  • Produces more feed in 500–700mm rainfall zone
  • 87% more winter feed to Campeda. 29% more winter feed to June
  • 13% more spring feed to Campeda. Similar spring feed to June

Sowing Rates

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

Tall Fescue

Nouga

Nouga is a new unique fine leaf tall fescue with leaf softness and palatability closer to perennial ryegrass.

GENERAL FIT

Nouga is a unique new fescue option, with outstanding palatability and improved feed quality over other fescue types. It has very late heading compared to other varieties meaning that it will remain vegetative longer into the spring to maintain quality for either grazing or fodder conservation. It has fine leaves with minimal serrations that are present in most other tall fescue varieties. As such Nouga more closely resembles perennial ryegrass in appearance, feel and acceptability by livestock. Nouga is extremely persistent due to its dense nature and has no fescue endophyte. It has an intermediate growth pattern better suited to much of Australia’s climate. 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

  • Fine, palatable leaves
  • Oceanic/Continental
  • High feed quality
  • Excellent disease tolerance

Benefits

  • Fine, densely tillered, well suited to grazing by livestock
  • Less serrations than traditional tall fescue leaf blades
  • Fast establishing, including over-sowing sub-tropical pastures
  • Improved yield potential and palatability

Sowing Rates

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

Forage Brassica

Pacer

Pacer has been bred as a replacement for Pasja by its plant breeder.

SETTING THE PACE

Pacer was selected from four breeder’s lines bred and evaluated for increased yield, improved regrowth and reduced bolting between grazings. In Australian and New Zealand trials it has shown rapid establishment, fast growth to first grazing and outstanding re-growth.

Stock Suitability: Dairy, Sheep & Beef

Features

  • Fast to first grazing
  • Improved re-growth potential
  • Higher yielding
  • Reduced bolting

Benefits

  • Can provide earlier feed for livestock
  • Can deliver more liveweight gain or milk per hectare
  • Provides more feed from later grazings
  • Provides better quality longer

Sowing Rates

3-5kg/ha
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Punter

Speciality forages

Punter

Punter is a deep rooted perennial chicory providing outstanding summer productivity and feed quality.

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Punter has high mineral uptake and is extremely persistent. It provides a high energy forage with proven animal health benefits and increased animal production at a time of year when pasture quality is low.

Being more winter active than some varieties, Punter can be sown at any time when there is adequate moisture for good germination and establishment.

Punter can be sown in autumn with ryegrass due to its establishment vigour and competitiveness in a sward. It can also be spring sown with other forages such as Pacer leafy turnip.

Suited to all livestock types

Features

  • Excellent quality feed
  • Persistent medium-term option
  • Low dense crown high tillering variety

Benefits

  • Suited to mixes for 3–5 years. Can regenerate from seed to thicken up in sward
  • Better establishment and year round feed. Ideal companion species to pastures mixes

Sowing Rates

Sole species
4-5kg/ha
Pasture mixes
1-2kg/ha
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Quest

Other Legumes

Quest

Quest is a high yielding large leaf and highly stoloniferous white clover with good persistence under grazing.

LARGE LEAF

Quest is well suited to sowing in pasture mixes for beef and dairy grazing where white clover will persist. It is highly winter active and can also set seed in most pasture swards. As such it has the ability to persist from its root system in favourable seasons, but also regenerate from seed during tough dry summers.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Good seedling vigour
  • Early flowering
  • Highly autumn/winter active

Benefits

  • Establishes well in mixed swards
  • Provides ease of grazing to all livestock
  • Provides improved recovery after grazing and persistence
  • Suited to inclusion in mixes in both winter and summer dominant rainfall regions and under irrigation

Sowing Rates

Sole species
6-10kg/ha
As sole clover with perennial grass
2-3kg/ha
With perennial grass and other clovers
1-2kg/ha
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Regency

Grazing Cereals

Regency

Regency is a unique new forage oat with prostrate growth habit and prolific tillering ability.

GENERAL FIT

The Regency’s early growth to first grazing is around 30-40% lower than traditional oats which is a real benefit when using oats as cover for newly sown pastures especially clovers. But after grazing its mid-season growth is 2-3 times that of all other forage oat varieties, giving higher overall total yield. As such it is recommended that it be grazed when it and any undersown species will withstand pulling. It has significantly more fine tillers than other oat varieties and narrow width leaves. Whilst Regency is a mid-season maturity variety it produces leafy tillers after it goes to head. It has shown good rust resistance in trials over 2017-2019 Regency has good warm start tolerance for northern sowings, but this can also enable it to be planted early with warm soil temperatures in southern zones to get it to first grazing faster – then watch its outstanding recovery.

Suited to all livestock types, silage and hay

Features

  • Good warm start option
  • High total yields
  • Prolific tillering after first grazing
  • High leaf productio n even when reproductive

Benefits

  •  Can be sown early into warm soil conditions
  • Great as a companion oat to enable undersown pasture species the ability to establish outstanding recovery and higher mid-season production than other varieties
  • Similar or better than other later maturity varieties
  • More quality leaf for late silage or hay cuts. Ideal for cutting at milky dough stage with high leaf content

Sowing Rates

Alone for the winter grazing and fodder conservation
50-80kg/ha
Sown with other species
25-40kg/ha
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RGT Accroc

Wheat

RGT Accroc

RGT Accroc is a bearded, medium-long growing season winter wheat with potential for high yields in the medium and high rainfall zone

FULL SEASON GROWING POTENTIAL

RGT Accroc is a bearded, medium-long growing season winter wheat with potential for high yields in the medium and high rainfall zone. It is a variety that has taken a high market share in France where its combination of earlier maturity, high yields and good grain quality has made it desirable for growers and end-users alike. The variety has a good disease resistance profile with very good resistance to stripe rust. With short stiff straw, harvest quality is good producing large bold grain with a high thousand grain weight.

Type – Winter red wheat
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Seedling Vigour – Excellent
Grazing Potential – Very good autumn and winter
Sowing Zones – NW & SW slopes , S Tablelands NSW, N Victoria (irrigation), S Victoria, South-east SA, Tasmania

Features

  • Full season growing potential
  • Early heading and maturing
  • High yield potential
  • Short stiff straw
  • ncreased income potential for autumn/winter grazing when sown early

Benefits

Sowing Rates

80-120kg/ha
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