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Utilisation: Eight weeks post-sowing
Sowing period: Spring & summer
Graze before crop reaches 20cm. Leave 5cm residual.
Advantages
- Improved soil health and aids drainage
- Recovers quickly after grazing
- Deep tap root, delivering drought tolerance
- Can be grown alone or with other crops
- Performs better in dry conditions
- High mineral content
- High protein content of 17-18%
- Ideal to fatten lambs
- Tolerant to frost
- Anthelmintic properties useful to ruminant livestock
Expert Advice
- Limited cool season DM production/grazing
- Seed head control for weeds, limiting seed shed
- Needs a nitrogen source; ideally establish with clover blends
- Shallow sown at around 1cm deep
Sowing rate:
1kg/acre (2.5kg/ha) in a grassland mixture
3kg/acre (7.5/ha) as a straight with clover
Pack size: 5kg