HYBRID 4x4

4 cuts, 4 years

  • HYBRID 4x4 is a highly productive hybrid ryegrass cutting ley, designed to last for four years and provide four cuts each year.
  • It’s designed for a three or four year rotation system, delivering 10% higher yield than traditional perennial ryegrass mixtures.
  • A key benefit of this mixture is that it offers multiple exits and entries for slurry / digestate application, using home produced nutrients more efficiently, saving valuable time and resources.
  • Short Term
  • Medium Term
  • Long Term

Key benefits

  • HYBRID 4x4 has a very tight heading date range for optimal quality throughout the season
  • Excellent resistance to disease
  • This mixture does not contain clover, allowing more flexible weed control option
  • Ideal in a medium term rotation
  • Multiple opportunities for slurry / digestate application, using home produced nutrients more efficiently
  • Will produce 20% more yield than perennial ryegrass leys, due to its ability to use all nutrients very efficiently via its long season growth and usage of deep rooting varieties

 

HYBRID 4x4 is a highly productive hybrid ryegrass cutting ley, designed to last for four years and provide four cuts each year. It’s designed for a three or four year rotation system, delivering 10% higher yield than perennial ryegrass mixtures.

 

Early spring growth gets the season off to a good start, and up to four cuts can be taken per year. This mix is ideal for large production of biomass, either for stored feed or anaerobic digestion.

 

A grass only blend also provides increased chemical weed control options, making this mixture useful in rotations to clean up fields. In addition, blackgrass seed shed can be reduced by repeatedly cutting heads and reducing regrowth.

 

Anaerobic Digestion

High-yielding grass crops can be grown specifically for biogas production in anaerobic digestion (AD), either alone of in stabilising or supplementing other feed stocks such as variable quality food waste.

 

Rotational benefits

Hybrid ryegrasses can be used effectively in cropping rotations, providing a medium term break between other crop types. High quantity and quality grass blends mean a diversification of land use. In grass-based systems, medium term leys can also be used to boost feed and animal productivity, to accelerate reseeding programs, and give flexible management options.

 

  • Excellent addition to other feed stocks
  • Enables efficient utilisation of digestate
  • Lower environmental impact
  • Ability to sequester carbon into the root matrix
  • Improves soil health and structure
  • Reduced soil erosion and nutrient leaching
  • Lower production costs
Composition
Variety
Species
4.00kg
Barclamp
Hybrid Ryegrass Dip.
4.00kg
Kirial
Hybrid Ryegrass Tetr.
4.00kg
Bannfoot
Hybrid Ryegrass Tetr.
2.00kg
Barsilo
Hybrid Ryegrass Dip.
Specifications
Sowing rate/acre
14kg per acre
Sowing depth
Up to 10mm
Soil temperature
>6°C
Min cutting/grazing height
1500DM ~8cm
Pack size
14kg
Multi-species
Herbal Ley
Cover Crop
Clover
Silage
Grazing
Dairy
Beef
Sheep
Mixed Livestocks
Environmental
AD
Organic
England and Wales
Scotland
Northern Ireland
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Grass for Agriculture

The Barenbrug UK range of grass and clover mixtures, for all types of farms, are created to suit each type of grassland and farm management system, providing environmental benefits, biodiversity, high-quality forage yield, better palatability and improved animal health. Use our grass mixture selector tool.

The Barenbrug UK range of grass and clover mixtures, for all types of farms, are created to suit each type of grassland and farm management system, providing environmental benefits, biodiversity, high-quality forage yield, better palatability and improved animal health. Use our...

The Barenbrug UK range of grass and clover mixtures, for all types of farms, are created to suit each type of grassland and farm management system, providing environmental benefits, biodiversity, high-quality forage yield, better palatability and improved animal health. Use our grass mixture selector tool.

Recommended Grass List

Barenbrug UK is a leading organisation within the Recommended Grass and Clover lists, which are drawn up after rigorous testing for attributes such as yield, persistency, quality and disease resistance. With data coming from Barenbrug UK’s own trial site, Cropvale, and evaluated by a panel of experts, these lists can help to decide which variety will suit your requirements. Visit our recommended grass seed pages to see the latest lists.

Barenbrug UK is a leading organisation within the Recommended Grass and Clover lists, which are drawn up after rigorous testing for attributes such as yield, persistency, quality and disease resistance. With data coming from Barenbrug UK’s own trial site, Cropvale, and evaluated...

Barenbrug UK is a leading organisation within the Recommended Grass and Clover lists, which are drawn up after rigorous testing for attributes such as yield, persistency, quality and disease resistance. With data coming from Barenbrug UK’s own trial site, Cropvale, and evaluated by a panel of experts, these lists can help to decide which variety will suit your requirements. Visit our recommended grass seed pages to see the latest lists.