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Product Description

• Seed Agronomy Table

  Seeding Rate - Dryland (kg/ha)

  1 - 3

  Seeding Rate - High Rainfall/Irrigation (kg/ha)

  4 - 8

  Leaf Type

  3 - 5 years

  Growth

  All year round

  Dry Matter

  High

  Drought Tolerance

  High

• Seed Treatment

  XLR8™

• Enterprises For This Seed

  Beef and Sheep

  Dairy

  Viticulture and Horticulture

• Plant Description
  Plant

  Erect, leafy, perennial herb with a deep, dense, branching fibrous root system.

  Leaves

  Rosette of broad leaves from central crown. Leaves up to 25 centimetres long, often purplish at the base and each with 3 to 5 longitudinal ribs. Fine hairs on upper surface; hairy along the lower side ribs.

  Flowers

  Tiny, four parted, creamy white flowers with long stamens. Flowers during midsummer. Flower stems are erect, furrowed, leafless, and up to 50 centimetres long.

  Seedhead

  A single spike per stem, up to 2.5 centimetres long, cone-shaped orcylindrical, very compact grey-green turning dark brown-black on ripening.

  Seeds

  1 millimetre and oval; black-brown. 500,000 per kilogram.

• Pasture Type And Use

  Valuable component of permanent.

• Rainfall

  Greater than 800 millimetres.

• Soils

  Tolerates a broad range of soil types, fertility and pH.

• Temperature

  Wide climate adaption; tolerant of frost; relatively heat tolerant.

• Establishment
  Grasses

  Phalaris, cocksfoot, tall fescue, Bromus spp.

  Legumes

  Sub, white and red clover.

  Sowing/Planting Rates In Mixtures

  4 to 6 kilograms per hectare with specialist clover pastures, 2 to 4 kilograms per hectare with grass pastures or Brassica fodder spp.

  Sowing/Planting Rates as Single Species

  4 to 8 kilograms per hectare.

  Sowing Time

  Sow in autumn/spring after pre-emergent weed control.

  Fertiliser

  Sow with approximately equal to 10 to 15 kilograms per hectare.

• Management
  Maintenance Fertiliser

  10 kilograms P per hectare.

  Grazing/Cutting

  Can tolerate continuous and close grazing. Graze rotationally to gain maximum production. A 3 to 4 week rotation in late spring will maintain seed head palatability. Can use for silage/hay.

  Ability to Spread

  Yes. Regenerates from self-sown seed. Is a widely naturalised species.

  Weed Potential

  Pollen contains allergens associated with asthma and bronchitis.

  Major Pests

  Red legged earth mite, slugs, snails.

  Herbicide Susceptibility

  Glyphosate and phenoxy based chemicals (2,4-D, MCPA).

  Fodder or Crops

  Brassica spp.

• Animal Production
  Feeding Value

  Good quality feed. High mineral concentrations including copper, zinc, selenium, cobalt. This widely used medicinal herb contains various secondary metabolites with recognised tonic and antibiotic properties; these may benefit stock/rumen flora.

  Production Potential

  Good spring autumn production.

• Establishment Guarantee

  At S&W Seed Company Australia we're so confident about our seed genetics and seed quality, we will replace seed at half the original purchase price if it fails to establish satisfactorily in the first thirty days* Read more