Sorrento Diploid Italian Ryegrass

Product Description

• Seed Agronomy Table

  Seeding Rate - Dryland (kg/ha)

  15-20

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

  20 - 25

  Flowering

  + 16 days

  Maturity

  Very late

  Life Span

  1 - 3 years

• Seed Treatment

  XLR8™ optional

• Enterprises For This Seed

  Beef and Sheep

  Dairy

  Equine

  Silage and Hay

  Viticulture and Horticulture

• Strengths

  Italian ryegrass (biennial type) Very strong cool season growth and nutritive value

• Limitations

  Longevity (2 years); may occasionally be greater in moist, pest-free situations and rotational grazing

• Pasture Type And Use

  Short term pasture offering high winter yields and enhanced nutritive value.

• Rainfall

  Greater than 700 millimetres+.

• Soils

  Medium-heavy texture, high fertility (eg. Olsen P, 0 to 10 centimetres, less than 12 milligrams per kilogram).

• Temperature

  Cold and frost tolerant, mild summer desirable.

• Establishment
  Legumes

  White clover, sub clover and Persian clover. Other: Forage brassicas.

  Sowing/Planting Rates In Mixtures

  10-18 kilograms per hectare.

  Sowing/Planting Rates as Single Species

  10 to 25 kilograms per hectare.

  Sowing Time

  Autumn and spring in favourable environments.

  Inoculation

  P and possible N at sowing.

• Management
  Maintenance Fertiliser

  10 kilograms P per hectare. Monitor S, K, Cu especially. Supply N by clover/fertiliser.

  Grazing/Cutting

  Graze at 2 1/2 to 3 leaf stage to optimise yield under rotational grazing. Cut at early flowering for peak nutritive value.

  Ability to Spread

  Will spread from seed in cool good rainfall environments: seed set will occur if ungrazed/not cut and this will be associated with a substantial tradeoff in nutritive value.

  Weed Potential

  Low unless allowed to set seed.

  Major Pests

  Red and black-headed cockchafer, black field cricket, whitefringed weevil, African black beetle.

  Major Diseases

  Crown rust - especially in humid regions; stem rust.

  Herbicide Susceptibility

  Glyphosate.

• Animal Production
  Feeding Value

  High.

  Palatability

  Palatable.

  Production Potential

  High.

  Livestock Disorders/Toxicity

  Livestock disorders on Italian ryegrass are rare. As with other fast growing forages, nitrate toxicity can occur in certain conditions. Bacterial infection of seedhead can occasionally occur and result in ergot poisoning.

• 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