Loader Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass

Product Description

• Seed Agronomy Table

  Seeding Rate - Dryland (kg/ha)

  20-30

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

  25 - 30

  Seeding Rate - Cereal Mixes

  10-18

  Flowering

  + 16 days

  Maturity

  Very late

  Life Span

  < 1 years

• Seed Treatment

  XLR8™ optional

• Enterprises For This Seed

  Beef and Sheep

  Dairy

  Silage and Hay

  Viticulture and Horticulture

• Strengths

  Very strong cool season growth and good nutritive value, extended growth and quality throughout spring

• Limitations

  Short-lived when compared with perennial and Italian ryegrasses

• Plant Description
  Plant

  Annual.

  Leaves

  Hairless; blades up to 400 times 12 millimetres; young leaves rolled in bud.

  Seedhead

  Spike up to 30 centimetres long; spikelets edge-on to the rachis which is recessed opposite each spikelet; 10 to 20 florets/spikelet, laterally flattened up to 25 millimetres long. Straight, fine awn up to 10 millimetres.

  Seeds

  230,000 to 250,000 tetraploid.

• Pasture Type And Use

  Short term pasture and high-yielding silage/hay crop.

• Rainfall

  Greater than 600 millimetres+.

• Soils

  Medium-heavy texture; high fertility.

• Temperature

  Cold tolerant.

• Establishment
  Grassses and/or Cereals

  Annual ryegrass and forage cereals.

  Legumes

  Medic, red and persian clovers. Other: Forage brassicas.

  Sowing/Planting Rates In Mixtures

  14-22 kilograms per hectare.

  Sowing/Planting Rates as Single Species

  20 to 30 kilograms per hectare.

  Sowing Time

  Autumn.

  Inoculation

  P and N.

• Management
  Maintenance Fertiliser

  Especially P and N.

  Grazing/Cutting

  Well suited to fodder conservation. Strip or rotational grazing facilitates efficient utilisation and maximum regrowth. Graze at 2.5 to 3 leaf stage.

  Ability to Spread

  Will spread from seed; seed set will occur if ungrazed/not cut and this will be associated with a substantial trade off in nutritive value.

  Weed Potential

  Low unless allowed to set seed.

  Major Pests

  Red and black-headed cockchafer, black field cricket, white-fringed weevil, African black beetle, corbies, underground grass caterpillar.

  Major Diseases

  Rust.

  Herbicide Susceptibility

  Glyphosate.

• Animal Production
  Feeding Value

  High.

  Palatability

  Palatable.

  Production Potential

  High winter growth; rapid spring growth preflowering early summer.

  Livestock Disorders/Toxicity

  Livestock disorders on annual 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