Origin Winter Active Tall Fescue

Product Description

• Seed Agronomy Table

  Seeding Rate - Dryland (kg/ha)

  10 - 15

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

  20 - 25

  Life Span

  7+ years

  Drought Tolerance

  Y

• Seed Treatment

  XLR8™ optional

• Enterprises For This Seed

  Beef and Sheep

  Silage and Hay

  Viticulture and Horticulture

• Strengths

  Persistence in low summer-rainfall climates

• Limitations

  Requires moderate soil fertility. No summer production. Poor ability to compete with summer weeds.

• Pasture Type And Use

  Long-term summer-dormant pasture.

• Rainfall

  Greater than 500 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, tolerates hot summers.

• Establishment
  Sowing Time

  Autumn only

• Animal Production
  Feeding Value

  Good feed value.

  Palatability

  Palatable. Stems need to be controlled in spring.

  Production Potential

  High

  Livestock Disorders/Toxicity

  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