Riesling White Clover

Product Description

• Seed Agronomy Table

  Seeding Rate - Dryland (kg/ha)

  3 - 4

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

  5 - 8

  Hard Seed Level Description

  Medium

  Waterlogging Tolerance

  Good

• Seed Treatment

  Goldstrike®

• Enterprises For This Seed

  Beef and Sheep

  Dairy

  Silage and Hay

  Viticulture and Horticulture

• Strengths

  High nutritive value and year Round growth Well adapted to grazing

• Limitations

  Vigour limited by viral diseases Low tolerance to summer moisture stress

• Plant Description
  Plant

  Rhizomatous, prostrate perennial with stolons from crown rooting at nodes. Some stolons may be buried.

  Stems

  Smooth, hairless. Stipules short, needle-point on bluntish end. Spherical seed head.

  Leaves

  Trifoliate, leaflets oval or heart shape may have light crescent mark on upper side. Smooth, hairless.

  Flowers

  30 to 40 white/seed heads dense clusters on long stalk; globe shaped to 2.5 centimetre diameter, pale pink/ white, fade to brown.

  Pods

  Small, oblong pods containing 3 to 4 seeds.

  Seeds

  Brown/yellow; egg/heart-shape, approximately equal to 1.6 million per kilogram.

• Pasture Type And Use

  Most productive perennial for high rainfall/irrigated pasture; can maintain presence through ability to recruit seedlings. Vigorous growth in spring/summer can facilitate considerable nitrogen fixation by dominant stands.

• Rainfall

  Greater than 700 millimetres.

• Soils

  Suited to a wide range of soil pH less than 4.5; optimum 5.3. Tolerates low exchangeable aluminium and poorly drained soils. Well suited to peaty soil.

• Temperature

  Cold and frost tolerant. Optimum range, 18 to 30°C.

• Establishment
  Grasses

  Most temperate and subtropical spp. including perennial ryegrass, phalaris, tall fescue, kikuyu, paspalum, Rhodes grass and Setaria.

  Legumes

  Strawberry clover, red clover and sub clovers.

  Sowing/Planting Rates In Mixtures

  0.5 to 2 kilograms per hectare. Ensure seed is Goldstrike® treated.

  Sowing/Planting Rates as Single Species

  3 to 8 kilograms per hectare; sow at 5 to 15 millimetres into a clean, finely worked seed bed and roll. Ensure seed is Goldstrike® treated.

  Sowing Time

  Autumn or Spring.

  Inoculation

  Goldstrike® treated. The use of Goldstrike® XLR8™ seed treatment is recommended to reduce damage from insects at seedling stages.

  Fertiliser

  Correct any nutrient deficiencies, especially K, P, Mo, S, Cu, B.

  Herbs

  Plantain, chicory.

• Management
  Maintenance Fertiliser

  For optimum growth Olsen soil P greater than 15.

  Grazing/Cutting

  Very suitable for silage/hay. Excellent cattle pasture. Can be grazed hard but is susceptible to sustained heavy grazing by sheep in dry conditions; densely stoloniferous but varies with cultivars, small leaved cultivars are less susceptible.

  Ability to Spread

  Recruits seedlings well; cattle effectively spread seed via dung.

  Weed Potential

  Moderate on disturbed land free of competitive species only. Prolific seed set and some hard seed dispersed by livestock.

  Major Pests

  Red legged earth mite, lucerne flea, corbies, cockchafers, webworm, nematodes, cutworms, budworms, reticulated slug.

  Major Diseases

  Fungal: Clover rot (Sclerotinia trifoliorum) Wart disease (Physoderma trifolii). Viral: Alfalfa Mosaic Virus, White Clover Mosaic Virus, Clover Yellow Vein Virus. Mycoplasma: Phyllody.

  Herbicide Susceptibility

  A wide range of weeds may be encountered. When choosing selective herbicides, consider the stage of growth of the white clover and what non-target companion species are present.

• Animal Production
  Feeding Value

  High; nutritive value decline with maturity is considerably less than for most other species.

  Palatability

  Palatable.

  Production Potential

  Good autumn and spring/early summer vigour; good winter-active cvv are available for districts (e.g. coastal) with milder winter.

  Livestock Disorders/Toxicity

  High bloat risk if dominant in spring. May contain cyanogenic glucoside compounds; the concentration is rarely sufficient to be significant.

• Establishment Guarantee

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