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Rhodes
Varieties available: Callide, Katambora, Pioneer, Nemkat, Finecut, Golfcut & Topcut
Sowing Rate
3-12 kg/ha SowEasy KickStartRainfall / Irrigation Rainfall
600mm+- Widely adapted depending on variety
- Poor persistence on low fertility soils
- Moderate tolerance of salinity and acidity
- Easily established
Soil type: Well structured loams, volcanic clays
Sowing rate:
Envirogro® 2-12 kg/ha
SowEasy Kickstart® 3-12 kg/ha
Seed Mixes Seed Mixes Show All
This product is available in the following mixes:
NSW MAXImiser™ Slopes Security Mix
This is a popular mix with many producers who have tried tropicals. It provides the greatest security with a range of species that produce fee year in-year out.
- 600mm+
MAXImiser™ Light Soil Mix
This mix provides palatability, persistence, and ground cover to keep weeds at bay. Gone are the days of planting tropicals on your sandy soils and struggling with palatability.
- 600mm+
QLD MAXImiser™ Heavy Soil Mix
This mix is able to handle heavy clay soils with good water holding capacity. It contains highly digestible and very productive grasses and legumes. The legumes have been selected to take advantage of seasonal rainfalls. This mix will have a good spring growth response after winter frosts and has long season productivity from spring into autumn.
- 600mm+
QLD MAXImiser™ Coastal Soil Mix
MAXImiser Coastal Soil Mix contains high quality grasses and legumes that are suited to high rainfall regions. It provides very good ground cover from the stoloniferous and densely tufted species included. This mix tolerates acid and free draining sandier soils. It is highly productive under intensive management and tolerates heavy grazing.
- 600mm+
Queensland Summer Horse Mix
A careful selection with tetraploid rhodes grass for quality and quantity of summer growth, plus a bluegrass species ensures this quality but also adds drought tolerance in case of unfavourable conditions. Combine this with prairie grass for winter, spring activity, then add lucerne and a vigorous white clover and there is potential for hay production as well.
Soil type
Wide range
Annual rainfall
550 mm+
Sowing rate
20-30 kg/ha
Fertility
Medium-high
Persistence*
4 years+
Sowing time
Autumn
Establishment
Fast
*Persistence will be influenced by a number of facts and is not guaranteed
Please note: All equine pastures MUST be rested throughout the year and should never be overgrazed during the summer period. Please refer to our Equine Mix brochure for more management tips.
- 550mm+
QLD MAXImiser Light Soil Mix
This is a very productive mixture of high quality grasses and legumes that are suitable to lighter textured free draining soils to sandy loams. The mix provides long season productivity from spring to autumn. The grasses typically have good stoloniferous growth habits and have strong growth in spring. The mix also contains a diverse range of legumes.
- 600mm+
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