AusWest MAXImiser® 'New England Fescue
Enterprise Type
Sowing Rate
25 ha/kgRainfall / Irrigation
700mm+Our Maximiser® New England Fescue mix is custom built for high performing basalt and heavier trap soils. Tall fescue is the “King Of Spring” bringing forward your spring flush. The deep root system of Tall fescue allows it to access moisture at depth, otherwise unavailable to shallower rooted pasture plants. Hummer Max P tall fescue
is routinely among the top performing varieties at Toombs. It is a soft leaf variety giving it excellent stock acceptance and increased livestock performance.
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Hummer
Hummer is a summer active tall fescue with high yield for all seasons. It can be used for different purposes in farming systems as it tolerates heavy, wet and moderately saline soils compared to perennial ryegrass. It demonstrates strong disease tolerance and high tiller density with a spreading growth habit, designed to match persistence expectations on dairy, beef and sheep farms.
Hummer also has better heat tolerance, productivity and feed quality over summer compared to perennial ryegrass, whilst providing better water use efficiency under irrigation.
Sowing rate:
20-25 kg/ha alone
15-25 kg/ha with clovers
- Endo
- 600mm+
Ecotain®
Ecotain® - The Plant
Ecotain® environmental plantain is a mineral rich perennial grazing herb. Ecotain® is fast establishing and tolerant to a wide range of soils. This includes less fertile soils and especially dryland regions of approximately 600 mm rainfall. Ecotain® has a deep coarse root system, which gives it a degree of drought tolerance and the ability to respond quickly after summer dry conditions. Ecotain® pastures offer some great animal performance potential for sheep, beef and dairy farmers, particularly in winter and spring, as well as supporting a high level of animal health, reduced incidence of dags in sheep and good micronutrient supply. Pure stands of Ecotain® can be used during lambing to increase lamb and ewe weights at weaning.
Ecotain® has also been shown to reduce the amount of N lost from farm systems. Ecotain® can reduce N leaching from the urine patch by up to 89%*.
Ecotain® can be sown alone as a pure stand or recommended in perennial pasture mixes, especially medium term, quality finishing mixes (refer page 53, SPS Signature Range - Autumn Ecotain® Blends).
Sowing rates for mixes:
3-5kg/ha in perennial pasture mix
6-8kg/ha when mixed with clover
4kg/ha in a lucerne stand
6-8kg/ha when mixed with 2kg/ha brassica
- 600mm+
Atom
Atom is a large leaf prairie grass with a palatable seedhead and high protein content, providing high quality year-round feed as nil endophyte forage. It proves an excellent long season option with strong summer heat tolerance as well as good winter production, and is perfectly suited to rotational grazing systems.
Sowing rate:
30-50 kg/ha alone
- 600mm+
Mainstay
A new highly productive, large leaf variety with high stolen density normally seen in smaller leaf varieties. Displays both persistence and high drymatter yields, making it ideal for use in high performance pastures. Has excellent heat tolerance and would be ideally suited in dairying pastures under irrigation.
Sowing rate:
3-5 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha in a mix
- 800mm+
- Large
Nomad
A small to medium leaved white clover, Nomad was selected for increased persistence and drought tolerance, being especially suited to dry environments. It performs excellently under dryland sheep grazing and grows mostly in spring, summer and autumn. Nomad has high nutritive value and is relatively tolerant of acidic soils, with great stolon density allowing it to persist in areas prone to low summer soil moisture levels.
Sowing rate:
3-5 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha in a mix
- 600mm+
- Small
Relish
Relish red clover offers superior persistence within grazing systems, with a semi-prostrate growth habit and high yield potential. As a perennial species it contains low levels of oestrogen and is highly productive in early spring, making it a suitable pure stand choice for lambs or in permanent mixes for quality grazing, hay or silage.
Sowing rate:
10 kg/ha alone
4-6 kg/ha in a mix
- 700mm+