Choice
Choice is a perennial chicory herb demonstrating 3-4 year persistence and a high level of summer dry matter production. This inexpensive herb provides high forage quality and warm-season pasture growth, with a deep taproot resulting in a consistent growth rate, even during dry spells.
Choice chicory can be added to new grass pasture mixes to boost animal performance and feed production.
Sowing rate:
6-10 kg/ha alone
1-5 kg/ha in a mix
This Choice chicory was planted near Exeter on 12 September 2018. The plot was cut to 10cm high on the 14th of January and by the 1st of February it had grown back to 30cm high, with little rainfall. Chicory can produce large quantities of drymatter in hot dry conditions.
- Name: Greg - AusWest Seeds
- Location: Exeter, NSW
This Choice chicory in Ballarat, has had 15 mm of rain for the last 2.5 months.
- Name: Hamish, AusWest & Stephen Pasture Seeds
- Location: Leigh Creek, VIC
This paddock used to be full of bladey grass, tussock and lantana. Now its a lush high production paddock of Choice chicory, red & white clovers, Rhodes grass and perennial rye. To say this farmer is happy with the result is an understatement.
- Name: Stephen Coombes
- Location: Gloucester NSW, NSW
Check out the taproot on the Choice chicory plants we dug up today. The deep taproot helps Choice to make the best of rain and irrigation and produce more feed during a dry spring summer period.
- Name: Aaron - AusWest Seeds
- Location: ARMIDALE, NSW
Choice being used as a finishing crop and grass clean up crop.
- Name: Mark Palmer - SPS
- Location: Nathalia, VIC
Not normally a species for tablelands pastures, Choice Chicory sown with a mix of white clovers is to provide a quality source of feed for spring - autumn without the need for resowing. Early days, I am confident we made the right Choice. Ha.
- Name: Adrian Keith
- Location: Black Springs, NSW