Mainstar
Forage Rape
Mainstar is a short type brassica that has excellent regrowth potential after grazing, giving it the ability to respond to
moisture after long periods of summer dry. It has increased forage yields over other short type brassicas. Animal testing
during the breeding process found Mainstar to have a higher leaf percentage and superior animal preference over
other short type brassicas. Mainstar can be grazed 10-12 weeks after sowing.
Key Features:
- Early maturing, 10-12 weeks
- Highly palatable
- Excellect regrowth potential
- Tolerant to aphids
- High leaf percentage and superior animal preference
Sowing Rate:
- 3-4 kg/ha alone, 1-2 kg/ha in herb mixes
Suggested Sowing Time:
- August to November (Spring sowing) or February to April (Autumn sowing)
Time to first grazing:
10 to 12 weeks
Number of grazings:
2 to 4
Potential yield:
(depending on number of grazings)
Up to 10 tDM/ha
Downloads
Herb and Brassica Guide 2019
I watched the lambs closely to see if they had any preference for the different varieties and how long they took to get stuck into grazing the brassica's. Within 3 days, the lambs had clearly made a choice and had virtually cleaned up the Mainstar.
- Name: Stuart Kemp
- Location: Meredith, VIC
Mainstar rape showed superior tolerance to aphid attack enabling a good wedge of high protein feed to be used into February to grow out our weaner lambs.
- Name: Andrew Kirk
- Location: Warrambeen, VIC
Spring sown Mainstar rape at Weerite that's about knee high and ready for grazing
- Name: Shaun Stephen Pasture Seeds
- Location: Camperdown, VIC
Autumn sown Mainstar Brassica at Katunga
- Name: Mark Palmer - SPS
- Location: Katunga, VIC
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Spring sown Mainstar forage rape, regrowth after two grazings. Is providing high quality palatable forage for lambs.
- Name: Craig - Stephen Pasture Seeds
- Location: Selbourne, TAS
Found some smiling lambs on my travels around Winchelsea grazing a new brassica, Mainstar forage rape.
- Name: Shaun SPS HQ
- Location: Winchelsea, VIC
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Mainstar forage rape ready to graze, on a mixed farm near Deloraine, in Northern Tasmania. This crop will provide feed for lambs.
- Name: Craig Stephen Pasture Seeds
- Location: Deloraine, Northern Tasmania, TAS
We ate the Mainstar down to the ground and it came back really well. We fatten 50 lambs to the hectare, at the end of January the paddock was just dust, we had 18mm of rain and it came away again.
- Location: Munro
The left side is Mainstar/Shiroe mix and right is Winfred/Shiroe mix with no fencing between. The sheep heavily prefered to graze the Mainstar first, which shows to the airseeder row
- Name: Mathew Hall
- Location: Stawell, VIC
Mainstar rape. Extremely impressed. Can't wait to grow more.
- Name: Lauren Meade
- Location: Cobden, VIC
Winfred (left) vs Mainstar (Right) in a palatabilty trial. Lambs almost solely ate the Mainstar making it look like a hot wire had been put up stopping them from grazing the industry benchmark Winfred.
- Name: Josh Brown
- Location: Hensley Park, VIC
Mainstar Brassica sown September 2016.
- Name: Daniel Lewis
- Location: Goulburn, NSW
Second grazing of mainstar rape 8 week after first grazing excellent insect resistance and has had a 10% better conversion to milk solids over Winfred
- Name: Brett Craig
- Location: Swan Marsh, VIC
Mainstar has shown exceptional insect tolerance and regrowth. I am also impressed by initial acceptance by animals to Mainstar. Brassicas provide cost effective quality feed sources when pasture quality is low or quantity is limited.
- Name: Adrian Keith
- Location: Taralga, NSW