Grasses
Ryegrass Ryegrass
Knight
Knight is a fast establishing Italian diploid ryegrass that yields outstanding growth and performance in all seasons. Knight stands and delivers during winter and summer when you need your paddocks to be working hardest. Ideal for grazing, hay and silage, Knight has good tolerance to rust and its reputation as a fast starter has gained a strong following with milk and meat producers throughout Australia.
Sowing rate:
20-25 kg/ha alone
10-20 kg/ha with clovers
- Diploid
- 600mm+
Manta
Manta Italian ryegrass is the latest diploid Italian ryegrass genetics from Agricom. Manta has explosive establishment speed being the fastest starting material we have seen to date. This fast establishment allows farmers to plant with confidence, growing quick feed before winter sets in.
Manta has strong cool season growth with excellent spring yield, it's our highest yielding diploid Italian to date, meaning more grass grown for meat, milk and hay production. It has been commercialized based on Australian data for Australian conditions and will be versatile enough to perform across all temperate ryegrass regions in Australia.
Key features:
Very fast establishment speed
Strong cool season growth
Visually impressive, large leaf compared to other diploid Italians
Impressive spring growth
Late season high quality
2nd year persistence in soft environments
Sowing rate:
25kg/ha pure OR 20kg/ha with legume or herbs
Ploidy:
Diploid
Heading date:
+15
Persistence:
1 year (or 2 if very soft environment)
Best grazing practice:
Rotational
- Diploid
- 600mm+
Thumpa
Thumpa is selected for rapid establishment and high yield - classic qualities of being a tetraploid Italian ryegrass. Quick growth ensures early feed for grazing or silage options and its late flowering characteristics keep the pasture yields up right through until later in the season. Ideal for rotational grazing, Thumpa is an excellent winter crop solution for Australian and New Zealand farmers.
Key features:
Thumpa is a leading high quality and high yielding tetraploid Italian ryegrass
Thumpa’s strong seedling vigour and early winter growth makes it an ideal variety for producing a valuable feed wedge going into winter
The late flowering nature of Thumpa and being a tetraploid makes for high quality late season forage, ideal for grazing, silage and hay
Thumpa remains dense into the second year with excellent overall production
Sowing rate:
25-30 kg/ha alone
20-25 kg/ha with clovers and herbs
Ploidy:
Tetraploid
Heading date:
+22
Persistence:
1-2 years
- Tetraploid
- 600mm+
Avalon
Avalon is a late flowering perennial ryegrass bred for improved persistence. It is highly productive, disease resistant, and most importantly, long lasting.
Avalon is highly productive through winter and into late spring, with fine leafed foliage and a dense growth habit. It is extremely versatile and performs well with all stock types, particularly dry land and dairy production areas. Avalon performs well in sheep and beef zones due to its strong production and persistence traits.
Sowing rate:
20-25 kg/ha alone
15-20 kg/ha with clovers
- Endo
- Diploid
- 600mm+
Halo
Halo AR37 is a late-heading tetraploid perennial ryegrass with very strong year-round performance and persistence. It produces a medium leaf size and increased tiller density, contributing to its summer quality and exceptional growth. With added protection from AR37 novel endophyte, Halo has increased pest tolerance along with improved regrowth potential and reduced aftermath seed head production.
Halo AR37 is ideal for stock finishing and dairying systems in fertile environments, due to increased summer production and quality, and is also suited to areas where other tetraploids do not persist due to high insect pressure. Very late flowering, and with excellent summer quality, Halo is likely to improve liveweight gain on finishing operations and milk production on dairy farms.
Sowing rate:
25-35 kg/ha alone
20-25 kg with clovers
Read our latest system work on 'Improving lamb growth rates using new ryegrass and endophyte technology'
- Endo
- Tetraploid
- 700mm+
Kingsgate
Kingsgate is a mid-flowering perennial ryegrass and a strong performer in the Australian persistence market. It is densely tillered and offers good early-spring production with strong rust resistance levels.
Bred specifically to replace Kingston, Kingsgate has excellent low aftermath heading - a trait not common in early and mid-heading perennial ryegrasses - and performs well in low fertility areas and marginal country. It comes in standard endophyte and is best suited to sheep and beef grazing areas.
Sowing rate:
20-25 kg/ha alone
15-20 kg with clovers
- Endo
- Diploid
- 600mm+
One50
One50 is a new generation late-heading perennial ryegrass providing outstanding drymatter production and high quality feed for silage and hay. It is high yielding and offers excellent summer, autumn and winter production with strong quality late feed.
Due to One50's late-heading date it maintains vegetative leaf production into late-spring and early-summer, making pasture management easier. Recommended for rotational grazing, One50 is available with AR37 endophyte for improved persistence and production advantages.
Sowing rate:
20-25 kg/ha alone
15-20 kg/ha with clovers
- Endo
- Diploid
- 700mm+
Prospect
Prospect is a new-generation mid-season, late-heading perennial diploid ryegrass providing excellent yields. Characterised by a dense fine-leaved habit, one of its main strengths is its reliable all-year-round production.
Prospect has proven its excellent adaptation to a wide range of environments from hill country to highly productive dairy pastures. Bred and selected with AR37 novel endophyte, its densely tillered, fine leaf nature enables it to recover from hard grazing once established and leads to good persistence under tough conditions.
Sowing rate:
20-25 kg/ha alone
15-20 kg/ha with clovers
- Endo
- Diploid
- 700mm+
Cocksfoot Cocksfoot
Megatas
Megatas is a highly summer active cocksfoot with a very high level of palatability as per digestibility and nutritive value. Ideally suited to high production dairy or beef systems, Megatas consistently produces high dry matter yields with excellent seedling vigour and high tiller density. Megatas is suitable for all classes of livestock.
Sowing rate:
5-10 kg/ha alone
1-5 kg/ha with clovers
- 600mm+
Savvy
Savvy is a vigorous, very high yielding cocksfoot providing high production levels in all seasons, maintaining summer quality and palatability due to its low aftermath heading and soft leaves. Unlike most cocksfoot varieties, Savvy has exceptional disease resistance and has been bred to tolerate hard grazing in cattle and sheep systems, ensuring excellent recovery and persistence in a range of conditions.
Key features:
High autumn and winter production
High quality and very leafy with summer moisture
Bred for soft fine leaves
Disease tolerant
Increased palatability
Suited to well drained sandy loam soils
Tolerates acidic soils where perennial ryegrass struggles to persist
Sowing rate:
8-10 kg/ha pure stand
2-5 kg/ha with clovers and herbs
Endophyte:
Nil
Persistence:
5-10 years
Recommended rainfall:
600 mm+
Best grazing practice:
Rotational
- 600mm+
Tall Fescue Tall Fescue
Phalaris Phalaris
Australian
A semi-winter dormant variety with a prostrate growth habit, Australian phalaris demonstrates strong persistence under heavy grazing and is suited to high rainfall, cool tableland regions. It offers low winter production and is suitable for set stocking systems and areas with low soil fertility. Australian has been superseded by Australian II.
- 400mm+
Confederate
Confederate is a new winter active phalaris bred to replace Maru. It is better suited to 500mm+ rainfall and heavier soil types, with a similar growth habit to Sirosa and Holdfast it requires rotational grazing. Confederate was selected for strong winter activity combined with low alkaloid production and improved late season growth.
Sowing rate:
4-6 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha in a mix
- 400mm+
Holdfast
Winter active variety with low to moderate summer dormancy, good persistence under drought. Semi erect growth habit, medium seedling vigour and winter production, high total production.
Sowing rate:
4-6 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha with clovers
- 500mm+
Sirosa
Sirosa is suited to 500 mm+ rainfall. Semi erect growth habit with medium summer dormancy and good drought tolerance. Excellent seedling vigour, high winter production.
4-6 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha with clovers
- 500mm+
Brome Brome
Exceltas
Exceltas Coloured Brome is a clover friendly grass with good late spring and early summer growth. It demonstrates excellent palatability even when seedling and is best suited to a high input rotational grazing system, with particular advantages in sheep grazing. It endures as a quality feed option with no negative effects to animals as it contains no endophytes.
Sowing rate:
25 kg/ha alone
20 kg/ha with clovers
- 600mm+
Gala
Gala is a winter active grass exhibiting high yield and tiller density, and is specifically bred for sheep grazing. It offers great palatability with no risk of ryegrass staggers. Gala also ensures good persistence and tolerance under hard grazing, with rapid recovery and the ability to tolerate set stocking. As a dryland species it is tolerant of the many pests and diseases in summer dry environments.
Sowing rate:
25 kg/ha alone
20 kg/ha with clovers
- 600mm+