Flecha
Tall Fescue
Flecha is a tall Mediterranean fescue with excellent persistence and reliable drought tolerance. It demonstrates high autumn, winter and spring growth, ideally suited to dry regions with consistently hot summers where persistent pastures are required. It contains nil endophyte and is an excellent option for winter and late-spring feed.
Sowing rate:
10-20 kg/ha with clovers
Flecha tall fescue sown at Steam Plains Station, 35km north of Conaga NSW. It had just received 125mm of rain and the paddock is irrigated from February to December. This photo is of two weeks regrowth after 4000 ewes grazed the 100ha for 4 weeks.
- Name: Mark Stephen Pasture Seeds
- Location: Steam Plains, Conargo, NSW, Conargo
An alternative approach to planting mixed fescue and lucerne pastures is providing benefits for farmers who have noticed a more effective and reliable establishment of their pastures.In April 2014, Brad oversaw the sowing of a paddock of Flecha Mediterranean tall fescue and Titan 7 lucerne with a Conner Shea 8000 direct drill. The Flecha was sown through one seed box and the Titan 7 sown through the other.Traditionally these fescue/lucerne pastures would be sown as a mix in the same sowing row and therefore competing against each other for nutrients and water.
- Name: Brad Payne
- Location: Scone, NSW
Dustin sowed a mixed pasture which contained Flecha tall fescue, Arrowtas arrowleaf clover,Viper Balansa clover, Riverina and Dalkeith subclovers, lucerne and Tonic plantain. There was "green feed all year round. Plantain and lucerne in summer and clovers and Flecha tall fescue in winter". I "always have somewhere to finish lambs. I don't need to go buy grain to finish them."
- Name: Dustin Kemp
- Location: Warroo, NSW