AusWest MAXImiser ® Alpaca Mix
Sowing Rate
20 ha/kgRainfall / Irrigation
600mm+This mix is suited to Alpaca and other Camelids. It contains a safe and durable pasture combining hardy grasses, herbs and legumes to provide close to year round feed for your Alpaca.
Ingredients Ingredients Show All
This mix contains the following products
Ecotain®
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.
* NZ data: Woods, 2017 used with permission
Sowing Rates:
10-14kg/ha as a pure stand
5 kg/ha in a perennial pasture mix
4-6 kg/ha with chicory and clover as a specialist crop
4 kg/ha in a lucerne stand
8 kg/ha with 2 kg/ha of forage brassica
- 600mm+
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
- 600mm+
Demeter
Demeter is a deep-rooted fescue with an erect growth habit, strong spring and summer activity and low winter production. It will provide excellent persistence and performance in growing regions that are spring and summer rainfall dominant. Demeter is adaptable to a wide range of soil types, with tolerance of low fertile, poorly drained areas and moderate salinity.
Tall fescue establishes more slowly than many other cool season grasses, and good management in early spring while Demeter is in its vegetative stage will ensure excellent regrowth. Demeter's leaf is not as palatable as newer tall fescues.
Sowing rate:
20-25 kg/ha alone
15-25 kg/ha with clovers
- 600mm+
Uplands
Uplands is a fine leaved Mediterranean cocksfoot with high tiller density and a very high level of drought and cold tolerance. It is a winter active and partially summer dormant variety that persists well under grazing, producing a large bulk of high protein, high energy forage that is highly palatable.
Best adapted for sowing in low rainfall temperate areas, Uplands grows rapidly in autumn to late spring and is very tolerant of aluminium and acid soils.
Sowing rate:
4-5 kg/ha alone
2-4 kg/ha with early maturing sub clovers
- 350mm+
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+
Coolamon
A black seeded sub clover variety with high seed production and hard seed levels, Coolamon offers improved seedling regeneration with dense swards for higher herbage development. This high yielding species has good resistance to clover scorch and improved winter and spring production. Ideally Coolamon is suited for sowing with Riverina in hay or grazing pasture mixes.
Sowing rate:
10-20 kg/ha alone
6-10 kg/ha in a mix
- 500mm+
Tribute
A medium-large leaved white clover, Tribute demonstrates strong persistence, superior out-of-season production and very high drymatter production. With tolerance to clover root weevil and excellent persistence under hard grazing, Tribute is adaptable to a wide range of farm types, providing very high production levels year-round.
Sowing rate:
3-5 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha in a mix
- 700mm+
- Medium