SPS Alpaca Mix
Sowing Rate
25kg/haRainfall / Irrigation
500mm+SPS pasture mix for alpacas, which provides high quality year round production.
Contents:
Yarck II Cocksfoot
Exceltas Brome
Coolamon Sub Clover KS
Nomad White Clover KS
Choice Chicory KS
Ecotain® Plantain KS
Sowing rate:
25kg/ha
Rainfall:
500+ mm
Soils:
Light / Medium Fert
Establishment:
​Slow
Persistence:
5+ years
Ingredients Ingredients Show All
This mix contains the following products
Yarck II
Yarck II is an Australian bred cocksfoot with good seedling vigour, improved establishment and strong winter growth. Yarck II has also demonstrated excellent summer activity with good response to summer rainfall. Similar to Porto Currie, Yarck II also displays strong all-round persistence.
Sowing rate:
5-10 kg/ha alone
1-5 kg/ha in a mix
- 400mm+
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+
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+
Nomad
A small to medium leaved white clover, Nomad was selected for increased persistence and drought tolerance, being especially suited to dry environments. It performs excellently under dryland sheep grazing and grows mostly in spring, summer and autumn. Nomad has high nutritive value and is relatively tolerant of acidic soils, with great stolon density allowing it to persist in areas prone to low summer soil moisture levels.
Sowing rate:
3-5 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha in a mix
- 600mm+
- Small
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+
Ecotain®
Ecotain® - The Plant
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 (refer page 53, SPS Signature Range - Autumn Ecotain® Blends).
Sowing rates for mixes:
3-5kg/ha in perennial pasture mix
6-8kg/ha when mixed with clover
4kg/ha in a lucerne stand
6-8kg/ha when mixed with 2kg/ha brassica
- 600mm+