Silage, Green Manure, Cover Crop Mixes
SPS Benatas 'N' Oat Blend
This blend of Benatas vetch and Carrick oats provides a bulk amount of early feed for winter grazing or high quality silage or hay production. Both Benatas and Carrick are very cold hardy and have a moderate tolerance to wet soils. The Benatas can be particularly useful in improving soil fertility with high nitrogen fixation.
Contents:
Carrick Oats
Benatas Vetch
Sowing rate:
60-80kg/ha
Rainfall:
600+
Soils:
Clay – Loam/ Med Fert
Establishment:
Grazing/ cut 12-14 weeks
- 600mm+
SPS Bio Blend
Bio blend is a high yielding, excellent quality winter/spring cover crop. The wide range of species in this blend develops diverse root systems providing the soil with organic matter helping to improve soil structure.
Contents:
Winfred Forage Brassica KS
Choice Chicory KS
Common Ryecorn
Benatas Vetch
USA Red Clover SE/KS
Sowing Rates:
50 -75kg/ha
Rainfall:
500+
Soils:
Wide Range / Med Fert
Establishment:
First grazing 14 weeks
Sowing rate:
50-75 kg/ha
- 500mm+
SPS Green Manure Blend
Ideal for producing large quanities of dry matter, with the purpose of working it back into the soil producing high quanities of organic matter improving soil structure and health.
Contents:
Carrick Oats
Common Ryecorn
Benatas Vetch
Field Peas
Sowing rate:
100-150kg/ha
Rainfall:
550+
Soils:
Wide Range/ Med-High Fert
Establishment:
Grazing/cut 10-14 weeks
- 550mm+
SPS Silage Mix
Produces large quantities of quality silage
Suited to high rainfall areas
Ideal green manure crop improving soil structure
Contents:
Carrick Oats
Field Peas
Sowing rate:
150-200kg/ha
Rainfall:
700+
Soils:
Clay – Loam/ Med – High Fert
Establishment:
Grazing/cut 12-14 weeks
SPS Summer Cover Crop Blend
A high yielding, excellent quality summer cover crop, ideal for utilising summer moisture whilst growing a multi species forage suitable for grazing with all classes of livestock.
The wide range of species in this blend develops diverse root systems providing the soil with organic matter helping to improve soil structure.
Other benefits include; soil amelioration, reduced summer weeds, protecting against potential top soil erosion, offering a diverse diet for livestock. Assuming adequate moisture availablity, the SPS summer cover crop blend activly grows through summer months. The diversity of forages offers animals a variety of plants in their diet giving benefits of grass, legume and brassica species.
Contents:
Speedan Sorghum
Greenfeed Maize
Shirohie Millet
USA Red Clover SEKS
Arrowleaf Clover SEKS
Pillar Rape
Rival Turnip
Sowing Rates:
25-50kg/ha
Rainfall:
600+
Soils:
Wide Range / Medium Fert
Establishment:
Grazing 10-14wks- sorghum 60cm+
- 600mm+