Rhodes
Varieties available: Callide, Katambora, Pioneer, Nemkat, Finecut, Golfcut & Topcut
Sowing Rate
3-12 kg/ha SowEasy KickStartRainfall / Irrigation
600mm+- Widely adapted depending on variety
- Poor persistence on low fertility soils
- Moderate tolerance of salinity and acidity
- Easily established
Soil type: Well structured loams, volcanic clays
Sowing rate:
Envirogro® 2-12 kg/ha
SowEasy Kickstart® 3-12 kg/ha
Seed Mixes Seed Mixes Show All
This product is available in the following mixes:
NSW MAXImiser™ Slopes Security Mix
This is a popular mix with many producers who have tried tropicals. It provides the greatest security with a range of species that produce fee year in-year out.
QLD MAXImiser Light Soil Mix
This is a very productive mixture of high quality grasses and legumes that are suitable to lighter textured free draining soils to sandy loams. The mix provides long season productivity from spring to autumn. The grasses typically have good stoloniferous growth habits and have strong growth in spring. The mix also contains a diverse range of legumes.
Sowing rate: 12.5 kg/ha
Ingredients
Katambora Rhodes Grass
Bisset Creeping Bluegrass
Premier Digit
Gatton Panic
Aztec Siratro
Cooper Glycine
Wynn Cassia
Cheetah Medic
Haifa White Clover
NSW MAXImiser® Light Soil Mix
NSW MAXImiser® Light Soil Mix provides palatability, persistence, and ground cover to keep weeds at
bay. Gone are the days of planting tropicals on your sandy soil and struggling
with palatability.
Contents:
Premier digit
Sabi grass
Katambora rhodes grass
Sowing rate:
4-8 kg/ha
QLD MAXImiser™ Heavy Soil Mix
This mix is able to handle heavy clay soils with good water holding capacity. It contains highly digestible and very productive grasses and legumes. The legumes have been selected to take advantage of seasonal rainfalls. This mix will have a good spring growth response after winter frosts and has long season productivity from spring into autumn.
NSW MAXImiser® Slopes Security Mix
This is a popular mix with many producers who have tried tropicals. It provides the greatest security with a range of species that produce feed year in-year-out.
QLD MAXImiser® Heavy Soil Mix
This mix is able to handle heavy clay soils with good water holding capacity. It contains highly digestible and very productive grasses and legumes. The legumes have been selected to take advantage of seasonal rainfalls. This mix
will have a good spring growth response after winter frosts and has long season productivity from spring into autumn.
QLD MAXImiser™ Coastal Soil Mix
The Coastal mix contains high quality grasses and legumes that are suited to high rainfall regions. It provides very good ground cover from the stoloniferous and densely tufted species included. This mix tolerates acid and free draining sandier soils. It is highly productive under intensive management and tolerates heavy grazing.
Contents:
Callide rhodes grass,
Bisset bluegrass,
Signal grass,
Cooper glycine,
V8 stylo,
Cadillo centro,
Haifa white clover
QLD MAXImiser® Coastal Soil Mix
The Coastal mix contains high quality grasses and legumes that are suited to high rainfall regions. It provides very good ground cover from the stoloniferous and densely tufted species included. This mix tolerates acid and free draining sandier soils. It is highly productive under intensive management and tolerates heavy grazing.
Queensland Summer Horse Mix
This unique blend of tropical and temperate species combines high quality feed with persistence. The tropical grasses provide summer bulk and have been carefully selected for quality, while the temperate grasses provide quality winter feed. The addition of temperate and tropical legumes allows for year round quality and nitrogen production. This mix is ideal where long term persistence is
required.
Soil type
Wide range
Annual rainfall
550 mm+
Sowing rate
20-30 kg/ha
Fertility
Medium-high
Persistence*
4 years+
Sowing time
Autumn
Establishment
Fast
*Persistence will be influenced by a number of facts and is not guaranteed
Please note: All equine pastures MUST be rested throughout the year and should never be overgrazed during the summer period. Please refer to our Equine Mix brochure for more management tips.
QLD MAXImiser® Light Soil Mix
This is a very productive mixture of high quality grasses and legumes that are suited to lighter textured free draining soils to sandy loams. The mix provides long season productivity from spring to autumn. The grasses typically have
good stoloniferous growth habits and have strong growth in spring. The mix also contains a diverse range of legumes.
NSW MAXImiser® Light Soil Mix
This mix is ideal for producers looking for production, palatability and
persistence on light soils, as well as having the ability to compete strongly with
weeds.
Contents:
Premier digit
Sabi grass
Katambora