QLD MAXImiser™ Heavy Soil Mix
Enterprise Type
Sowing Rate
8-15 kg/haRainfall / Irrigation
600mm+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.
| Variety | Contents |
| Katambora Rhodes | 31% |
| Floren Bluegrass | 15% |
| Bambatsi Grass | 15% |
| Aztec Siratro | 8% |
| Cheetah Medic | 8% |
| Haifa White Clover | 8% |
| UQL 1 Lucerne | 15% |
Ingredients Ingredients Show All
This mix contains the following products
Creeping Bluegrass (Bothriochloa)
Tufted perennial with prostate creeping stems
Provides quality forage
Very competitive once established
Flowers late autumn
Soil type: Clay loam to sandy loam
Sowing rate:
Envirogro® 3-8kg/ha
SowEasy Kickstart® 3-8kg/ha
- 600mm+
Glycine
Likes well drained neutral fertile soils
Moderately drought tolerant and tolerates short periods of flooding
Slow to establish
High stock palatability
Soil type: Deep friable clays
Sowing rate:
Envirogro® 1-4kg/ha
SowEasy KickStart® 1-4kg/ha
- 800mm+
Angleton (Dichanthium aristatum)
Tufted, vigorous perennial
Suited to alkaline clay cracking soils
Tolerant to drought, flood and salt.
Susceptible to frosts
Soil type: Heavy
Sowing rate: SowEasy KickStart® 3-8kg/ha
- 650mm+
Bambatsi Panic
Bambatsi panic
(Panicum coloratum var makarikariense)
Short rhizomatous, tufted perennial
Can tolerate seasonally flooded areas with low to moderate fertility
Moderate salt tolerance
Frost tolerant
Very palatable if grazed well
Can cause health issue in lambs and horses
Soil type: Medium to heavy
Sowing rate: SowEasy KickStart® 2-4kg/ha
- 450mm+
Desmanthus
A woody stemmed, fern-like perennial
Low bloat risk
Drought and cold tolerant
Rapid growth rates
Soil type: Medium to heavy clay
Sowing rate:
SowEasy KickStart® 1-4kg/ha
Envirogro® 4-12kg/ha
- 600mm+
Cheetah
Cheetah is an early-mid maturing hard seeded barrel medic that is highly vigorous and also drought tolerant. Fast growing with multiple aphid resistances, Cheetah provides a high yield in low to medium rainfall areas, making it perfect for summer feed.
One of the main advantages in using Cheetah is it exhibits the pod holding (ph) trait, which stops the maturing pod and leaves from dropping off the plant. This means that seeds are larger and more fully formed, the plants more productive and vigorous, and out-of-season pasture quantity, quality and availability is maintained for year-round stock production.
Sowing rate:
5-10 kg/ha alone
Titan 5
Semi-winter dormant Titan 5 is an exciting new lucerne variety combining Medicago sativa and Medicago falcata genetics. The introduction of new genetics provides persistence, additional drought tolerance and water use efficiency over traditional Medicago sativa varieties of similar dormancy. It is bred in Australia to suit the Australian climate.
Trials across Australia have shown Titan 5 to have excellent adaptation to a wide range of climatic conditions, as a very productive dormancy 5 variety. Titan 5 is a very persistent lucerne in its category, due to its Medicago falcata material possessing winter hardy and drought tolerant traits. Titan 5 is also a high yielding lucerne that possesses early growth, a trait not common in dormancy 5 categories.
Key Benefits & Features:
Unique Medicago falcata material – shown to be more winter hardy and drought tolerant
Semi-winter dormant - dormancy 5
Excellent disease package
Density with fine stems
Excellent grazing tolerance
High yield potential with ability to produce quality hay
Sowing rates:
Rainfall (mm)
Sowing Rate (kg/ha)
Below 400
5-10
400-600
10-15
600-750
15-20
750-900+
20-25
Irrigation
25+
- 400mm+
- 5-6
Rhodes
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
- 600mm+
Haifa
A large-leafed perennial legume providing good levels of autumn and winter forage production, Haifa demonstrates excellent seedling vigour with an erect growth habit and strong heat tolerance. Haifa is well adapted to lower rainfall areas and low fertility soils, although has been superseded by Winter White II white clover.
Sowing rate:
3-5 kg/ha alone
1-3 kg/ha in a mix
- 800mm+
- Large