As part of your pasture management program, forage crops can grow valuable feed at key times when traditional pastures are of low quality or low quantity. Forage crops available from Notman Pasture Seeds include Top Crop Forage Blends, Chicory, Plantain, Forage Brassicas, Turnips, Kale, Fodder Beet, Pallaton Raphnobrassica, Millet and Sorghum.
- Cost effective source of dry matter compared to ‘bought in feed’
- Produce large quantities of feed for a relatively low cost of production
- Be grazed where they are grown, eliminating additional costs associated with hay, silage and grain
- Break the perennial weed cycle using non-selective herbicides leading to more productive pastures
TOP CROP SUMMER FORAGE BLENDS
Brassica & Herbs
Top Crop Brassica & Herbs contains a unique blend of
- Pillar Forage Rape
- Titan Forage Rape
- Pasja II Leafy Turnip
- Chico Chicory &
- Red Clover
Brassica, Herb & Millet
Top Crop Brassica, Herbs & Millet contains a unique blend of
- Chico Chicory
- Pillar Forage Rape
- Titan Forage Rape
- Forage Millet
Millet & Rape
Top Crop Millet & Rape contains a unique blend of
- Pillar Forage Rape
- Titan Forage Rape &
- Forage Millet
Millet & Brassica
Top Crop Millet & Brassica contains a unique blend of
- Forage Millet
- Pillar Forage Rape
- Titan Forage Rape &
- Pasja II Leafy Turnip
HERBS
CHICORY
Chicory is a deep-rooted broad-leafed perennial herb, which has proven to be an excellent source of high quality & yielding feed from late spring to late autumn.
PLANTAIN
Plantain is a moderate drought tolerant herb with a fibrous, coarse root system that is best suited to dairy farm situations where the amount and quality of summer feed limits milk production.
BRASSICA
TURNIPS (TANKARD TYPE)
Tankard type have exceptionally high yield potential from a single graze, good leaf to bulb ratio, and range from early maturing turnips ideal for summer feed to late maturing turnips which provide autumn, early winter feed. Later maturing turnips can be ultilised in areas where growing feed in winter months is difficult.
TURNIP (LEAFY TURNIPS)
Leafy turnips are generally a multi-graze option with a very low ripening period. Leafy turnips offer quick spring, summer and autumn feed with the potential of providing up to 3-4 grazings. They are more prone to stress during summer than forage rapes as they have a less prominent tap root.
FORAGE RAPE
Forage rapes provide leafy, high quality feed which require a longer maturity time than hybrid leafy turnips.Forage rapes generally grow more dry matter from each grazing than leafy turnips and offer multiple grazing opportunities if moisture is available.
KALE
Kale is a late autumn/winter feed that delivers a single graze option in May to August. Generally the taller the kale, the higher the dry matter yield, but leaf-to-stem ratio does fall with taller kales. Kale has a deep root system and therefore good drought tolerance once established and can be grazed at any time.
FODDER BEET
Fodder Beet is a demanding crop but if managed properly can be extremely high yielding. Attention to detail in preparation prior to, during and following sowing is critical to ensure good results.
RAPHNO BRASSICA
Raphanobrassica, a hybrid between Brassica oleracea (kale) and Raphanus sativus (radish). It is high yielding offering flexible grazing as early as 56 days after sowing, but can also be deferred up to 100 days after sowing.
CLEANCROP BRASSICA SYSTEM
A crop and weed management solution all in one. Cleancrop combines the power of a broad spectrum herbicide, and 4 new brassica seed cultivars bred to be resistant to the sulfonyurea herbicide Telar.
- Cleancrop
SORGHUM & MILLET
SORGHUM
Forage sorghum hybrids deliver large quantities of quality feed for grazing, hay or silage. Up to three times the water use efficiency of traditional perennial pastures over summer and no compromise or loss of feed value.
MILLET
Millet, a low cost option for summer feed, is a safe forage for your animals—containing no prussic acid (HCN). Millets can be sown earlier and will grow into late summer/early autumn. Millet is great for your pasture renovation program.
- Shirohie Millet
- Japanese Millet
- Pearl Millet
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Spring & Summer presents an opportunity to plant a valuable forage crop