Cocksfoot is a tough, long-term grass built for challenging pastures. It tolerates acid or sandy soils, drought and grazing pressure and fills feed gaps in summer and autumn when other grasses fade. New generation cocksfoots are an ideal base to mixed perennial pastures for medium rainfall farms.
Key benefits of Cocksfoot include:
- Long-term persistence under dry, low-fertility, or acidic soil.
- Reliable summer and autumn growth when ryegrass slows
- Handles drought, grazing, and variable fertility with ease
- Compatible with ryegrass and clovers in mixed pastures
- Disease-resistant and safe for livestock (no staggers risk)
- Lower digestibility than ryegrass — best used as part of a blend
Selecting a cocksfoot
| Summer active types Also known as Continental |
Winter Active, Summer Dormant Also known as Mediterranean |
|---|---|
| Kainui Vision Aurus Savvy Safin |
Summadorm Uplands |
| Broad leaves, robust, 600-800 mm+, heavier soil, Dairy systems, mixed grazing, high stock-density pastures | Finer leaves, more upright, 400-550 mm, drier soil, Supplement to ryegrass pastures, sheep enterprises |
SUMMER ACTIVE COCKSFOOTS
Kainui Cocksfoot
Benchmark of soft leaf genetics, a specialist summer pasture component
Kainui sets the benchmark for feed quality among cocksfoots. Its soft, highly palatable leaf and dense, upright habit make it a favourite for dairy and beef systems chasing quality and persistence.
Aurus Cocksfoot
Strong winter growth, upright habit
Aurus is a upright cocksfoot bred for high yield, palatability, and broad adaptation. It combines the strong winter growth of temperate types with the toughness to handle summer stress.
Vision Cocksfoot
Benchmark allrounder, reliable performer and growth.
Vision brings reliability and balance — a fine-leaved Continental type combining quality, yield, and persistence. It offers steady winter growth and continues producing through summer where ryegrass fades.
Safin Cocksfoot
Safin combines speed and strength — a fast-establishing, fine-leaved variety that bridges the gap between quality and toughness.
Savvy Cocksfoot
Savvy is built for dryland durability. A Mediterranean type with strong autumn and winter activity, Savvy thrives in tough, summer-dry environments where persistence matters most.
WINTER ACTIVE, SUMMER DORMANT COCKSFOOTS
Summadorm Cocksfoot
Summadorm is the survival specialist — a true summer-dormant variety that shuts down through dry periods to protect its crown and recharges rapidly with autumn rain.
Uplands Cocksfoot
Uplands is the workhorse for challenging country — a Mediterranean cocksfoot bred for persistence on low-fertility, acid or sandy soils. Uplands delivers dependable dry-season performance
