As we move into late autumn and early winter, a range of winter grasses and broadleafed weeds begin to germinate in our pastures.
Light green in colour with tufted growth habit and seeding from late winter throughout spring and early summer, Poa Annual matures quickly and seeds profusely making them an agressive weed difficult to control. Grazing or mowing is ultimately ineffective in their control as they begin to choke up your pastures.
Preventing winter grass establishment is a key component in maximising the performance or your pastures. As you can see by the images below:
WINTER GRASSES TRIAL
Using Scanner 500 herbicide, Notman Pasture Seeds trialed its effectiveness on winter grasses last season here at Larnder. As you can see there was a greater ryegrass plant population in the plots with Scanner 500 used (left below) compared to the plots (right below) which were impacted by Poa Annual.
