Forage Crops

Grow feed when pasture growth falls away

Forage crops provide a valuable source of home-grown feed when pasture quality or quantity is limited. From fast summer grazing to high-yielding winter crops, choosing the right forage crop comes down to when you need the feed, how quickly you need it and how you intend to use it.

Why grow a forage crop?

Fill seasonal feed gaps
Produce high quantities of dry matter
Grow high-quality feed where it will be grazed
Reduce reliance on purchased feed
Provide grazing, silage or finishing options
Create a break crop before pasture renovation
Help clean up problem paddocks before returning to perennial pasture

FORAGE SEED BLENDS

Purpose-built forage blends combining selected brassicas, herbs and warm-season species to provide flexible summer grazing.

Top Crop Forage Blends

High performance range of blend of brassica, leafy turnip, chicory and red clover, millet & more.

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Multi Species Blend

Diverse multi species blends with a range of species to boost paddock performance and health.

FAST SUMMER FEED

Fast-establishing forage options when you need quality grazing quickly through spring, summer or early autumn.

Bulb single graze turnips

Tankard type single graze high yielding turnips, ranging from fast feed early to long season early winter feed.

Leafy multi graze turnips

Leafy turnips are one of the quickest forage options for fast, leafy feed with multiple grazing potential. Low ripening period and up to 3-4 grazings.

HIGH QUALITY GRAZING

High-quality, leafy forage options for livestock performance, with the ability to provide multiple grazings where moisture allows.

Chicory

Chicory is a deep-rooted broad-leafed perennial herb, which has proven to be an excellent source of energy from late spring to late autumn.

Plantain

Plantain, often complimenting seed mixes offer reliable summer grazing, has a fibrous, coarse root system that is important part of lamb and beef finishing.

Forage brassicas

High performing forage brassicas designed for versatile livestock feed that can feed livestock during times of low pasture.

Cleancrop Brassicas

A crop and weed management solution that combines the power of a broad spectrum herbicide, and seed cultivars bred to be resistant to the sulfonyurea herbicide Telar.

LATE AUTUMN / WINTER GRAZING

Longer-maturing forage crops grown through summer and autumn to provide valuable feed when pasture growth slows.

Kale

Kale is a late autumn/winter feed that delivers a single graze option in May to August. Kale has a deep root system and therefore good drought tolerance once established and can be grazed at any time.

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.

Raphno brassica

A hybrid between Kale & Radish, Raphanobrassica is a high yielding offering flexible grazing as early as 56 days after sowing, but can also be deferred up to 100 days after sowing.

SPECIALIST FEED

Higher-input forage options suited to specific feed requirements, farming systems or longer-term production.

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.