CHICO CHICORY - OUR TOP CHICORY SELECTION
Chico Chicory
Rocket fuel for livestock performance
OUR NUMBER ONE CHOICE FOR CHICORY
A high yielding, very high quality and leafy chicory showing fast establishment, rapid re-growth, strong insect resistance and good drought tolerance. Chico is noted for its strong summer, autumn growth providing high quality summer forage and making it ideal as a specialist summer crop for high livestock performance systems.
Add Chico to Top Crop Blends & Multi Specie Blends for flexible, reliable summer feed.
Sowing rate: 8-10kg/ha (standalone), 2-4kg/ha in a mix
Top Crop Chicory
A speedy annual chicory for enhanced summer grazing
With summer grazing in mind, Top Crop Chicory is a great option for farmers looking to optimise their summer feed portfolio. A highly palatable chicory, Top Crop Chicory can make a valuable addition to a summer, early Autumn grazing rotation.
Puna II Chicory
Produces highly nutritious feed from spring to later autumn
A true perennial, Grasslands Puna II delivers premium quality feed and high dry matter production from spring to late Autumn. The thick, deep taproot of Puna II Chicory giving very good drought tolerance once established.
Commander Chicory
Solid performer
Commander is a winter active forage chicory that provides excellent year round growth. It has a low crown giving good grazing tolerance plus a leafy and erect growth habit making grazing easier for livestock. Commander establishes quickly and benefits from good disease resistance.
GRAZING MANAGEMENT
Chicory is cool season dormant, but with high growth rates over spring, summer and autumn. Chicory should be rotationally grazed for best performance and persistence. Hard grazing, particularly after damage to the crown in wet conditions, may affect production and persistence.
SOWING & ESTABLISHMENT
Chicory should be sown no deeper than 10 mm. Seed may be broadcast or direct drilled under favourable conditions. Soil temperatures of 12 degrees celsius for spring sowings are recommended, however, early autumn sowing is possible, as long as the chicory has established before going dormant in the cool season.
CHICORY BLENDS
CHICORY IN TOP CROP BLENDS
Chico Chicory combines well with other spring forage varieties including plantain, clover and forage rape in our Top Crop Blends. Chicory also combines well with grasses and clover
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. Chicory produces leafy top growth and has a thick, deep taproot—which can go down up to 1.5metres—giving it excellent drought tolerance and mineral extraction.
Chicory has good disease resistance, insect tolerance, along with tolerance to acidity and has been successfully grown in soils with low pH soils. It is important to identify what the chicory is required to supply in a pasture system before purchasing any varieties. Understanding whether a perennial type or a bi-annual type is needed must be the initial decision which should make the variety selection a little simpler.
KEY BENEFITS OF CHICORY
- Highly palatable forage
- Excellent feed source for high livestock growth rates
- Provides high quality feed through summer using summer rain, irrigation or stored soil water
- Able to produce high quality forage on acid soils
- Recovers quickly after grazing
- Does not cause bloat
- Can be used for silage production as part of a pasture mix.
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