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Generator Dairy Pasture Seed Mixes:

Specialty Seed offer a specialist range of Dairy Farm Seed Mixes:

Please feel free to browse through these and when you've found the one that most suits your needs you can contact us. Also remember that we also custom blend to your individual requirements.

We offer:


Generator Dairy Elite Mix
(Available in either AR1 /Low Endophyte ryegrass)
The Mix:

Cultivar Description

Use for:

Expo Perennial Ryegrass

Late flowering date. + 21 days
High dry matter yield potential
Premium dairy pasture mix using late flowering ryegrass for good year round seasonal dry matter production. With a large and medium leaf clover both with good stolon density features. Use as a high producing general purpose dairy pasture.
Kopu II White Clover (Superstrike) Large leaf, good stolon density
Tribute White Clover (Superstrike) Medium/large leaf, good stolon density clover
Recommended sowing @ 24 kgs per hectare

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Generator 'Black Beetle Diploid' (BBD) Dairy Mix
The Mix:

Cultivar Description

Use for:

Either: Expo AR37 / Trojan NEA2 diploid perennial ryegrass

AR 37 Expo (late flowering) and Trojan with NEA2 are Mid to Late flowering diploid perennial ryegrass with a novel endophyte for extra stock performance and persistence through resistance to adult Black Beetle. A good year round seasonal dry matter production. Using premium perennial ryegrasses and large leaf and medium leaf clovers with good stolon density features. Use as an excellent general purpose dairy pasture in regions where black beetle are a problem.
Kopu II White Clover (Superstrike) Large leaf, good stolon density
Tribute White Clover (Superstrike) Medium/large leaf, good stolon density clover
Recommended sowing @ 24 kgs per hectare

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Generator 'Black Beetle Tetraploid' (BBT) Dairy Mix
The Mix:

Cultivar Description

Use for:

Either:Base AR37 Tetraploid Perennial ryegrass

Base is a late flowering tetraploid perennial ryegrasses with AR37 endophyte for extra stock performance and persistence in areas with high insect pressure particularly Black Beetle and Argentine Stem Weevil. Late flowering tetraploid ryegrass with excellent year round seasonal dry matter production. Along with all the other benefits that tetraploid ryegrass offers. Large leaf and medium leaf clovers with good stolon density features. Use as an excellent general purpose dairy pasture in regions where black beetle are a problem.
Kopu II White Clover (Superstrike) Large leaf, good stolon density
Tribute White Clover (Superstrike) Medium/large leaf, good stolon density clover
Recommended sowing @ 24 kgs per hectare

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Generator 'Value' Dairy Pasture Mix
The Mix:

Cultivar Description

Use for:

Blitz High Performance Tetraploid Ryegrass

Late Flowering / Medium Tillared / Clover friendly This is a mix of a diploid and tetraploid perennial ryegrasses, Italian ryegrass, Huia clover and Timothy. And has been designed to achieve a high producing pasture but at a very economic price per hectare. It can be established over a wide range of soil types, fertility situations and is suitable in all dairy farming situations and can be established using all known methods of establishment. This mix can also be used in Dairying situations.

Rich Ryegrass

Early flowering, persistent, diploid perennial ryegrass with outstanding winter and early spring growth.
Kano Italian Ryegrass Quick establishing ryegrass
Huia White Clover Medium leaf size type with a time proven performance record.
Timothy Added to improve summer performance and palatability.
Recommended sowing @ 30 kgs per hectare
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Generator Extras for the Sheep, Beef, and Deer Pasture Seed Mixes
The Seed: Seed Description: Recommended use rate:
Cocksfoot Cocksfoot is a very persistent perennial grass that tolerates summer dry conditions, moderate soil fertility, insect attack and continual set stocking.
Recommended cultivars: Vision, Ella, Greenly, Tekapo, Wana or Tekapo
2 to 4 kgs per hectare
Chicory Chicory has a deep, tap like, rooting system, and provides excellent stock health attributes and summer performance.
Recommended cultivars: Punter, Choice, Chico, Grouse, Puna 2
1 to 2 kgs per hectare
Plantain A fibrous broadleaf mineral rich pasture herb.
Recommended cultivars: Boston, Tonic, Endurance
500 grams to 1 kg per hectare
Red Clover A tap rooted clover with very high feed value, with excellent summer production.
Recommended cultivars: Rossi, Tuscan, Sensation, Colenso or Hamua
2 to 5 kgs per hectare
Timothy Very palatable to all stock types care must be taken to avoid over grazing. Has very high herbage quality features.
Recommended cultivars: NZ Timothy, Kahu, Viking, Dolina, Summergraze
2 to 3 kgs per hectare
Phalaris Phalaris grows with vigour during the Autumn, Winter and Spring but is semi - dormant during the Summer.
Recommended cultivars: Maru
1 to 2 kgs per hectare
Persian Clover Persian Clover is a highly productive, palatible and nutritious annual clover.
Recommended cultivars: Enrich
3 to 6 kgs per hectare





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