NEW Graze n' Hay Blends
Specialty Seed's new Graze n' Hay blends are used extensively in Australia but are a new concept for New Zealand farms.
This coming autumn we will be introducing two new blends:
Typically
Kano italian or
Devour annual ryegrasses are autumn sown as single sward stands to fill winter feed deficits, normally after your maize crop or summer brassica program.
Our two Graze & Hay pasture seed mixes enhance these ryegrasses with the addition of our
Enrich Persian clover.
Enrich Persian clover is a highly nutritious legume annual clover with a high yield potential. Enrich is a legume and therefore introduces the benefits normally associated with legumes to your pasture.
These benefits include more protein, better feed quality balance and an increase in the palatability of these already palatable ryegrasses.
Graze n' Hay:
Graze n' Hay is a blend of Devour tetraploid annual ryegrass and Enrich persian clover. Sown in the autumn Graze n' Hay will provide you 9 months of quick growing, winter graze green feed and / or spring silage.
Typically used after maize or summer brassica program.
Recommended Sowing Rate: Sown at 20 kgs per hectare.
Graze n' Hay Premium:
Graze n' Hay Premium is a blend of Kano diploid italian and Enrich persian clover. Recommend to be autumn sown Graze n' Hay Premium can provide between 12 to 15 months of high quality feed.
Typically used to top up run out pastures, after you maize crop or summer brassica program.
Recommended Sowing Rate:Sown at 20 kgs per hectare.
Download Link: Click here to download our
Graze n' Hay brochure.
Website Link: Click here to go to our
Graze n' Hay Seed Mixes website page.
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click here to contact Specialty Seeds today.
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Devour Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass.
Annual ryegrass establishes extremely rapidly and is capable of producing high levels of forage in a very short period of time. Devour Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass is no exception to this rule.
Devour Annual Ryegrass is a short term annual ryegrass ideal for sowing between January and June. Devour is used in areas where you require a bulk of quick, high quality and palatable feed. Devour can be sown in after maize crops, summer brassicas or whole crop cereal silage paddocks that have reached the end of their growth. Typically our farmer clients use Devour as winter green feed followed by spring silage crops.
Devour is also a component in our one of our new
Graze n' Hay Pasture Seed mixes but it can also be sown alone.
Other common uses for Devour are in a mix with winter brassica crops (i.e.
turnips or rape). This provides a low cost, bulk of winter green feed. As Devour is a tetraploid ryegrass, it can keep its leaf quality and palatability well into the winter months making it an ideal partner to these types of brassicas.
Devour Recommended Sowing Rates:
Devour when sown alone: 25 kgs per hectare.
Devour mixed with winter turnips:
15 kgs Devour per hectare + 500 grams Gaucho treated turnips per hectare.
Devour mixed with rape:
15 kgs Devour per hectare + 2 kgs Gaucho treated rape per hectare.
Website Link: Click here to go to our
Graze n' Hay Seed Mixes website page.
Website Link: Click here to go to our
Popular Brassica Mixes website page.
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Devour Annual Ryegrass website page.
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Standout New Ryegrass Cultivars.
Expo Perennial Ryegrass: 
Expo perennnial ryegrass is a
new release densely tillered, late flowering, diploid perennial ryegrass bred to deliver high quality feed throughout the year.
Expo is an extremely exciting new product from PGG Wrightsons Seeds that can be utilised in both rotational, and set stocking grazing systems with soils that have medium to high soil fertility.
Expo AR1 is available in good quantities ex harvest this year, and Expo AR37 will also become available ex harvest this year also, but only in limited amounts.
For more information on Expo please click on the video below or
get in contact with Specialty Seeds.
Base Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass: 
Base tetraploid perennnial ryegrass was selected from high yeilding, densely tillered plants that survived 2 years of severe drought and hard sheep grazing.
Base is currently available and in good stocks but only in AR37 endophyte form. This brings such benefits as improved persistence with protection from five of New ealands major pasture pests, an
For more information on Base AR37 Tetraploid Perennial ryegrass please
get in contact with Specialty Seeds.
Download Link: Click here to download the
Expo Perennial Ryegrass brochure.
Download Link: Click here to check out the
Base Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass brochure.
Download Link: Click here to check out the
Expo AR1 ryegrass Youtube video.
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Specialty Seeds ryegrasses website page.
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contact us.
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Managing Pasture through a Drought.
Extreme weather conditions have always been with us but recently it seems that throughout the world they are occurring more and more frequently and with more and more ferocity.
Drought is an on-going threat in many areas of New Zealand, normally occurring on eastern parts of New Zealand although currently a drought is looming in inland areas of Otago and Southland. The information below is a guide to help you with managing your pasture through a drought situation.
Why is management during a drought important:
Good management through a drought will give pastures a much faster recovery time, and will also reduce overall feed out costs. Depending on what happens, this may mean systems are back to normal in Autumn, rather than Spring. Good pasture supply may also create opportunities for buying stock coming out of the dry.
Drought Management Strategies
