Quality Pasture seed
Our Pasture Seed is productive and meets the nutritional needs of livestock, withstands grazing and persist, resists disease and weed invasion, provides good ground cover throughout the year and does not cause livestock health problems.
Pasture seed stock:
We offer the following pasture seed in our stock:
- Casbah Biserrula.
- Margurita Serradella.
- Hykon Rose.
- Dalkeith.
- Medic.
- Rhodes grass.
- Panic.
- Linseed / Horse linseed.
Professional pasture seed service
Our team of trained and accredited staff, pride ourselves on paying close attention to detail to produce and supply quality pasture seed.
Varieties
Frano Serradella
Frano Serradella is the new cultivar of French (Pink) Serradella developed by Murdoch University. This pasture seed’s trial has just been completed and now ready for sale next season.
Key Features:
most suited for deep sands & sandy loams area, preferred soil pH 4.0 to 7.0.
Similar maturity time to Margurita Serradella (Mid-late)
Margurita Serradella
Margurita Serradella, also known as French Serradella or Pink Serradella, is an annual legume native to the Mediterranean region. This seed was first released in Australia in 1996 as a soft-seeded serradellas which was later improved with higher levels of hard seed and more persistent than the previous generation of French Serradella.
Key Features:
Higher level of hard seed than Cadiz. More erect variety than Erica and is better suited to fodder conservation.
Pinnate (fern-like) leaves up to 10 mm long and 3-4 mm wide. Small pale pink flowers.
Similar maturity time to Cadiz and Erica (Mid-season approximately 121-125 days to maturity)
Casbah Biserrula
Biserrula is a persistent pasture legumes for Mediterranean farming systems. Biserrula is a prolific seed producer and can survive long crop rotations. Casbah biserrula is a mid-season cultivar suitable for intensive pasture-crop rotations.
Key Features:
Hard seed, a deep root system and a high level of grazing tolerance variety.
Suitable for use on fine textured soils with acidic and alkaline reactions including sandy loams and clay loams.
Higher level of hardseededness than Mauro and is better suited to intensive or multiple crop rotations
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Dalkeith Clover
Dalkeith is an early maturing, semi-erect subterranean clover suitable for moderate acidic, well-drained soils with low rainfall environment. This is a black-seed sub-clover with high percentage of hardness and high tolerant to hard grazing. It is, however, very susceptible to clover scorch and perform best when the pasture phase of the farming areas is at least two years.
Key features:
Early flowering cultivar.
Vigorous seedlings.
Tolerant of heavy grazing under set stocking.
Caliph Barrel Medic
Caliph is an early-mid maturing and generally begins flowering 80 days after germination, up to five days earlier than Parabinga. Caliph is semi-prostrate in habit, has leaflets with a slight purple fleck on the underside and produces clockwise coiling pods. Caliph has a boron toxicity tolerance superior to that of all other medic cultivars. Caliph is recommended for neutral to alkaline soil types ranging from sandy loams to clays, in the medium to low rainfall zones.
Key Features:
Earliest maturing aphid-resistant barrel medic.
Good seedling and early vigour.
Moderate tolerance of soil boron toxicity.
Resistance to spotted alfalfa aphid & blue green aphic.
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Panic
Panic Grass is a highly palatable, leafy, warm season bunch grass that is drought tolerant and responds rapidly to rain following a dry spell. It has demonstrated very good persistence and biomass production on sandy soils, including deep pale sands in both the northern agricultural region and south coast of Western Australia (WA), but does not tolerate waterlogging or flooding.
Key Features:
Tufted, highly palatable, leafy grass.
Moderate to high drought tolerance with excellent persistence through extended dry periods.
Good Spring growth and well adapted to sandy soils.