Pasture Blends

Highly Persistent Pasture Blend. Our Dryland Blend is perfectly suited to areas of lower rainfall, lower fertility, and harsher soil types and climates. The early heading dates of the ryegrass allows for substantial seed set, which contributes to the persistence of the pasture as plants can be recruited from the seed, maintaining pasture density. The addition of clovers increases the protein value of the feed, while also adding nitrogen into the soil. Clovers, excluding Sub Clover, are coated and inoculated for early insect protection and maximum nitrogen fixation. Cocksfoot is a deep-rooted perennial grass ideal for dry or sandy soils. Beverly has high forage yields, good disease resistance and excellent feed quality.

Hickseeds Ryegrass Blend is an economical blend of highly persistent ryegrasses. The early heading dates of both Vic and Tactic allows for substantial seed set. This contributes to the persistence of the pasture as plants can be recruited from seed, maintaining pasture density. Silver Bullet is a late heading tetraploid ryegrass that has exceptional dry matter production and is highly palatable. Tactic is a highly tillering diploid ryegrass, making it the perfect companion variety in this blend. Ryegrass Blend is the perfect blend to use when looking to over sow tired and thinned out pastures. This allrounder ryegrass blend will contribute to the dry matter production of your pastures for many years to come.

This blend of Italian Ryegrass is specifically designed for maximum growth, persisting for 18-24 months. The Italians blend has very high energy levels and low aftermath heading, making it ideal for silage and hay production. The lack of endophyte makes it ideal for grazing by all classes of livestock. This blend establishes rapidly with high quality, leafy growth and excellent recovery from grazing. Italians demonstrates very strong growth through autumn, winter and spring; increasing the competition against weeds. The ratio of tetraploid to diploid varieties in this blend creates a very dense canopy, not only increasing dry matter production, but further preventing weed invasion. The aggressive growth habit of varieties in this blend make it ideal for over-sowing into existing pasture to boost silage paddocks or extend the life of paddocks prior to renovation. *This blend is also available with Clovers

Hickseeds Annual & Clovers Blend is an exceptional blend for winter grazing or silage and hay production. It is easy to manage, late maturing and high yielding. A blend of late heading annual varieties has been paired with high yielding annual clovers to provide an outstanding quality pasture. It is highly palatable and digestible, with exceptional protein and energy levels. Top quality fodder can be conserved from this blend, suitable for any class of livestock. The short lifecycle of this blend makes it perfect for use in your pasture renovation program. The use of an annual species prior to re-sowing permanent pasture, can improve renovation results by reducing weeds and improving soil health. Sowing this blend in autumn will provide a valuable source of high-quality feed over the winter and spring period.

Quality Annual Ryegrass blend. A combination of Jivet, Prine and Fuze form this premium annual ryegrass blend. All varieties in this blend are aggressive and late heading, resulting in quality feed then into silage production. Ideal for renovation programs, this blend will meet all your feed demands while you are improving the paddock. This leafy blend has high palatability and digestibility with excellent protein and energy levels. Our Annuals Blend establishes quickly after sowing and produces high yields of quality feed through late autumn, winter and spring. This blend also responds very well to nitrogen applications over the growing season.

Annual Renovation Blend. A combination of Saia Oats and Tetila Annual Ryegrass form this economical pasture blend. These two varieties are highly compatible due to their similarities in seed size, leafy and erect canopy structure and maturity dates. Winter forage is easy to manage and will produce a large amount of fast establishing leafy feed over the autumn and winter periods. This creates substantial competition for weeds which may germinate through the growing season. Specifically designed to be used in renovation programs, this blend lends itself to those paddocks that will be used for summer cropping. The early heading nature of Winter Feed allows for adequate seed bed preparation, prior to sowing the following crop. Winter Feed can be used for grazing and also silage and hay production.

Perennial Endophyte Blend. The Supreme Dairy Blend only contains perennial ryegrass varieties which are protected with the “NEA” family of novel endophytes. This provides the plant with resistance to some insect pests such as African black beetle, Root Aphid and Argentine Stem Weevil. Novel endophytes also help to increase livestock production by increasing palatability, reducing staggers and heat stress commonly associated with standard endophyte. Supreme Dairy Blend is a unique combination of 60% late maturing tetraploid ryegrass and 40% late maturing diploid ryegrass. Palatability and increased production are the most important advantages to tetraploid over diploid varieties in a high fertility system. However, tetraploids planted alone can be vulnerable to close grazing, causing crown damage which will affect stand life. This can then result in loss of production. The inclusion of a high producing diploid variety in this blend reduces the risk of overgrazing. The market leading varieties in this blend will help you to achieve maximum animal performance in an intensive grazing system.

Premium Perennial Blend Supreme Dairy Blend & Clovers is an outstanding blend of permanent pasture. It contains high yielding, late maturing perennial ryegrasses that are protected by the “NEA” family of novel endophytes. The addition of clovers increase the protein value of feed while also adding nitrogen into the soil. All clovers are coated and inoculated for early insect protection and maximum nitrogen fixation. The market leading ryegrass in this blend will help you to achieve maximum animal performance in an intensive grazing system. The addition of White and Sub Clovers help to further improve crude protein levels in the pasture throughout the year when moisture is available. For high quality and high yielding permanent pasture, Supreme Dairy Blend & clovers is the only choice.

Late Heading Hybrid Ryegrass and clover blend Shogun is a late heading (+26 days) hybrid ryegrass. It is a genetic cross between Italian Ryegrass and Perennial Ryegrass and will last for 2.5-3 years. Shogun produces exceptional yield across the year and is noted for strong winter and summer growth. Shogun contains the novel NEA endophyte. This provides the plant with resistance to some insect pests such as African Black Beetle, Root Aphid and Argentine Stem Weevil. Novel endophytes also help to increase livestock production by increasing palatability, reducing staggers and heat stress commonly associated with standard endophyte. The addition of clovers increases the protein value of the feed, while also adding nitrogen into the soil. All clovers are coated and inoculated for early insect protection and maximum nitrogen fixation. Red Clover is great addition to this blend due to its high production throughout spring and summer. The feed of this pasture blend cannot be beaten and is perfect for your dairy, finishing operation or silage production.

Late Heading Perennial Blend Superb Blend is a fast establishing, high yielding blend with proven persistence. Late heading varieties help to hold quality late into the season when moisture is available. Silver Bullet is a tetraploid perennial ryegrass that has exceptional winter and spring production, high dry matter yield and palatability. Silver Bullet also has high starch and sugar levels, providing energy for milk production or live weight gain. Trooper and Tactic diploid perennial ryegrasses are densely tillered and persistent whilst sharing the late heading date of Silver Bullet, which helps to maximize late season quality. Superb Blend should be used when high quality production is required in areas of moderate fertility or less intensive management.

Late Heading Perennial Ryegrass and Clovers Superb Blend and Clovers combines all of the excellent features of the Superb Blend, with the added benefits of White, Balansa and Sub Clovers. This blend is a fast establishing, high yielding blend, with proven persistence. Late heading ryegrass varieties help this blend to hold quality late into the season, under conditions when moisture is adequate. Silver Bullet is a tetraploid perennial ryegrass that has exceptional winter and spring production, high dry matter yield and palatability. Silver Bullet also has high starch and sugar levels, providing energy for milk production or live weight gain. Trooper and Tactic are densely tillered and persistent whilst sharing the heading date of Silver Bullet maximising late season quality. The addition of White Clovers increases the protein of the feed while also adding nitrogen into the soil. Sub Clover has been added for long term persistence. Clovers excluding Sub Clover are coated and inoculated for early insect protection and maximum nitrogen fixation.

Perennial Pasture Blend This Budget Blend is an economical and persistent blend of ryegrass & clovers. That would also be suited to more challenging environments, such as drier areas or lower fertility. The addition of clovers to this blend make it ideal as a general-purpose pasture, that can be cut for silage or hay.

Perennial Pasture Blend. Equine Blend has been designed to minimise the potential adverse health effects caused by some varieties of ryegrass. Staggers is the most common condition caused by wild-type ryegrass endophyte, with horses being particularly susceptible. This specialist blend contains low endophyte varieties, thereby improving animal health whilst maintaining pasture production. Strawberry Clover has been added to improve the feed quality of the pasture by increasing protein and calcium levels. Clover also supplies the soil with nitrogen, boosting pasture production.