Kale, Forage Rape & Hybrids
Kale is a brassica traditionally grown for grazing by cattle in the autumn and winter. It can also be cut and fed to stock "in house" or as an alternative can be ensiled as big bale kaleage. Kale is very useful as it can extend the grazing season. It is advisable to alternate sowing dates to ensure it does not over-mature.
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Hobson, the perfect variety for finishing lambs. Bred by Limagrain.
- Powdery mildew restistant; a disease which can make some crops unpalatable leading to a high wastage factor
- Proven on livestock farms throughout the UK
- Available treated with Start-uP and Sepiret
- Sowing rate 2.5kg drilled / 4kg broadcast per acre
A winter hardy variety with the potential to deliver high dry matter yields making it and a very desirable choice for dairy, beef or lamb and an excellent variety for game cover.
- Intermediate stemmed variety with excellent disease and aphid tolerance
- High leaf to stem ratio
- Untreated
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Rampart has feed quality enhancements which allows growers flexibility when feeding the crops. Ready to feed 12-14 weeks after sowing.
- Great winter hardiness
- High yield potential
- Suitable for dairy/lamb production
- Sowing rate: 2-3kg per acre.
Unicorn forage rape provides nutritious feed for beef, lamb or dairy production.
- Crops sown in May and June have the potential for regrowth after the initial grazing.
- May-drilled crops should be ready to graze in 12 weeks
- Sow May-end August
- Available with seed treatment
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Thousand Head Kale is a popular, tried and tested variety with good standing ability and winter hardiness.
- Thousand Head is a slender stemmed variety bearing leafy foliage.
- Excellent winter hardiness providing forage for feeding after Christmas.
- Can supply approximately 90 tonnes/ha of green forage matter.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Very tall variety with excellent winter hardiness. A branching, umbrella shaped canopy creates plenty of room underneath for pheasants and partridges.
- Good winter hardiness and excellent feeding quality
- Fresh yields 15% higher than Caledonian and 10% higher than Bittern
- Tried and tested for many years and is still very popular today
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
A fast establishing kale/rape hybrid that can be ready for use in only eight weeks. Suitable for both grazing and game cover applications.
- Winter Hardy
- High energy
- Suitable for cattle and sheep
- Fast establishment (8 weeks)
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Skyfall (Hybrid Brassica) has very fast growth and leafy, high protein forage. Can be sown later to allow it to be grazed in the autumn or winter months.
- Regrowth potential
- Possibility to produce extra feed
- Available with seed treatment
- Sowing rate 2kg/acre
- Packsize 2.5kg (Treated)
Spitfire Hybrid Forage Rape is a rape and kale hybrid, is a good companion to use with other fast establishing brassicas.
- Provide cover for a whole season
- Very vigorous and quick growing, ideal for replacing failed crops or patching
- Good disease and bolting resistance
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg per acre.
Swift is a rape and kale hybrid that provides high energy grazing for cattle and sheep throughout summer, autumn and winter.
- Fast and vigorous in growth with regrowth potential
- Winter hardiness, high energy and good protein source
- Good late season yield potential
- Sowing Rate: 2kg per acre.
Interval is a hybrid variety, produced by crossing rape and kale together. Creates a thick, leafy canopy to utilise in as little as 10-12 weeks.
- Fast growing properties of rape with the greater leaf canopy of kale.
- Winter hardy for a full season of cover.
- Grows to a height of 80-100cm.
- Sowing Rate: 2kg per acre.
Kale is vary adaptable and can grow on most sites throughout the UK. It can also be used as game cover (see Cover Crop section).
Forage Rape has the advantage of being a very fast growing crop, suitable for grazing by sheep or cattle. An ideal catch crop for boosting midsummer forage production for livestock farmers when planted in the spring, it is suitable for fattening lambs in the autumn/winter.
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