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.
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A new variety with the potential to deliver high dry matter yields making it and ideal choice for dairy, beef or lamb producers.
- A taller stemmed variety with excellent resistance to lodging.
- High leaf to stem ratio.
- Available untreated or treated with Start-uP & Sepiret.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Caledonian Kale is the first variety to be bred with resistance to club root. A taller variety which gives easier access for birds underneath the leaf canopy.
- Taller variety to allow birds to move freely under the leaf canopy.
- Club root resistant, can be sown on sites suffering from brassica sickness.
- Available untreated or treated with Start-up & Sepiret.
- Specifically bred for UK conditions. High germination and early vigour.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Goldeneye kale is a giant type bred for the game cover market, selected for the optimum combination of height and leaf production.
- Leafy top, strong stem, good winter hardiness and good tolerance to disease, making it the ideal choice for game cover use
- Goldeneye achieves a higher vigour score than Caledonian kale and better club root tolerance.
- Sowing rate: 3kg per acre.
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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.
Keeper Kale will provide excellent cover and maximum protection for your birds.
- A shorter variety with excellent lodging resistance
- High leaf to stem ratio, providing excellent leaf cover
- Winter hardy and tested for germination and vigour to ensure the maximum establishment
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Pinfold Kale will provide excellent yields in a short period of time.
- Fast growing and ideal for early sowings
- Flexible utilisation, summer use as well
- Excellent digestibility
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack size 2kg
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)
High protein content and high dry matter yield. Late flowering variety that will perform well whether sown for summer, autumn or winter use.
- Good winter hardiness.
- Clubroot tolerant.
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg per acre.
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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.
A blend of Winfred Hybrid Brassica and Forage Rape. A vigourous and quick growing seed mixture making it ideal for failed crops.
- Provide cover for a whole season
- Vigorous and quick growing, ideal for replacing failed crops or patching
- Good disease and bolting resistance
- 50% Hybrid Brassica and 50% Forage Rape
- Pack size: 5kg untreated
- Sowing rate: 2.5kg 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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