All SFI Seed Mixes

Fenugreek (Trigonella foenum-graecum) produces a natural odour to deter flea beetle from the oilseed rape crop. Very tender to frost and therefore reliably winter-killed.

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIPM3 IPM3 
• Rapid establishment, high vigour
• Produces natural odour to protect the oilseed rape plants
• Sow individually or combine in a mix of other companion species
• Best sown 7 days before drilling oilseed rape
• Sowing rate: c.10kg/ha as a companion crop

Use this mix for rotational CNUM3 (2024/2025) and NUM3 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (Legume Fallow), to establish a mix of vigorous legumes to flower for the summer months of May-August. This mix can also be used for SOH2 and SOH3 (2024) Sustainable Farming Incentive (Multi Species Spring/Summer Sown Cover Crop) to ensure the soil is protected and improve soil structure and biology.

• Can be sown on a different parcel of land each of the three years of the agreement 
• Provides valuable food source for beneficial insects and farmland birds 
• Adds nutrients into the soil and improves soil health and structure 
• Use for rotational implementation of CNUM3 and NUM3 Legume Fallow, or SOH2 and SOH3 Spring/Summer Cover Crops.
• Sow in spring or autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CNUM2 NUM2 CNUM3 NUM3 SOH2 SOH3
• Contains: 50% Vetch, 15% Linseed, 15% Buckwheat, 7.5% Crimson Clover, 7.5% Berseem Clover, 5% Phacelia
• Sowing rate: 15-20kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

Use this premium mixture for CIPM2 (2024/2025) and IPM2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive, and Countryside Stewardship AB8 (Flower-Rich Margins and Plots), to provide a nectar-rich habitat for butterflies, insects, birds & small mammals. This mix can be sown on its own or with other wildflower mixtures.

• Use for static implementation of CIPM2 and IPM2 Flower-Rich Margin schemes
• Sow in spring or autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIPM2 IPM2 
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship AB8 GS4 GS8 GS14 SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW7 SW8 WT1 WT2
  Contains: 30% Strong Creeping Red Fescue, 10.75% Chewing's Fescue, 10% Hard Fescue, 10% Timothy, 10% Slender Creeping Red Fescue, 6% Smooth Stalk Meadow Grass, 4.5% Red Clover, 4.5% Sainfoin, 4% Sheep's Fescue, 3% Alsike Clover, 2% Ribwort Plantain, 1.5% Birdsfoot Trefoil, 0.75% Yarrow, 0.5% Meadow Foxtail, 0.5% Selfheal, 0.5% Oxeye Daisy, 0.5% Sheep's Sorrel, 0.5% Common Knapweed, 0.5% Wild Carrot
• Sowing rate: 20kg/ha.

Use this mixture for CIPM2 (2024/2025) and IPM2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive, and Countryside Stewardship AB8 (Flower-Rich Margins and Plots), to provide an abundant supply of pollen and nectar-rich flowers for pollinators and beneficial insects and encourage natural crop pest predators.

• Use for static implementation of CIPM2 and IPM2 Flower-Rich Margin schemes
• Sow in spring or autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIPM2 IPM2 
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB8 GS8 GS14 SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 SW7 SW8 WT1 WT2 
• Contains: 40% Strong Creeping Red Fescue, 25% Chewings Fescue, 15% Hard Fescue, 5% Smooth Stalk Meadow Grass, 3.75% Sainfoin, 3.75% Common Vetch, 3% Crimson Clover, 2.5% Red Clover, 0.5% Birdsfoot Trefoil, 0.5% Ribwort Plantain, 0.25% Lucerne, 0.25% Alsike Clover, 0.25% Yarrow, 0.25% White Clover
• Sowing rate: 20kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

25% Early Perennial Ryegrass, 47% Intermediate Perennial Ryegrass, 14% Late Perennial Ryegrass, 14% Timothy

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Longer term mixture of entirely diploid varieties for quality hay
• Inclusion of timothy makes the mixture more palatable
• Up to five year duration for hay and haylage
• Can be grazed out of season if required
• Sowing rate: 14kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg

35% Hybrid Ryegrass, 28% Intermediate Perennial Ryegrass, 32% Late Perennial Ryegrass, 5% White Clover

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Includes a blend of both diploid and tetraploid ryegrass varieties 
• Delivers yield and quality for both cutting, grazing and use in anaerobic digestors
• Combines quality grass cutting and year round performance
• Will cut or graze equally well with high annual yields
• Excellent sward density so withstands heavy traffic
• No clover option includes additional 5% late PRG
• Sowing rate: 14kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg

Use this mixture for CIPM3 (2024/2025) and IPM3 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive to aid the establishment of oilseed rape plants. Maximum action against flea beetle provided by buckwheat's thick and dense canopy and fenugreek's degterring odour.

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIPM3 IPM3 
• Killed by frost without regrowth
• Best sown 7 days before drilling OSR
• Contains: 70% LIFAGO Buckwheat, 30% Fenugreek
• Sowing Rate: 10kg/ha

Use this mixture for SOH2 and SOH3 (2024/2025) Sustainable Farming Incentive (Multi Species Spring/Summer Sown Cover Crops), to provide short-term cover between cash crops. This mixture has been carefully formulated to protect the soil surface, and aid soil conditioning through a range of rooting depths and types. 

• Easy to incorporate 
• Short-term, easy to establish summer cover 
• Flowering species to attract pollinators 
• Use for rotational implementation of SOH2 and SOH3 Multi Species Spring/Summer Sown Cover Crop
• Sow from March - May for SOH2 agreements 
• Sow from June - August for SOH3 agreements
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): SOH2 SOH3
• Contains: 40% Vetch, 30% Buckwheat, 25% Linseed, 5% Phacelia 
• Sowing rate: 10kg/ha 

Use this mixture for CSAM2, SOH4 (2024/2025) and SAM2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (Multi Species Winter Cover), to provide ground cover and rooting structure throughout the winter months. This mix contains a range of frost-tolerant species to provide cover from autumn through to drilling of spring crops. Varying plant types and root profiles maximise soil conditioning and spring organic matter production. 

• Frost-tolerant 
• Range of rooting depths and types 
• High organic matter production 
• Fixes and catches nitrogen
• Used for rotational implementation of CSAM2 and SAM2 Multi Species Winter Cover and SOH4 Winter Cover Following Maize Crops
• Sow early autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CSAM2 SOH4 SAM2
• Contains: 50% Rye, 25% Vetch, 10% White Mustard, 5% Brown Mustard, 5% Crimson Clover, 5% Oil Radish
• Sowing rate: 25kg/ha 

Blend of three Italian Ryegrass varieties and two Hybrid Ryegrass varieties

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Mixture of both diploid and tetraploid varieties
• Intensive cutting mixture for up to three years
• Responsive to high fertiliser input
• Excellent forage quality for ensiling and use in anaerobic digestors
• Good regrowth after cutting
• Sowing rate: 14kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg

20% Westerwolds, 25% Hybrid Ryegrass, 25% Italian Ryegrass, 30% Early Perennial Ryegrass

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Suitable for intensive cutting regimes with high yields
• Can be used as an after maize mixture and for anaerobic digestion
• 67D approx. 6 weeks after cutting with high sugar content
• Rapid recovery after defoliation ensures reliable cuts later 
• Suitable for high Nitrogen input systems
• Sowing rate: 14 kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg 

Use this 2 year mixture for CAHL2 (2024/2025) and AHL2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and AB9 Countryside Stewardship (Winter Bird Food), providing grain-bearing plants for farmland birds, especially Grey Partridges, through autumn and winter for two seasons. Excellent feed and cover for game birds throughout the shooting season.

• Farmland birds eat the seeds from October and beneficial insects including bees and butterflies use the flowers during the summer
• Sow in spring or early summer for optimum establishment
• Re-sow every two years of your agreement
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL2 AHL2 
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB9  
• Contains: 50% Spring Barley, 30% Spring Triticale, 7% White Millet, 5% Linseed, 5% Fodder Radish, 3% Kale
• Sowing rate: 40-50kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

Use this mixture for CSAM2, SOH4 (2024/2025) and SAM2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (Multi Species Winter Cover), to provide ground cover and rooting structure throughout the winter months. Vetch has a prolonged growing season and fixes Nitrogen at lower temperatures than other legumes. Rye develops a strong root structure to scavenge Nitrogen from the previous crop.

• Fixes and catches Nitrogen - Winter hardy mixture
• Low cost - Good weed suppression
• Used for rotational implementation of CSAM2 and SAM2 Multi Species Winter Cover and SOH4 Winter Cover Following Maize Crops
• Sow early autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CSAM2 SOH4 SAM2 
• Contains: 80% Rye, 20% Vetch
• Sowing rate: 40kg/ha. EFA Compliant

Use this mixture for CAHL2 (2024/2025) and AHL2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and AB9 Countryside Stewardship (Winter Bird Food), to provide important food resources for farmland birds, during autumn and winter.

• Farmland birds eat the seeds from October and beneficial insects including bees and butterflies use the flowers during the summer
• Sow in spring or early summer for optimum establishment - suitable for later sowings and re-sowing of failed crops, where permitted
• Re-sow in each year of your agreement
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL2 AHL2
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB9
• Contains: 35% Buckwheat, 30% Linseed, 15% White Mustard, 10% Oil Radish, 5% Brown Mustard, 5% Phacelia
• Sowing rate: 8-10kg/ha (added to c.40kg cereals) or 15-20kg/ha (as a standalone mix). Pack size: 20kg

Use this 1 year mixture for CAHL2 (2024/2025) and AHL2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and AB9 Countryside Stewardship (Winter Bird Food) to provide food and shelter for farmland birds, especially Finches and Corn Buntings, during autumn and winter.

• Farmland birds eat the seeds from October and beneficial insects including bees and butterflies use the flowers during the summer
• Sow in spring or early summer for optimum establishment
• Re-sow in each year of your agreement
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL2 AHL2
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB9
• Contains: 50% Spring Barley, 30% Spring Triticale, 7% Sunflower, 5% Red Millet, 5% White Millet, 3% Quinoa
• Sowing rate: 50kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg