Small Seed Guide

Bartholomews Medium Term Cutting Mix (three – four year cutting)

Designed to produce at least three cuts of high quality silage and excellent autumn grazing. By offering a blend of hybrid and perennial ryegrasses, the mixture not only remains highly productive but will also persist for three years. This is a very popular mixture. Can have Red Clover added into the mix to increase protein content and for nitrogen fixation.

• Good persistency and winter hardiness • Excellent conservation and grazing yields • High percentage soluble carbohydrate

Suggested sowing rate 32kg/ha. Pack size: 13kg

Mixture No. 3 Prime Cut & Graze (three – four year cutting ley) This mixture suits situations where early silage cuts are not possible, on wetter, low lying ground or to follow earlier Italian ryegrass leys. This mixture can provide a second cut of high-quality silage, if required, before being returned to the summer grazing ground. • Productive cutting ley with good autumn grazing

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• Excellent conservation and grazing yields • Good disease resistance and persistency • Close heading dates to enable good quality and quantity of silage and prolonged grazing • Highly digestible

Suggested sowing rate 35kg/ha. Pack size: 14kg

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