Sorghum
Sunflowers Medium Sunflowers
Carbon
Millet
• Same tillage requirements as maize and pH • Needs consistent soil temps of 14-15°C, usually from June • Use a stale seedbed for grassweed control
Bartholomews Millet Blend 25kg/ha
Winter hardy. 4kg/ha
12kg/ha
• Very fast esablishment • Frost tolerant • Kale/mustard hybrid • Similar to Utopia/Texsel Greens • Best sown in June/July • Can be sown into cereal stubbles • Not as winter hardy as other varieties
• Wider window of shed seed • White and red • Feed value from September to December
• Medium Sunflowers • Complements Maize crops • Taller growth habit with thick stems • Grows to 2m approx
• Provides an excellent feed block • Can be cross drilled or broadcast in maize crops for feeding and draughts
Dwarf Sorghum Shorty
Winter Hardy 20kg/ha
Magic Millet Blend
• Adds warmth to maize when sown in an adjacent position • Ideal for driving and winter cover • Excellent replacement for Kale • Can create flushing points within maize Intermediate Sorghum DP2
Winter hardy. 10kg/ha
• Can be used as a windbreak • Reed, red and white millet Kale
Dwarf Sunflowers
Keeper
12kg/ha
Winter hardy. 4kg/ha
• Short growth habit • Grows to 1.5m approx
• Best drilled in rows facing the
Winter Hardy 20kg/ha
14
15
direction the birds are to be flushed. • Through cross drilling at the ends of the plot can make the cover warmer. • Kale does not offer any feed value so partner with a seed bearing crop. • 2 year potential. Caledonian
• Good early vigour • Provides good leaf cover • Medium Height
• Ideal replacement for Maize • Good driving cover • Herbicide use possible
Quinoa
5kg/ha
Giant Sorghum Jumbo Star
• Sheds large number of seeds • Ideal for partridges, pheasants and farmland birds • Intolerant to acid soils • A good companion to Kale
Winter Hardy 20kg/ha
Winter hardy. 4kg/ha
• Good vigour and fast growth • Tall dense cover can be used for a wind break around maize • Can reach 5-6ft • Greater standing power due to thicker stem • Crops screen guns
• Clubroot resistance • Can be continuously grown on brassica sick sites • Taller Kale • Excellent germination and vigour potential
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