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Pasja 2 Leafy Turnip is a fast-establishing, high-quality hybrid brassica bred for quick feed production, excellent regrowth, and superior palatability. It combines the rapid growth of a turnip with the regrowth ability of forage rape, providing versatile, multi-graze feed throughout summer, autumn, and early winter.
Developed for modern New Zealand farming systems, Pasja 2 delivers high yields of leafy, energy-rich feed that supports fast animal growth and efficient feed utilisation - ideal for sheep, beef, and dairy systems.
| Persistence | Up to 6 months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
4kg per hectare |
- Rapid Growth: Ready to graze in as little as 6–8 weeks after sowing.
- Outstanding Regrowth: Capable of 2–3 grazings under good management.
- Leafy Growth Habit: Produces a dense canopy with minimal bulb, ensuring easy grazing.
- Heat & Drought Tolerant: Maintains performance through warm, dry conditions.
- Excellent Palatability: Soft, sweet leaves encourage full grazing and minimal wastage
Dash Leafy Turnip is a fast-growing, high-quality forage brassica that delivers exceptional early feed and strong regrowth potential. Bred for quick establishment and excellent palatability, Dash is a short-term, multi-graze crop ideal for summer, autumn, and early winter feed.
This leafy turnip produces high-energy feed within 6–8 weeks of sowing, making it an excellent option for filling feed gaps, finishing lambs, or boosting dairy and beef production during dry or high-demand periods.
| Persistence | Up to 6 months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
4kg per hectare |
- Rapid Growth: Ready to graze in 6–8 weeks, providing quick feed when it’s most needed.
- Leafy Canopy: Produces lush, soft leaves with minimal bulb, ensuring easy grazing and maximum utilisation.
- Excellent Regrowth: Can provide 2–3 grazings under good management.
- Heat and Dry Tolerant: Performs well through warm, dry conditions where other forages struggle.
- Good Disease Resistance: Tolerant to common brassica leaf diseases, including powdery mildew.
- Flexible Sowing Window: Suitable for spring, summer, or early autumn sowing across most regions
Spitfire Rape is a high-yielding, fast-growing forage rape bred in New Zealand to deliver exceptional versatility, quality, and regrowth potential. It combines the early maturity of Winfred with the leafiness and persistence of Goliath, creating a robust brassica that performs across a wide range of conditions.
With rapid establishment, high energy content, and strong regrowth after grazing, Spitfire is ideal for summer, autumn, and early winter feed, providing flexible, high-quality forage for lambs, cattle, and dairy systems.
90-110 Days until grazing.
Recommended sowing rate of 4kg per hectare.
| Persistence | Up to 9 months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
4kg per hectare |
- Fast Establishment: Rapid early growth - ready to graze in as little as 10–12 weeks after sowing.
- Excellent Regrowth: Capable of producing 2–3 grazings under good management.
- High Leaf-to-Stem Ratio: Soft, leafy structure for easy grazing and high utilisation.
- Strong Disease Tolerance: Excellent resistance to powdery mildew and leaf spot.
- Broad Sowing Window: Can be sown spring through early autumn for flexible feed planning.
Invitation Swede is a modern, high-yielding, yellow-fleshed swede bred for exceptional bulb quality, strong disease resistance, and winter reliability. With its high energy content and excellent palatability, Invitation delivers top animal performance and is a proven performer across New Zealand’s temperate and cooler farming regions.
This variety combines strong early growth, firm, smooth bulbs, and improved club root resistance, making it a smart choice for farmers seeking consistent, high-quality winter feed
Sowing Rate: 1-1.5kg per hectare
Key benefits
- Outstanding Feed Quality: High-energy yellow-fleshed bulbs for excellent live weight gain and animal condition.
- Strong Early Growth: Rapid establishment and canopy development provide early vigour and weed suppression.
- Excellent Palatability: Sweet, firm bulbs with smooth skin encourage full grazing and minimal waste.
- Disease Resistance: Improved tolerance to club root, dry rot, and mildew, offering dependable yield stability.
- Mid–Late Maturing: Around 200–230 days to grazing, ideal for mid- to late-winter feeding.
- Winter Hardiness: Maintains bulb integrity and feed quality through cold, wet winter conditions
Coleor Kale is a high-yielding, late-maturing French-bred kale variety recognised for its exceptional winter hardiness, high leaf yield, and excellent disease tolerance. It’s an ideal choice for dairy, beef, and sheep farmers seeking a reliable, energy-dense feed source through the colder months.
Coleor produces a dense canopy of leafy forage with strong stem strength and high dry matter content, ensuring excellent animal utilisation and minimal wastage.
Sowing Rate: 4-5kg per hectare
Key benefits
- High Leaf Yield: Outstanding leaf-to-stem ratio, delivering soft, palatable feed with strong nutritional value.
- Superior Winter Hardiness: Performs exceptionally in cold, wet conditions; maintains leaf quality and yield through frost periods.
- Strong Disease Resistance: Demonstrates excellent tolerance to leaf spot, Alternaria, and powdery mildew.
- Late Maturity: Around 210–240 days from sowing to grazing - ideal for late winter or early spring feeding.
Berseem Clover is a fast-establishing annual legume that excels in warm soils and provides quality forage and nitrogen fixation within a single season. It is particularly suited for grazing, green manure use, and short-term forage rotations. In New Zealand conditions it works well as a seasonal legume for late winter/early spring grazing or cutting, and in situations where rapid ground cover and nitrogen input are required.
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
- Provides high-quality feed in seasons when perennial pastures may be slower -- supporting livestock growth or production.
- Improves soil fertility and nitrogen reserves, reducing reliance on synthetic nitrogen fertiliser.
- Offers flexibility in pasture or crop rotation systems - useful for rejuvenation, short-term forage or strategic sowing.
- Offers flexibility in pasture or crop rotation systems — useful for rejuvenation, short-term forage or strategic sowing.
Paeroa Red Clover is a high-yielding, persistent, erect red clover bred in New Zealand for long-term pasture performance. It delivers exceptional dry matter production, strong regrowth after grazing or cutting, and outstanding feed quality. Paeroa is an ideal choice for intensive grazing, silage, or hay systems, providing both productivity and reliability across a range of soil types.
| Persistence | Up to 4 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-3kg per hectare in a mix |
- Erect Growth Habit: Produces strong, upright stems for easy cutting and excellent silage or hay production.
- High Yield Potential: Proven performer in New Zealand trials, producing top-quality feed with strong regrowth.
- Strong Regrowth: Rapid recovery after cutting or grazing ensures multiple harvests per season.
- Excellent Feed Value: High in protein and energy to support fast weight gain and milk production.
- Nitrogen Fixation: Contributes significant nitrogen to companion grasses and improves soil fertility.
Pinnacle is a large-leaf, high-yielding white clover bred in New Zealand to deliver outstanding feed production and animal performance. It produces high levels of quality forage through spring and summer and is ideally suited to dairy and finishing systems where feed demand and fertility are high.
With excellent compatibility in mixed pastures, Pinnacle is a premium clover choice for driving productivity and profitability.
| Persistence | 5 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
2-4kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date |
- Large-Leaf Variety: Offers superior yield and clover bulk compared with traditional types like Huia.
- High Feed Quality: Excellent palatability and digestibility for milk and liveweight gain.
- Strong Summer Growth: Maintains feed quality and productivity during warm conditions.
- Excellent Nitrogen Fixation: Improves soil fertility and supports vigorous companion grass growth.
- Good Persistence: Well adapted to rotational grazing and medium-to-high fertility soils.
Phalaris is a deep-rooted perennial grass known for its exceptional drought tolerance, persistence, and adaptability to a wide range of soils. Originally developed for dryland farming systems, Phalaris performs best in summer-dry, free-draining environments where it provides long-term, high-quality feed.
It is one of the most persistent temperate grasses available, capable of surviving both drought and grazing stress when properly managed.
is best in a mix as you can get Phalaris staggers is the biggest risk in straight stands, caused by alkaloids (tryptamines and β-carbolines) that can build up in plants under certain conditions
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
1-3kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date | Early |
- Ideal for dryland and marginal country, reducing re-sowing frequency due to its long lifespan.
- Is known to reduce grass grub pressure in pastures.
- Improves pasture resilience in the face of dry spells, reducing bare soil exposure.
Gala Grazing Brome is a perennial brome grass cultivar that offers the performance of ryegrass in the brome family. It is ideally suited for free-draining soils, particularly in summer-dry or low-rainfall regions, and is designed to provide rapid autumn recovery, strong winter and early-spring growth, and high persistence under grazing.
| Persistence | 3-5 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
6-12kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date | Early |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Extends productive pasture in challenging conditions – particularly for summer-dry, light-soil farms.
- Safe for stock thanks to nil endophyte status, reducing animal-health risks.
- Reduces reliance on high-input perennial ryegrass in marginal or dryland paddocks.
Matua Prairie Grass is a specialist forage grass originally developed for New Zealand conditions. It performs particularly well through the cooler months (autumn, winter, spring) while also maintaining good palatability and performance into warmer seasons. It is especially suited to free-draining soils with moderate to good fertility and offers a valuable option when looking for feed resilience and diversification in pasture systems.
| Persistence | Up to 3 years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
6-12kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date | Early |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Provides good early spring growth.
- Extends the productive season of your pasture by filling the feed gap in cooler months and maintaining quality into the warmer season.
- Adds resilience to your grazing system - especially useful in free-draining soils or where summer feed drop-off is an issue.
- Improves feed quality and animal performance thanks to its palatable, leafy growth habit.
- Provides a diversification option in pasture mixes, reducing reliance on ryegrass-only swards and improving overall pasture stability.
Note: Saxon Diploid Ryegrass is only available through Wesco as part of a custom pasture mix and cannot be purchased as a standalone product.
DENSELY TILLARED HIGH PREFORMING RYEGRASS
Saxon is a traditional-style diploid perennial ryegrass renowned for its density, persistence, and reliability under New Zealand conditions. Saxon delivers excellent early spring growth, strong sward structure, and long-term durability under regular grazing.
This hardy, proven variety forms the foundation of many of Wesco’s most dependable pasture mixes, offering exceptional persistence and resilience in both dryland and higher rainfall systems.
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | High Endophyte, Nil Endophyte |
| Sowing rate |
23-27kg per hectare |
| heading date | Plus 3 Days |
| Best used for | Grazing |
- Older well proven ryegrass.
- Does not pull even in peat.
Redefine Cocksfoot is a modern, fine-tillered cocksfoot cultivar designed especially for summer-dry and low-fertility regions. Unlike older cocksfoot types that can dominate and suppress clovers, Redefine has a controlled, cooperative growth habit so it mixes well with ryegrass and legumes while providing strong summer feed and persistence
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
2-3kg per hectare in a mix |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Extends productive pasture through the summer when many cool-season grasses slow or fail.
- Enhances pasture resilience in low-input or low-fertility soils - less reliant on high fertiliser inputs.
- Improved animal feed quality via softer-leaf growth and high tiller count - supporting better grazing utilisation.
- Works well as a component in mixtures with ryegrass and legumes, thereby improving overall pasture system stability and diversity.
FineFeed is a fine-leaved, diploid annual ryegrass bred to deliver rapid establishment, high tiller density and strong recovery under heavy grazing. Suited to a wide range of environments - especially where tougher conditions or heavier grazing make tetraploids less resilient.
With its robust growth and excellent feed quality, FineFeed is an ideal choice for farmers seeking a reliable annual ryegrass for winter/spring feed, silage or grazing systems.
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Rapid Feed Establishment: Quick germination and strong growth provide early feed when needed.
- High Quality Forage: Fine leaf, high density structure contributes to palatability and nutritive value.
- Resilient Under Grazing: Adapted to heavier grazing regimes and tough pasture situations.
- Flexible Use: Ideal for grazing, silage/hay or as a component in mixed pasture systems.
Fury is a high-yielding, late-flowering tetraploid ryegrass selected for rapid establishment, excellent winter and spring growth. It is ideal as a short-term feed crop - whether for grazing, silage or hay - and is especially suited for autumn sowing and cool-season feed production
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Provides fast growth and quality feed when you need to bridge seasonal feed gaps (e.g., autumn sowing into winter/spring).
- Maintains leafy growth later into the season - useful where earlier-heading grasses go to seed too soon.
- Well-suited for short-term pasture applications (e.g., 6–12 months) including grazing, silage or hay production.
- Enables good utilisation and feed quality thanks to tetraploid traits and late heading
Splice Hybrid Ryegrass is a high-performance tetraploid inter-species cross combining perennial ryegrass, Italian ryegrass, meadow fescue and tall fescue. This cultivar has been specifically bred for New Zealand conditions to deliver rapid establishment, strong year-round growth, and excellent feed quality, along with improved persistence under grazing and summer stress.
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | AR1, Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Delivers premium feed quality for high-output systems - improved animal performance from earlier and continuous feed.
- Extends the grazing window - late heading keeps the sward leafy and productive later into spring.
- Versatile: works for dairy, beef, sheep or deer systems needing a high-performance pasture component.
- Strong in both grazing and silage applications due to its robust growth and persistence profile.
Shogun Hybrid Ryegrass is a premium tetraploid, perennial × Italian ryegrass hybrid. It combines the quick strike and high winter/spring production of Italian ryegrasses with the improved longevity and summer yield traits of perennial ryegrasses. Ideal for short-to-medium term pasture (1-3 years) or as an undersowing option to boost existing swards
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | NEA, NEA12, Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Delivers strong early feed and high-yield production for finishing, dairying or grazing systems requiring rapid results.
- Rapid time to graze post‐sowing - less down‐time for paddocks.
- High palatability means livestock utilise more feed, improving performance and intake.
Hypa is a high-performance tetraploid hybrid ryegrass that blends the best of Italian and perennial ryegrass genetics. Designed for rapid establishment and year-round production, Hypa delivers strong, high-quality forage and is equally suited for short-rotation pasture or over-sowing into existing swards.
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- High quality, palatable feed that supports animal performance across livestock classes.
- Durable and persistent under variable conditions and grazing pressure.
- Flexible management options - can be used as a dedicated stand or to reinforce/over-sow existing pasture.
- Reduced risk of feed gaps thanks to extended seasonal growth window.
Active Hybrid Ryegrass is a long-rotation hybrid ryegrass that combines the persistence of perennial ryegrass with the rapid growth and feed quality of Italian ryegrass.
With its strong tillering habit, fine leaf, and high palatability, Active offers exceptional grazing value for sheep, beef, and dairy systems throughout New Zealand.
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Low Endophyte |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- Hybrid strength: Combines the vigour of Italian ryegrass with the persistence of perennial ryegrass.
- Rapid establishment: Quick to strike and ready for grazing sooner after sowing.
- High feed quality: Produces dense, leafy, highly digestible feed for all livestock classes.
- Strong cool-season growth: Excellent winter and early-spring production to fill seasonal feed gaps.
- High palatability: Fine-leafed, dark green sward that livestock prefer and graze efficiently.
Base Perennial Ryegrass is a late-heading tetraploid ryegrass bred to deliver exceptional feed quality, strong seasonal growth, and excellent animal performance. It’s known for its dense, leafy growth habit and outstanding palatability, making it one of the most preferred pasture options for high-performance dairy, beef, and sheep systems.
| Persistence | 3-5 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | AR37, AR1, Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
- High-yielding tetraploid: Larger leaves with higher sugar content for improved palatability and animal intake.
- Excellent feed quality: Consistently high metabolisable energy and digestibility.
- Late-heading growth: Keeps pastures leafy and high-quality well past spring.
- Strong cool-season growth: Provides valuable feed during autumn and winter.
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