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HIGH-YIELD ITALIAN RYEGRASS BLEND
The Italian Multiblend is a highly effective combination of long and short rotation Italian ryegrasses, designed to deliver rapid establishment, strong regrowth, and exceptional feed quality. This mix provides an affordable, turbo-charged option for new pastures or rejuvenation, offering consistent yield and excellent grazing flexibility.
This Mix contains: Fascinate High Sugar Annual Italian 34% / Active Long Rotation Hybrid 33% / Rocket Diploid Italian 33%
Product Specs
| Persistence | 2-4 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 20 kg per hectare for under sowing / Into Pasture 30-34kg per hectare for sowing down |
| Best used for | Oversowing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- Rapid Establishment: Quick to strike and produce early bulk for silage or grazing.
- Extended Longevity: Offers production across 2–4 years depending on management and seasonal conditions.
- Improved Feed Quality: Provides digestible, high-sugar feed that supports milk and meat production.
- Affordable Pasture Solution: Delivers premium performance at a lower cost compared to perennial-based systems.
- Excellent Regrowth: Sustains high-quality regrowth between grazing's throughout the growing season
FAST-GROWING, BUDGET-FRIENDLY PASTURE
The Italian Value Blend is a great producer of quality feed at a budget-friendly price, offering excellent seasonal performance and fast establishment. It’s an ideal option for oversowing tired pastures, sowing down after cropping, or providing a seasonal feed boost without the cost of premium long-rotation mixes.
Variable Seed Composition: May include a mix of short and long-term Italian ryegrasses, tailored to seasonal availability.
Product Specs
| Persistence | Short Term |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 232 kg per hectare / 20kg per hectare for under sowing |
| Best used for | Oversowing, Short Term Pasture Option |
Key benefits
- Fast Feed Boost: Delivers quick establishment and early grazing opportunities for livestock.
- Budget-Friendly Pasture Renewal: Ideal for farmers looking for strong results without high input costs.
HIGH- YEILDING FORAGE MIX
The Kingsford Rape & Italian Ryegrass Mix is a superbly balanced combination of high-yielding forage species designed to deliver exceptional feed quality and grazing performance. This mix offers rapid growth, strong palatability, and improved animal health through a natural balance of energy and protein.
This Mix contains: Rocket diploid Italian ryegrass 25% + Kingsford rape 10%
Sowing Rate: 20kg per hectare
Key benefits
- Improved Animal Performance: The synergy between rape and Italian ryegrasses enhances feed energy and digestibility.
- High Feed Yield: Produces dense, leafy forage with excellent regrowth potential.
- Safe Grazing Mix: Reduced risk of nitrate toxicity thanks to Fascinate’s sugar conversion properties.
- Seasonal Flexibility: Performs well in a wide range of conditions and soil types, offering reliable production through cooler months.
Rocket Italian Ryegrass is a fast-establishing Italian ryegrass cultivar selected for rapid growth and quality feed, particularly suited to winter/early-spring grazing and silage systems. Its strong early strike and good regrowth make it a valuable short-to-medium term pasture option
Product Specs
| Persistence | Up to 24 Months |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
18-20kg per hectare for oversowing |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- Rapid establishment: Excellent for quickly producing feed after sowing or renovation.
- High feed quality: Italian ryegrass type delivers good palatability and digestibility.
- Strong early and mid-season production: Suitable for pastoral systems needing early feed.
- Short-to-medium term use: Designed to perform in feed-gap scenarios or as a crop pasture component.
- Flexible grazing or silage use: Works well for both stock grazing and conservation (silage/hay) when managed.
Tabu+ is a high-performing, diploid Italian ryegrass selected for its rapid establishment, strong cool-season growth and excellent palatability. It is especially effective as a short-rotation feed crop, an undersow into run-out pasture or as a winter-spring feed boost in pastoral systems. Tabu+ combines fast growth with high dry matter production in cooler months, making it a solid choice when you need early feed and high-utilisation forage.
Product Specs
| Persistence | Up to 24 Months |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate |
25-30kg per hectare |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- Delivers high-quality feed early, ideal for winter or early spring grazing/cutting cycles.
- Bridges feed gaps and gives reliable bulk when needed most.
- Maximises utilisation by animals due to high palatability and rapid growth.
- Flexible pasture management option: usable either for fast turnaround or short-term pasture performance.
- Provides value in undersowing situations - rejuvenates older pasture with a performance boost
LONG-LASTING PERENNIAL RYEGRASS & CLOVER MIX
The Saxon Performance Mix is a high-output, multi-component pasture blend designed to deliver exceptional persistence, resilience, and feed quality across diverse New Zealand farming systems. Dominated by Saxon Perennial Ryegrass (72%), this mix provides outstanding longevity and regrowth potential, complemented by Italian ryegrasses, high-sugar components, and white clovers for enhanced palatability and nutritional value.
This blend supports strong seasonal performance, from rapid establishment through winter and spring to high-quality summer feed, with optional additions of Chicory and Plantain to boost mineral uptake and animal health.
This Mix contains: Saxon Perennial Ryegrass 72% / Rocket Grass Diploid Italian 10% /
Optional: Chicory 6% (extra $1.50/kg) / Plantain 3% (extra $0.45/kg)
Product Specs
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 27 - 32 kg per hectare |
| Best used for | Grazing / Oversowing |
Key benefits
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Persistence: Performs year after year under both rotational and set-stocking systems.
- High Feed Quality: Combines energy-rich grasses and protein-dense clovers for improved liveweight gain and milk production.
- Soil Health & Fertility: High clover inclusion boosts nitrogen fixation, reducing the need for synthetic fertiliser inputs.
- Strong Sward Structure: Dense tillering and deep roots enhance resilience under heavy grazing and variable conditions.
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.
Product Specs
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Low Endophyte |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- 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.
BULK WINTER FEED
The Oat & Italian Silage Mix is an ideal bulk feed crop for silage and winter strip grazing. Combining the fast-growing Maxum Oats with Fascinate Annual Italian Ryegrass, this mix delivers excellent yield, versatility, and feed quality through the cooler months.
If wanting a multi-graze option, we can do a more grass-dominant mix - Fascinate 60%/ Maxum oats 40% - with a sowing rate of 50kg per hectare. Please ask one of our friendly team about this option.
This Mix contains: Maxum Oats 80% / Fascinate Annual Italian Ryegrass 20%
Sowing Rate: 100kg per hectare
Key benefits
- Reliable Winter Feed Supply: Excellent option for maintaining animal condition through winter.
- Dual Purpose: Can be used for both grazing and silage depending on seasonal needs.
- Good Regrowth Potential: The ryegrass component provides extended grazing after the oat phase.
- Cost-Effective: Offers a practical, high-yielding feed source with strong returns on investment.
- Suitable for All Livestock: Well-balanced feed for dairy, beef, or sheep systems.
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
Product Specs
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | NEA, NEA12, Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- 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.
Mohaka is a tetraploid hybrid ryegrass bred for New Zealand finishing, run-off, undersowing and supplementary pasture applications. It combines the vigour of Italian genetics with the persistence of perennial ryegrass, offering strong early growth, good winter and spring feed..
Product Specs
| Persistence | 2-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | AR1, AR128 |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- Provides high-quality feed early in the season and maintains production through into autumn.
- Ideal for 2-4 year pasture rotations or finishing runs where fast and dense feed is needed.
- Better persistence than standard Italian ryegrasses, reducing the need for very frequent re-sowing.
- Strong option for dairy, sheep or beef systems needing dependable feed with good animal uptake.
- With AR37 endophyte, offers improved resistance to key pests and improved sward longevity.
DIVERSITY THAT DELIVERS
Diverse Grass Base: Includes a range of proven perennial ryegrasses and high-producing Italian ryegrasses (Saxon, Fascinate, Matrix, Foxtrot) for consistent year-round performance.
Comprehensive Legume Component: Features a broad spectrum of clovers (White, Red, Persian, Sub, Balansa) and other legumes (Lotus, Burr Medics) to enhance nitrogen fixation and feed quality.
Nutritive Herb Blend: Contains chicory, plantain, parsley, tansy, sorrel, and salad burnet, promoting animal health and mineral uptake.
Adapted for Variable Conditions: Mix includes species like Cocksfoot and Timothy for persistence and tolerance under dry or challenging conditions.
This Mix contains: Saxon Perennial Ryegrass 34% / Matrix Perennial Ryegrass / 9% Cantina Perennial ryegrass / Crown Royal cocksfoot 6% / Timothy 3% / Fascinate tetraploid Italian 9% / BAP annual clovers 7% / Pinnacle white clover 6% / Paeroa red clover 4% / Sargent chicory 4% / Burr Medics & Lotus 4% / Drover Plantain 3% / health herbs 2%
Product Specs
| Persistence | 4+ Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 28 kg per hectare |
| Best used for | Grazing |
Key benefits
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Extended Seasonal Growth: The mix provides valuable feed on the shoulders of the season, maintaining productivity when single-species pastures slow down.
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Improved Animal Nutrition: The variety of grasses, clovers, and herbs ensures a nutritionally balanced diet, enhancing animal performance and palatability.
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Enhanced Soil Health: Different root structures draw nutrients from various soil depths, improving nutrient cycling and soil resilience.
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Sustainable Production: Legumes naturally fix nitrogen, reducing the need for synthetic fertiliser inputs.
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Resilience and Reliability: The wide species range ensures greater persistence through variable weather, pests, and grazing pressures.
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.
Product Specs
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- 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.
THE QUICK FIX MIX
The Pasture Recovery Mix is specially formulated to restore and rejuvenate damaged or depleted paddocks following drought, flooding, grass grub, or livestock pugging. With a fast-establishing ryegrass base and high-quality clover content, this mix delivers quick ground cover, strong regrowth, and sustained pasture improvement.
This Mix contains: Rocket Grass Diploid Italian 45% / Saxon Perennial Ryegrass 30% / Cantina Tetraploid Perennial Ryegrass 17% / Pinnacle White Clover 8%
Product Specs
| Persistence | 3 - 5 years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 17-22 kg per hectare for oversowing / 27-32 kg per hectare for sowing down new pastures |
| Best used for | Stitching In, Oversowing |
Key benefits
- Rapid Pasture Renewal: Quickly re-establishes feed after weather damage or pest impact.
- High Feed Production: Produces bulk feed within a short timeframe for livestock recovery.
- Long-Term Persistence: The Saxon base provides strength and endurance for future seasons.
- Easy Management: Suitable for oversowing, drilling, or full re-sowing depending on pasture condition
Winfred Rape is a highly versatile, fast-establishing leafy forage brassica bred in New Zealand from a cross between kale and turnip. It provides exceptional feed quality, strong regrowth, and excellent animal performance, making it one of the country’s most widely used brassicas for summer, autumn, and early winter feed.
Winfred’s rapid establishment and strong resilience to heat and dry conditions make it an ideal crop for finishing lambs, beef cattle, or dairy young stock across a wide range of soil types and climates
Product Specs
| Persistence | Up to 9 months |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate |
4kg per hectare |
Key benefits
- Boosts Livestock Performance: High-energy, easily digestible forage supports rapid live weight gains and milk solids production.
- Excellent Regrowth and Utilisation: Multiple grazings possible, improving feed efficiency and profitability.
- Performs Under Stress: Proven drought and heat tolerance ensures reliability in summer dryland systems.
- ComplIments Other Forages: Works well in mixed swards with plantain, chicory, or Italian ryegrass.
- Easy to Manage: Establishes quickly and suits both intensive and extensive grazing systems.
- Fast Establishment: Produces grazeable feed within 8–10 weeks of sowing.
RESILENT REGENERATIVE LONG LASTING SEED MIX
The Agrisea Mix is a diverse, multi-species seed blend designed to promote a balanced, resilient, and long-lasting pasture system. Developed to go beyond traditional ryegrass and clover mixes, this blend supports soil health, persistence, and feed diversity, even under challenging climatic conditions.
Comes with an Agrisea seed treatment coating.
This Mix contains: Saxon Diploid Perennial Ryegrass 24% / Matrix Diploid Perennial Ryegrass 10% / Matua Prairie Grass 8% / Hilary Fescue 8% / Crown Royal Cocksfoot 8% / Rocket Italian Ryegrass 4% / Timothy 3% / TriBlend White Clover 9% / TriBlend Red Clover 9% / Persian Clover 6% / Medics 3% / Sargent Chicory 4% / Drover Plantain 4%
Product Specs
| Persistence | 5 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 25-28kg per hectare / 15kgper hectare into existing pasture |
| Best used for | Grazing |
Key benefits
- Improved Soil Health: Deep-rooted species like chicory, plantain, and fescue enhance soil structure and water retention.
- High Feed Diversity: A variety of species ensures consistent feed supply and better animal nutrition throughout the year.
- Climate Adaptability: Builds long-term resilience to drought and other adverse weather events.
- Natural Fertility Boost: Legumes provide natural nitrogen fixation, reducing fertiliser needs.
Moata is an older but still widely used tetraploid Italian ryegrass in New Zealand. It establishes quickly, delivers high winter and spring growth, and offers excellent palatability. It is particularly suited for grazing or baleage systems and performs well across a range of soil and climatic conditions.
Product Specs
| Persistence | Up to 24 Months |
|---|---|
| endophyte | Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- Enables fast feed production for grazing or baleage, ideal to bridge feed gaps.
- Delayed heading date means a longer period of high-quality leafy feed compared to earlier heading varieties.
- Strong palatability and intake support animal performance.
- Flexible use: suitable for beef, dairy or sheep systems in autumn sowing and early spring feed.
- Because of its adaptability, it provides a reliable option when establishing feed in variable soil or climatic conditions.
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.
Product Specs
| Persistence | 1-3 Years |
|---|---|
| endophyte | AR1, Nil |
| Sowing rate | 27-32kg per hectare |
| heading date | Late |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- 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.
Fascinate is a short-rotation, high-sugar annual Italian ryegrass developed for rapid establishment and high-yield bulk feed. It’s ideal for winter or early spring feed crops, silage or grazing. It performs well in a variety of soil types and offers excellent palatability.
Product Specs
| Persistence | Up to 9 Months |
|---|---|
| endophyte | |
| Sowing rate | 30-35kg per hectare |
| heading date | Mid |
| Best used for | Grazing, Hay, Silage |
Key benefits
- Provides a quick, high-yield feed option when you need to bridge feed gaps (winter/spring) or build feed fast.
- Supports efficient animal production: better palatability and nutritional value mean livestock can perform well.
- Flexible: usable for grazing or silage applications, and suitable as a short-term pasture or feed-crop component.
- Good value for short-term feed needs - less investment in long-term persistence, ideal for strategic sowing.
- High sugar content, converts nitrates to sugars faster than other annuals
HIGH-PERFORMING RYE AND CLOVER PASTURE MIX
The Rye Clover Pasture Mix is one of the best-performing and most versatile rye-clover combinations on the market. Featuring a guaranteed 20% Saxon Perennial Ryegrass, this mix provides a strong, balanced base for both short- and long-term pasture systems. It’s designed to deliver dependable growth, high feed value, and a solid permanent pasture foundation.
This Mix contains: Perennial Ryegrass (mixed varieties) 50% / Saxon Perennial Ryegrass 20% / Italian Ryegrasses 20% / White Clovers
Product Specs
| Persistence | 3-5 Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 27 - 32 kg per hectare |
| Best used for | Grazing / Oversowing |
Key benefits
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Reliable Feed Supply: Produces consistent, high-quality feed through the main growing seasons.
- Excellent Pasture Persistence: The Saxon component adds strength and durability under frequent grazing.
- Quick to Establish: Ideal for pasture renovation or creating a strong base in new sowings.
- All-Round Versatility: Suitable for most regions and farming systems in New Zealand.
MOST POPULAR DAIRY MIX
Balanced Grass & Clover Base: Carefully blended to provide both feed volume and long-term pasture resilience.
High Clover Content: A strong 20% clover base enhances protein levels and promotes natural nitrogen fixation, improving soil fertility.
Hardy Perennial Component: Includes Matrix, a durable perennial ryegrass known for persistence and reliability across seasons.
Optional Additions: Choose to include Chicory (6%) or Plantain (3%) for added mineral content and improved animal health.
This Mix contains: Saxon Perennial Ryegrass 40% / Matrix Diploid Perennial 15% / Stamina Perennial Ryegrass 15% / Rocket Grass Diploid Italian 10% / Paeroa Red Clover 8%/ Pinnacle White Clover 6% / Hardy White Clover 6% / OPTIONAL: Chicory 6% (extra $1.50/kg) / or Plantain 3% (extra 45c/kg)
Product Specs
| Persistence | 5+ Years |
|---|---|
| Sowing rate | 27 - 32 kg per hectare |
| Best used for | Grazing |
Key benefits
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Rocket grass helps with winter growth
- Long-Lasting Feed Supply: Designed for longevity and consistent productivity across grazing seasons.
- Natural Fertility Boost: Clover-driven nitrogen fixation reduces fertiliser dependency and enhances soil structure.
- High Feed Quality: Produces dense, protein-rich pasture with good sugar levels for optimal animal condition.
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We are a family-based business that lives and breathes farming. In 1937, we purchased our first family property for growing seed crops in North Canterbury. Four generations and 86 years later in 2023, we are still immersed in the industry.
We are a family-based business that lives and breathes farming. In 1937, we purchased our first family property for growing seed crops in North Canterbury. Four generations and 86 years later in 2023, we are still immersed in the industry.
