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A group for members interested in pasture species applicable to a high winter rainfall Mediterranean environment, and seeding methods & cultural practices that lead to successful germination and establishment of perennial & biodiverse pastures.
An update on where we are at with our multispecies paddocks .. germination was excellent, didn’t seem to be any ill effects from sitting in the ground for 6 weeks prior to the break. We have just done a foliar feed across all of the paddocks using the attached recipe plus added some of our Johnson Su compost extract (2kg/ha). The whole job was…
I’ve also got a battle on my hands! I’m going to try and foliar spray one of Mark’s recipes hopefully next week and see if it slows the buggers down. Brett do you know the amounts used for molasses/milk spray?
Photo is of last years multi species(which was also attacked badly), I’m guessing there was a huge egg population laid last spring as I…
Hi Will, We have had some red legs in some of the paddocks we seeded to multi species.. in particular they were hammering the legumes & brassicas. Mark Tupman @mark suggested spraying out Magnesium Suplhate at a rate of 5 to 7kg/ha along with some molasses… our soils are quite deficient in magnesium & I think if my understanding is correct,…
Adding chitin to seed coating or in furrow feeds and breeds microorganisms capable of assimilating chitin including entomopathogenic fungi that are indigenous to your soils – in affect creating in situ IPMO. Fermented insects crustaceans and other arthropods, fish scales and fungal …
For grazing purposes a general recommendation would be to use a standard ryegrass and clover mix that had early, mid and late season varieties in it and add some other hardy, graze tolerant species into the mix for diversity.
My suggestion would be to lower the usual rate of ryegrass and clover by around 30% and add 1-2kg of a…
Anyone have some guidance or resources to share regarding percentages of species and the sub species in a multi mix pasture for seeding purposes. <div>
Ideally providing early mid and late varieties of each.
Beef Cattle
edit based in the South west Western Australia</div>
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