COMMON NAME | BOTANICAL NAME | CULTIVAR | TIME TO SOW | SOWING RATE | SITE PREFERENCE | UTILIZATION |
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| Oats | Avena sativa | Heros / Saia Overberg | Jan – April | 40 – 60 | All soils, preferably irrigated | Good grazing hay and silage. Cover crop for early ryegrass. Better winter production than ryegrass if sown in late autumn. |
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| Triticale | Triticosecale | | March – May | 50 | All soils, preferably irrigated | Tall growing cereal suitable for grazing and silage. |
| Barley | Hordeum vulgare | | Jan – April | 30 – 50 | All soils, preferably irrigated | As for oats. |
| Rye / Stooling Rye | Secale cereale | SSR.1 Trojan | Jan – April | 50 | All soils, preferably irrigated | Better than oats for sheep grazing, otherwise the same. |
| Vetch | Victa sp. | Hairy / Wooly pod / Grazing Hifa | Feb – March | 25 – 30 | Most soil forms | Usually sown with annual grass or cereal to improve the quality of the grazing. Unpalatable on its own. |
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| Lupins | Lupinus luteus / yellow | Aurga Baer / Juno / Kiev | Feb – April | 40 – 60 | Most soil forms | Mainly sown in winter rainfall areas for grazing conserved feed & |
| | Lutinus albus / white | Hantie / Buttercup | | | | inclusion in animal concentrates. May be used to improve poor soils |
| Serradella | Ornithopus sativus | Common pink | Feb – April | 10 – 20 | Sandy soils tolerates low fertility | Mainly sown in winter rainfall areas and may be used to improve poor soils, grazing or conserved feed. |
