CONSERVATION PRODUCTS
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Planting the right conservation mix can protect, preserve and give life back to depleted soils. Conservation mixtures work to conserve the land as nature intended and plowdown mixtures help to build soil quality. Greenfield MixThe ideal conservation mixture, Greenfield also works for livestock pasturing. The mixture is a combination of white clover, Feeder perennial ryegrass, Festorina tall fescue, creeping red fescue, chewings fescue, timothy and Kentucky bluegrass. The seeding rate is 20 kg/acre for buffer strips, and 40-50 kg/acre for around ponds and slope stabilization. Ideal for:
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Plowdown MixBuilds soil quality extremely well. Mixture PS 503 is a combination of double cut red clover and tetraploid annual (Italian) ryegrass. The seeding rate is 4-5 kg/acre. Mixture PS 501 is a combination of alfalfa, single cut red clover and tetraploid annual (Italian) ryegrass. This mixture can be seeded with wheat or spring cereals or used on its own where it goes to work producing biomass and the alfalfa taproots breaking through the plow layer. The red clover and ryegrasses produce abundant fibrous root mass to return to the soil. Seeding rate is 4-5 kg/acre. PS 502, a combination of double cut red clover and alfalfa, is also available.
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