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Other Short Rotation Ryegrass

Listed alongside each cultivar are their Ploidy and Heading dates.
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Cultivars are positioned according to heading date.

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Description

Shogun NEA

Ploidy | Tetraploid

Endophyte types | NEA or NEA12

Heading dates | +13

Shogun establishes very fast, more like an Italian ryegrass, so these paddocks are ready to graze sooner than ones sown with perennial ryegrasses.

Persistence parentage | 3 – 5 years – Forge has 75% perennial: 25% Italian ryegrass

Frenzy NEA2

Ploidy | Tetraploid

Endophyte types | NEA2 or LE

Heading dates | +16 days

New Zealand’s highest yielding short-rotation ryegrass. Strong cool-season growth for consistent, productive grazing and early season feed supply with strong 3-year persistence in summer safe environments.

Disease resistance | Rust resistance: 9**

Persistence | 1 – 3+ years

**1 = Susceptible, 9 = resistant

 

Melcombi

Ploidy | Tetraploid

Endophyte types | NIL

Heading dates | +8

Well suited for dairy, beef, sheep, and horses.

 

Yield performance | Even yield distribution, high yield potential

Disease resistance | Melcombi has good rust resistance

Forge NEA

Ploidy | Tetraploid

Endophyte types | NEA LE

Heading dates | +13

Forge NEA will grow about 1.4t dry matter/ha a year more than a high-performance perennial ryegrass

Persistence parentage | 3 – 5 years – Forge has 75% perennial: 25% Italian ryegrass

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