Silahay Pasture Mix™

We recommend our Silahay Pasture Mix, built for silage and hay. It combines two ryegrasses, Abundant Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass and Dargo Diploid Italian Ryegrass, with Paradana Balansa Clover and Persian clover for early vigour and high-quality spring bulk. It suits sandy to heavy soils with pH 5.0+ in 450mm+ rainfall areas. Cut mid spring for silage and late spring for hay.

For our Silahay Pasture Mix we recommend cutting in mid spring for silage and late spring for hay. Applying spring fertiliser beforehand promotes bulk growth. The mix flowers at roughly August to October, so time your cuts for good quality before plants get too mature.

Graze early and low, which is what we recommend for our Silahay Pasture Mix. Once plants are not prone to pulling, graze down to 6 - 8cm high to increase tillering and the Balansa and Persian clover components, which will add quality to the later silage or hay cut. Follow with a rotational grazing program through winter and spring.

Yes, for early production you can dry sow our Silahay Pasture Mix before the break where paddocks are clean and you are comfortable with the risk of a false break. Ideally spray out any existing pasture or persistent weeds before planting. Shallow planting of no deeper than 5-10mm. The mix needs 450mm+ rainfall and pH 5.0+.

For our Silahay Pasture Mix we recommend 15 to 25 kg/ha. Because it has near-equal diploid and tetraploid ryegrass plus uncoated clover seed, you sow more seeds per hectare than a tetraploid mix with coated clovers at the same rate. It suits 450mm+ rainfall on sandy to heavy soils with pH 5.0+.

Our Silahay Pasture Mix responds well to fertiliser and produces high yields where nutrition is right. It combines two ryegrasses, Abundant Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass and Dargo Diploid Italian Ryegrass, with Paradana Balansa Clover and Persian clover. Increased sowing rates and fertilizer, will encourage interplant competition during establishment, offering earlier grazing and higher dry matter production. Fertilise to encourage germination and establishment. We recommend applying spring fertiliser to drive bulk for silage or hay. It suits 450mm+ rainfall on a wide range of soils.

Yes. Our Silahay Pasture Mix can be grazed as well as cut for silage or hay. Once plants are not prone to pulling, graze at 6 to 8cm high to increase the clover component, then graze rotationally through winter and spring. Spring fertiliser promotes bulk growth, and we recommend cutting mid spring for silage or late spring for hay.

Silahay Pasture Mix contains Abundant Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass, Dargo Diploid Italian Ryegrass, Paradana Balansa Clover and Persian clover. The ryegrasses provide bulk and early vigour, while the clovers add winter and spring growth and quality to silage and hay. The clover seed is untreated, which increases seed numbers sown per hectare.

Both will suit the dairy farmer. Silahay Pasture Mix suits 450mm+ rainfall and is aimed at silage, hay and grazing. IH Dairy Select Mix is also a great fit for dairy farms with 550mm+ rainfall: it is formulated specifically for the dairy industry, combining Abundant Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass, Evoke Tetraploid Annual Ryegrass, Amass Tetraploid Italian Ryegrass and Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass with 20% late maturing aerial clovers, with potential for two cuts of silage, haylage or hay. Irrigation Mix with a combination of highly productive ryegrasses and white clover will also provide excellent production for dairy and livestock enterprises requiring extended seasonal production under irrigation.

Only partly. The ryegrasses in Silahay Pasture Mix are annual, although the Persian clover should provide some hard seed for the following years' regeneration, and Paradana Balansa Clover has limited regeneration if cut for late silage or hay. If regeneration is a priority, we recommend our Self Regeneration Mix, SouWest Pasture Mix, Nitro Mix or Interow mix which can also be managed for seed set.