A late heading variety with excellent rust resistance which maintains its quality late into the season. Good tillering ensures excellent recovery from grazing. Its upright growth habit prevents lodging during hay and silage production. Has late season maturity giving high spring yields.
Key attributes
- Improved winter production and fast establishment
- Excellent rust resistance
- Upright habit prevents lodging in hay and silage
- Late maturity gives high spring yields
- Recovers well from heavy grazing
- Suitable for all livestock types
About this variety
Achieve is a diploid Italian ryegrass developed to fix two things at once: winter production and speed of establishment. Italian ryegrasses earn their keep in the cool months, and a variety that is slow out of the ground gives away the very production it was sown for.
It carries later season maturity, which pushes high yields into spring, and good tillering that lets it recover well after grazing. Rust resistance is excellent, which matters in a species that can lose quality quickly to leaf disease in a humid spring, and the upright growth habit means the crop stands rather than lodging when it is shut up for hay or silage.
Achieve suits growers with irrigation, districts that catch summer rainfall events, or country where late spring rain can be relied on. It can be oversown into older pastures in autumn to lift winter and spring production, with the benefit carrying into the following summer, or sown as a new pasture alongside appropriate clovers. It also works as a transition crop following summer forage, in place of a perennial grass, where paddocks need remedial work before a full irrigation pasture goes in.
Managed appropriately it will produce high quality grazing and silage for up to two years, and it suits all livestock types.
Planting & grazing notes
Achieve has later season maturity for high spring yields and is ideal for grazing, silage and hay. It is suitable for all livestock types and has the ability to recover from heavy grazing. Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass will produce high quality grazing and silage and, where managed appropriately, can provide excellent high-quality pasture for up to two years.
Disease & pest resistance
Excellent Rust Resistance. It has excellent rust resistance, and its upright growth habit prevents lodging during hay and silage production.
Stand life
Up to 2 years (via oversowing / transition-crop use)
How it's sold
| Form | Pack | Status |
|---|---|---|
| Bare | 25 kg | In stock |
