Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass

We recommend Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass, which can be oversown into older pastures in autumn and produces high-quality pasture for up to two years. It establishes quickly and gives improved winter production. It suits WA farms with irrigation or summer and late-spring rainfall, on sandy to heavy soils.

Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass has an upright growth habit that prevents lodging, making it well suited to hay and silage. Its later-season maturity gives high spring yields and keeps quality late into the season. Close the paddock up after winter grazing and cut at the right stage for quality.

Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass works well as a transition crop, giving productive grazing for up to two years while you prepare for a longer-term pasture. It establishes quickly, lifts winter production and has excellent rust resistance. Sow it at 20-25 kg/ha with appropriate clovers.

Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass suits WA farms with irrigation or summer and late-spring rainfall, where its extended late-spring production can be fully used. It tolerates mildly acidic soils and waterlogging, is rated for 450mm+ rainfall and suits all livestock types. Our Irrigation Mix is another option for irrigated blocks.

For Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass we recommend 20-25 kg/ha, sown shallow into a firm, moist seedbed. As a diploid it has smaller seed than tetraploid Italian ryegrasses, so rates are lower. Sow it with appropriate clovers, and apply fertiliser at sowing based on a soil test.

Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass has good tillering, which ensures excellent recovery after grazing. Graze rotationally, leave enough leaf for fast regrowth, and avoid grazing plants into the ground. Its later maturity also means it holds feed quality well into late spring for all classes of livestock.

We suggest sowing Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass with a clover suited to your conditions, such as Haifa White Clover under irrigation or a persistent sub clover on dryland. The clover supplies nitrogen and protein, while Achieve provides winter and spring bulk. Our Red Clover is another option where summer moisture is available.

Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass combines excellent rust resistance with tolerance of mild soil acidity and waterlogging, so it suits these tougher paddocks. It performs best at a pH of 5 or above on sandy to heavy soils. Lime strongly acidic ground before sowing for the best establishment.

Where managed appropriately, Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass can provide excellent high-quality pasture for up to two years. It is best suited to WA farms with irrigation, summer rainfall events or late spring rain. It can also be oversown into older pastures in autumn to boost winter and spring production, with benefits extending into the following summer.

Both are Italian ryegrasses that can last up to two years. Achieve Diploid Italian Ryegrass is a diploid sown at 20-25 kg/ha, rated for 450mm+ rainfall, with an upright, lodging-resistant habit. Amass Tetraploid Italian Ryegrass is a tetraploid suited to 600mm+ rainfall or irrigation and is ideal for undersowing dairy pastures. Your rainfall and water supply usually decide.