Characteristics:
Rival:
- Early maturing (14 weeks), summer turnip,
- Excellent leaf production and leaf holding Tankard shaped bulb with high proportion above ground Short term, one graze, summer crop.,
- Rival is ideally used as part of a pasture renovation programme within dairy farms that have a period of dry or a loss of pasture quality through January and February,
- Time to first grazing: 12-14 weeks,
- White flesh with tinkered bulb.
Australian purple top:
- 12-14 weeks to mature,
- Summer turnip,
- Increased tolerance to drought,
- Purple top white base bulb-type turnip,
- Suggested sowing time: Sept – Jan.
New York:
- Modern version of a traditional autumn and early winter feed turnip,
- Performed well as a later-holding summer turnip,
- Summer turnips should never make up more than 5 kg DM/Day, or one third of a milking cow’s diet,
- White flesh with oval bulb.
