Sweet Vetch (Soetwieke)

Sweet Vetch (Soetwieke)

Characteristics: Sweet vetch is a fine stemmed annual legume with an upright growth habit. Produces very good hay and does not cause bloat. Combines well with cereal crops to make good quality hay and silage.
Faba Bean (Faba Boon)

Faba Bean (Faba Boon)

Characteristics: It is a nitrogen-fixing crop, This makes it an important rotational crop, Faba beans have a high protein value and can be used in silage mixtures, It can also be used as a cover crop in vineyards, Faba beans can also handle waterlogged...
Sweet Lupins – narrow leaf (Soet Smalblaar Lupien)

Sweet Lupins – narrow leaf (Soet Smalblaar Lupien)

Characteristics: It is an important rotational crop for soil improvement. The seed is high in protein and is often used to flush feed stock. Also used as a green manure crop. Less prone to shattering.
Bitter Lupins (Bitter Lupiene)

Bitter Lupins (Bitter Lupiene)

Characteristics: Biological weed control can be done during the vegetative growing period due to high alkaloid levels in the plant, It is an important rotational crop for soil improvement, The seed is high in protein and is often used to flush feed stock, Also used as...
Forage Peas (Voererte)

Forage Peas (Voererte)

Characteristics: Forage peas are palatable and are grown for hay and silage, Although it can take low temperatures, heavy frost can reduce the formation of the pods, It has a great potential as a rotational crop in a cropping system.
Yellow Serradella (Geel Serradella)

Yellow Serradella (Geel Serradella)

Characteristics: Serradella is a prostrate to semi-erect growing annual legume plant. It has a deep, well developed root system. Yellow Serradella has a hard-coated seed, making it possible to reestablish itself naturally. Can be mixed with Pink Serradella in initial...
Biserrula

Biserrula

Characteristics: Very good quality forage in terms of dry matter digestibility, metabolisable energy and crude protein, Tolerant to heavy grazing, High seed yield and hardseededness provide seed bank for many years.
Purple Vetch (Perswieke)

Purple Vetch (Perswieke)

Characteristics: Purple vetch is a fine stemmed annual legume with an upright growth habit, Produces very good hay and does not cause bloat, Combines well with cereal crops to make good quality hay and silage, The plant is stronger and more hairy than the other...
Medics

Medics

Characteristics: Medics are well adapted to grazing, Set stocking is normally advised, As a result of the high protein content of the plant material and the dry pods which are eaten during the summer months good animal performance is obtained, Medics is also an...
Grazing Vetch (Weiwieke)

Grazing Vetch (Weiwieke)

Characteristics: Grazing vetch is a fine stemmed annual legume with a creeping/runner growth habit, Produces very good hay and does not cause bloat, Combines well with cereal crops to make good quality hay and silage.
Boyds Clover (Boyds Klawer)

Boyds Clover (Boyds Klawer)

Characteristics: Boyds clover is an annual clover which can re-establish itself, Good production is always found in wet areas alongside vlei areas and low lying fields where water logging is found, Set stocking is advised. Peak production is in spring and early...
Rose Clover (Roosklawer)

Rose Clover (Roosklawer)

Characteristics: Rose clover is an annual clover, which can re-establish itself. Set stocking is recommended, with stock just being removed while the plant is flowering to facilitate better seed production.
Crimson Clover (Inkarnaatklawer)

Crimson Clover (Inkarnaatklawer)

Characteristics: An annual clover used for grazing and hay production as well as green manuring. The seed can vary from 30 to 70% hard coated depending on the conditions during seed production. Blaza: Mid season maturity – approx 122 days to flowering, Shows...
Subterranean Clovers (Ondergrondse Klawer)

Subterranean Clovers (Ondergrondse Klawer)

Characteristics: Subterranean clovers are well adapted to grazing. Set stocking is normally advised. As a result of the high protein content of the plant material and the dry pods which are eaten during the summer months, good animal performance is obtained. It is an...
Pink Serradella (Pienk Serradella)

Pink Serradella (Pienk Serradella)

Characteristics: Serradella is a prostrate to semi-erect growing annual legume plant, It has a deep, well developed root system which can produce roots up to 1 metre in length, Pink Serradella is not hard seeded and can germinate earlier than expected, This makes it...