Winter Pastures
Winter RainfallEnhance your winter grazing options with Agricol’s extensive range of winter pasture seeds.
Winter Pasture Seeds
Our selection of crops includes annual and perennial grasses, annual winter grains like oats and barley, tuber crops like Japanese radish, winter legumes like lucerne and lupins, and much more! Our winter pastures offer livestock farmers the versatility to meet all their winter forage needs.
Balansa Clover (Balansaklawer)
Characteristics: Combines well with medics and subterranean clover mixtures, Although there is not much growth...
Cocksfoot (Kropaargras)
Characteristics: Cocksfood is a very persistent perennial grass. It grows relatively slow in the sowing...
Tiller Radish (Ripper Radys)
Characteristics: Excellent cover crop, Nitrogen Mining & Nutrient Scavenging, GroundHog radish produces more root mass...
Oats (Hawer)
Characteristics: Forage cereal usually give good green bite in early winter and spring. Very palatable....
Prairie Grass (Reddingsgras)
Characteristics: Prairie grass (Bromus) has good drought tolerance. Prairie grass also have good winter production...
Sweet Lupins – narrow leaf (Soet Smalblaar Lupien)
Characteristics: It is an important rotational crop for soil improvement. The seed is high in...
Jap Radish (Japenese Radys)
Characteristics: It is planted because of the thickened roots The cultivar Nooitgedacht has a long...
Yellow Serradella (Geel Serradella)
Characteristics: Serradella is a prostrate to semi-erect growing annual legume plant. It has a deep,...
Berseem Clover (Berseemklawer)
Characteristics: Egyptian clover is an annual temperate clover, which needs establishing each year, It has...
Lucerne (Lusern)
Lucerne is a Perennial Summer Legume which is well adjusted to perform in almost all...
Pink Serradella (Pienk Serradella)
Characteristics: Serradella is a prostrate to semi-erect growing annual legume plant, It has a deep,...
Bitter Lupins (Bitter Lupiene)
Characteristics: Biological weed control can be done during the vegetative growing period due to high...
Rose Clover (Roosklawer)
Characteristics: Rose clover is an annual clover, which can re-establish itself. Set stocking is recommended,...
Sweet Vetch (Soetwieke)
Characteristics: Sweet vetch is a fine stemmed annual legume with an upright growth habit. Produces...
Chicory (Sigorei)
Characteristics: Deep tap rooted herb, High summer yield and quality, Choice is a perennial chicory...
Rye – Spring (Rog)
Characteristics: These cultivars are referred to as SPRING types in that they need increase in...
Arrowleaf Clover (Assegaaiklawer)
Characteristics: A good legume to use as green manure for soil improvement. Can be planted...
Biserrula
Characteristics: Very good quality forage in terms of dry matter digestibility, metabolisable energy and crude...
Kale (Boerenkool)
Characteristics: Sovereign kale is a medium-tall, late-flowering kale. It’s a better option for mid winter/early spring...
Phalaris (Kanariegras)
Characteristics: Phalaris is a deep – rooted perennial tufted grass. Very well adapted to winter...
Winter Grazing mixtures
Winter Grazing mixtures These diverse mixtures are well suited for grazing in the winter rainfall...
Subterranean Clovers (Ondergrondse Klawer)
Characteristics: Subterranean clovers are well adapted to grazing. Set stocking is normally advised. As a...
Fodder Beet (Voerbeet)
Characteristics: Fodder beet allows farmers to produce 20 – 30 tonnes DM/ha of high quality...
Red Clover (Rooiklawer)
Relish/Oregon red: Upright growing Good persistence under grazing Strong early season growth and summer. High...
Rye Stooling (Winter) (Stoelrog)
Characteristics: These cultivars are referred to as WINTER types as they need a long cold...
Strawberry Clover (Aarbeiklawer)
Characteristics:
- Deep rooted, good drought tolerance.
- Good spring and summer production.
Boyds Clover (Boyds Klawer)
Characteristics: Boyds clover is an annual clover which can re-establish itself, Good production is always...
Triticale (Korog)
Characteristics: Wintergreen feed which offers quality from May to Oct. It remains palatable until end...
Forage Rape (Voerraap)
Characteristics: Spitfire is a modern rape created by crossing rape with kale. It has high...
Plantain (Plantaan)
Characteristics: Improved supply of some trace elements to animals (Cu, Zn, Se), Positive impact on...
Italian Ryegrass (Italiaanse Raaigras)
Diploid Italian ryegrass: Asset: Late heading date, Exceptional production in the winter spring and summer,...
Grazing Vetch (Weiwieke)
Characteristics: Grazing vetch is a fine stemmed annual legume with a creeping/runner growth habit, Produces...
Westerworld Ryegrass
Tetraploid – Westerworld ryegrass Striker: Early heading date, Fast to establish, Excellent to use in...
Faba Bean (Faba Boon)
Characteristics: It is a nitrogen-fixing crop, This makes it an important rotational crop, Faba beans...
Forage Peas (Voererte)
Characteristics: Forage peas are palatable and are grown for hay and silage, Although it can...
Tall Fescue (Langswenkgras)
Please view the fescue pamphlet below: Click here for Afrikaans Click here for English Characteristics: Tall...
Purple Vetch (Perswieke)
Characteristics: Purple vetch is a fine stemmed annual legume with an upright growth habit, Produces...
Persian Clover (Persiese Klawer)
Characteristics: A good legume for grazing as a mixture with annual ryegrass for dairy cows,...
Turnip (Raap)
Characteristics: Rival: Early maturing (14 weeks), summer turnip, Excellent leaf production and leaf holding Tankard...
Birdsfoot Trefoil (Rolklawer / Geelblom Lusern)
Characteristics: A perennial legume, drought tolerant, good for grazing and hay production. Does not cause...
Crimson Clover (Inkarnaatklawer)
Characteristics: An annual clover used for grazing and hay production as well as green manuring....
Perennial Ryegrass (Meerjarige Raaigras)
Diploid Three60: Late heading date, High performance ryegrass with a high total production, High performing...
White Clover (Witklawer)
Agrimatt: High stolon density Excellent persistence Excellent autumn yields Haifa: Small to medium-leaved white clover...
Medics
Characteristics: Medics are well adapted to grazing, Set stocking is normally advised, As a result...
Forage Peas
Voererte
Forage peas are palatable and are grown for hay and silage. It has a great potential as a rotational crop in a cropping system.
Medics
Medicago truncatula, Medicago littoralis and Medicago polymorpha
Medics are well adapted to grazing, and 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.
Agriboost – Italian Ryegrass
Italiaanse Raaigras
Agriboost is a very high sugar grass with excellent feed quality, very densely tillerd and competitive cultivar that is able to cover the ground and has high grazing tolerance. Agriboost can be utilised as a new sowing option or as a tool to plant into exiting pastures.
Lucerne
Lusern
Lucerne is a Perennial Summer Legume which is well adjusted to perform in almost all areas of South Africa. Lucerne can produce high yields from 18-30 tons of dry matter per ha per season when properly irrigated and given enough fertilizer.