Gs 4 mixes with nitrogen Hungary Italian ryegrass in

[tr250]

I’ve some gs4 grass ley to go in for the first time. We have always had highly productive Italian ryegrass usually put 86kg of N on per cut. Looking at all the gs4 mixes they all have grasses that are less reliant on N and lower yielding.
my questions are can I buy straights and mix them myself and could I use higher yielding grasses alongside the legumes and herbs as I’m planning to put muck on every cut I can in the region of 12 tons/ha which according to the rb209 should be 72 ish kg of N in that.
also could we graze the herbs in the winter like we do the ryegrass now

 

[Great In Grass]

As long as the GS4 mix adheres to the recommended prescription laid down by Defra you can have any grass you desire.

It would be probably easiest to have a mix put together, it's no more money than buying your own straights & mixing.

 

[tr250]

As long as the GS4 mix adheres to the recommended prescription laid down by Defra you can have any grass you desire.

It would be probably easiest to have a mix put together, it's no more money than buying your own straights & mixing.

Kevin I was going to ring you next week. Do you have suppliers that will mix grasses to my spec? Am I being foolish expecting to get gs4 mix yielding what a ryegrass ley will? Will the muck stop the clover fixing nitrogen?

 

[Great In Grass]

I can get mostly anything mixed, we mixed large & small seeds separately for a Stewardship mixture last year so they could be sown a different depths!

Call me next week & we can discuss the other questions, it could turn into a rather large essay.