Annual Grazing / Cover Mix
No Till is an annual food and cover crop mix for those places where equipment cannot go.
No Till can be planted with hand tools and minimum tillage. It’s great for back in the woods; it’s easy to grow, has fast emergence, and can reseed itself.
Planting Time:
April/May or July – September
Seeding Rate:
10 pounds covers 1/2 acre
Ingredients:
Winterhawk Annual Ryegrass, Winter Rye, Triticale, Groundhog Radish, Rapeseed, Fixation Balansa Clover, Improved Crimson Clover
Notes on varieties:
– Winterhawk Annual Ryegrass – selected during several cold winters in Nebraska; the premier winter hardy annual ryegrass; exhibits excellent cold and frost tolerance, which allows Winterhawk to thrive in colder regions.
– Winter Rye – an upright, cool-season, and high-yielding fall-seeded forage; germinates in cool temperatures; extremely winterhardy; tolerant of poor soil conditions
– Triticale – a crop species resulting from a plant breeder’s cross between wheat and rye; excellent palatability, digestibility, and tonnage
– Groundhog Radish – fast growing with competitive, leafy top growth
– Rapeseed – a cool-season annual forage with quick germination and an excellent root system; adapts well to a wide range of soils
– Fixation Balansa Clover – a fall-seeded nitrogen-fixing annual legume, capable of producing 200 lbs./acre of N or more, depending on the amount of biomass present at termination; exhibits big-time fall root growth with explosive above-ground spring growth potential, depending on spring temps and length of growing time
– Improved Crimson Clover – a semi-upright legume; performs well in mixes, especially with annual ryegrass and radishes; overwintering likelihood increases with snow cover in northern climates; known for quick establishment
Questions? Please email us at hey@pilgrimseed.com
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Crimson Clover
The first picture above shows crimson clover and balansa clover in a mix with hairy vetch. The second picture shows a close-up of crimson clover. The final picture shows blooming crimson clover.
Winterhawk Annual Ryegrass
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