Chico Chicory
A high-yielding, leafy chicory producing high-quality summer forage with good drought tolerance. Perfect for all livestock types, Chico offers high metabolisable energy and minerals.
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Why use
Chico can be used as a specialist and flexible multi-graze summer forage crop for finishing stock, and maximizing milk production, or included as a component of pasture mixes at a Sowing Rate - of 1-2kg/ha. It is suited for use with all livestock types, and for use throughout the country, but particularly in summer-dry regions as a summer-safe forage. An ideal, more flexible alternative to summer brassicas. As a specialist summer forage, it should be rotationally grazed.
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Benefits/Agronomic information
- Very high quality, high yielding summer forage crop.
- High in metabolisable energy and minerals.
- Very high livestock performance potential.
- Ideal for summer-dry environments.
- Fast establishing and rapid re-growth.
- Leafy, succulent and palatable.
- Animal safe - will not cause grass staggers or facial eczema.
- Can persist for up to 2-3 years.
- Deep root system enabling it to mine soil water and minerals.
- Persistence - 2 - 3 years
- Summer activity - very good
- Sowing Rate - 6 - kg/ha
- Growth pea - Spring - Autumn
- Sowing dept- 1 cm
- Stock performance potential (1=low 9=high) 9
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Why use
Chico can be used as a specialist and flexible multi-graze summer forage crop for finishing stock, and maximizing milk production, or included as a component of pasture mixes at a Sowing Rate - of 1-2kg/ha. It is suited for use with all livestock types, and for use throughout the country, but particularly in summer-dry regions as a summer-safe forage. An ideal, more flexible alternative to summer brassicas. As a specialist summer forage, it should be rotationally grazed.
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Benefits/Agronomic information
- Very high quality, high yielding summer forage crop.
- High in metabolisable energy and minerals.
- Very high livestock performance potential.
- Ideal for summer-dry environments.
- Fast establishing and rapid re-growth.
- Leafy, succulent and palatable.
- Animal safe - will not cause grass staggers or facial eczema.
- Can persist for up to 2-3 years.
- Deep root system enabling it to mine soil water and minerals.
- Persistence - 2 - 3 years
- Summer activity - very good
- Sowing Rate - 6 - kg/ha
- Growth pea - Spring - Autumn
- Sowing dept- 1 cm
- Stock performance potential (1=low 9=high) 9