Components:

  • Bottle brush grass (Anthephora pubescens)
  • Blue buffalo grass (Cenchrus ciliaris)
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Benefits of cover crops:

  • All of the species in the mixture are perennial sweet grasses that are highly palatable and digestible. It can be utilised as hay and standing hay.
  • Blue buffalo and Bottle brush grass are exceptionally hardy grass species that grow very well in areas with an annual rainfall of as little as 350mm in the summer rainfall regions.

Rainfall:

  • ±300mm annually

Sowing density:

  • 40kg/ha

Planting time:

  • October to February