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- Later maturing (90-120 days)
- Good late summer/autumn feed
- Frost tolerant
While predominantly used in a dairy situation, this crop can be used with other stock classes. Given the different maturity dates of summer turnips the following practice may help in maximising summer milk production.
Plant two-thirds of the crop area to BARKANT™ and one-third to in Green Globe turnips at the same time, in different paddocks. This provides farmers with a summer feed that can be grazed from 60 - 120 days. The early maturing BARKANT can be grazed from 60 - 90 days and the later maturing Green Globe grazed from 90 - 120 days after planting. Using this system, farmers don't have to worry about the quality of their turnip crop declining because they are trying to maintain an early maturing cultivar for too long and they don't need to worry about reduced yields by having to graze a later maturing crop too early.
These two cultivars complement each other very well and provide a better option than planting turnips with a medium maturity date.
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