- New release tetraploid permanent pasture ryegrass
- High palatability and increased intake
- Bred for high dry matter production, especially in
summer and winter
- Late flowering date (21days later than Nui)
- Excellent pest and disease resistance
New long term ryegrass benchmark for milk production
and persistence.
BANQUET is a tetraploid ryegrass suitable for long term pasture.
It is derived from Grasslands Impact, and due to its tetraploid
nature, is expected to be more palatable and more clover
friendly than Impact.
BANQUET has a growth pattern similar to Grasslands Impact
(winter and summer active). Special attention was paid to
persistence during the breeding process. Late flowering date
gives improved late spring pasture quality.
What the producers say...
Robyn French, dairy producer, Rocky Cape TAS
The French family have trialled a lot of pastures - including grazing them
to simulate real life grazing situations - and they're yet to see a better
grass than Banquet. “It’s the best grass we've ever used,” Robyn said. “We’ve never had a bad
strike, it gets away really well and it’s good under irrigation.”
“I really like it, and so do the cows,” Robyn said. “It's highly palatable and
it persists well - it’s just as good as it was six years ago, in fact it’s as good
as it has ever been this year. “We also usually get about a thousand bales of silage off it each year
before the rains come. It’s late flowering characteristics are a real
advantage. It grows well all year round, providing fresh feed all the time.
We’ve used and trialled a lot of grasses over the years, but Banquet’s the
best perennial of the lot.”
Carl Hammond, Colac VIC
“I wanted grass that would persist into summer and wouldn’t go to seed
too quickly,” Carl said. “This was part of my strategy to increase milk
production per hectare and expand the milking herd.”
Carl said red-legged earth mite caused some problems with
establishment, but after a spray the Banquet “went bananas”. Wrightson
paid special attention to persistence in breeding Banquet, and Carl
believes the effort is paying dividends. “It provided exceptional feed during the dry - the rest of the farm was
brown and the Banquet was the only green paddock on the place,” he
said. “The cows love it almost as much as I do. They eat the whole lot, and
every time they’re on it their milk production comes up a litre per cow.”
John and Katrina Sykes, Ringarooma TAS
“The cows like the Banquet, it is not as brittle as most grasses,” John said. “We block graze it three nights in a row and the production goes up when
the cows go on Banquet. It has gone up by as much as one litre per cow
per day.”
“We are very happy with the Banquet and the quality of feed it produces.”
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