Caversham

• Fast establishing mid season diploid
• Excellent winter and spring production
• Good rust tolerance
• Particularly well suited to coastal NSW and Qld climate

Mid maturity diploid ryegrass for warm and humid coastal climates. CAVERSHAM Italian Ryegrass is a South African bred Midmar reselection that has excellent seedling vigour for a diploid cultivar. It has mid season maturity, flowering later than early Tetila types, but slightly earlier than Concord. It has been trialed extensively in Australia since 1996 and has performed exceptionally well along the coastal strip of northern NSW and Queensland. In 2002 CAVERSHAM was the highest average yielding short term ryegrass across 10 trials run by NSW Agriculture at coastal NSW sites (Casino, Wollongbar, Kempsey, Taree, Wingham, Gloucester, Scone, Singleton, Richmond and Bega). It has excellent rust tolerance needed to maintain quality feed production in that environment during spring.

MANAGEMENT TIPS

• For best results Caversham should be planted early at 20kg/ha - kikuyu should be either mulched or suppressed prior to sowing
• For winter feed, and silage or hay, it should be sown with 5kg/ha of late flowering persian clover.
• Where summer clover content is required it should be sown with Renegade red clover at 3-5kg/ha.
• It can also be sown in a mix with Winter Star tetraploid annual ryegrass