• Subscribe
  • Contact
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  •  
  • Home
  • Contact
  • Enterprise
    • Sheep
    • Beef Cattle
    • Dairy Cattle
    • Horse
    • Hay & Silage
    • Viti & Horti
  • Seeds
    • Lucerne
    • Clover
    • Medic
    • Ryegrass
    • Grasses
    • Sub Tropical Grasses
    • Forage Cereals
    • Brassica & Herbs
    • Vetch
    • Spring Options
    • Cropping
    • Turf
  • SOWsmart® Blends
    • SOWsmart® Autumn
    • SOWsmart® Spring
    • SOWsmart® Viti / Horti
    • SOWsmart® Sub Tropical Blends
    • SOWsmart® Equine Blends
  • R&D
  • About
    • Blog
    • Establishment Guarantee
    • Goldstrike Seed Treatment
    • Farmer Feedback
    • Publications
    • Pasture Info
    • Distribution
    • Production
  • International
  • Sell Your Seed
  • Seed Sowing Chart
  • Facebook
  • Instagram
  • YouTube
  • Pinterest
  • Twitter
  • Linkedin

Pasture Genetics

Pastures for the Australian Farmer TM

  • Enterprise
    • Sheep
    • Beef Cattle
    • Dairy Cattle
    • Horse
    • Hay & Silage
    • Viti & Horti
  • Seeds
    • Lucerne
    • Clover
    • Medic
    • Ryegrass
    • Grasses
    • Sub Tropical Grasses
    • Forage Cereals
    • Brassica & Herbs
    • Vetch
    • Spring Options
    • Cropping
    • Turf
  • SOWsmart® Blends
    • SOWsmart® Autumn
    • SOWsmart® Spring
    • SOWsmart® Viti / Horti
    • SOWsmart® Sub Tropical Blends
    • SOWsmart® Equine Blends
  • International
  • R&D
  • About
    • Blog
    • Establishment Guarantee
    • Goldstrike Seed Treatment
    • Farmer Feedback
    • Publications
    • Pasture Info
    • Sell Your Seed

Peter Wood

April 4, 2016 By

Peter Wood from Lockyer Valley
Product Used: L56 Lucerne Semi-Winter Dormant

The high quality of hay produced over a range of seasons and conditions has made L56 the lucerne of choice for Peter Wood at Laidley, in the Lockyer Valley of south-east Queensland.

Mr Wood said he had grown L56 for the past 10 years and has been pleased with the quality of hay over the many seasons.

“Hay quality is one of the main reasons we grow it,” he said.  “It doesn’t seem to get stalky and it tends to hang onto its bottom leaf.  We’ve found it as good as any and we’ve stuck with it.  There’s no reason to change.”

Lucerne is harvested into small square bales and sold to the horse industry.

“The horse people love it,” Mr Wood said.  “It has nice fine leafy hay.  That tends to be what they are looking for.”

Generally lucerne is sown at just over 30 kilograms per hectare in the winter time and they are able to take their first cut off in spring.

The establishment phase is vitally important to ensure maximum production in the years to follow and care is taken to prepare the seed bed and ensure adequate irrigation.

L56 provides three years of excellent production before the area is rotated through to barley or forage sorghum for a number of seasons and then put back into lucerne.

Mr Wood said he could get up to nine cuts of hay throughout the year and the winter activity of L56 allowed them to produce forage in the cooler months.

He said they would cut hay every four weeks in the summer and every six weeks in the winter time.

“In the summer we can get 50 to 60 bales per acre and then it drops down to 20 or 30 bales per acre in the winter,” he said.

The time between cutting and baling is three to four days in the warmer months and about a week as the temperatures drop.

Over many seasons L56 has demonstrated an excellent ability to adapt to the varied weather conditions and held on well under some extreme heat in February of 2016.

Mr Wood said L56 showed excellent pest and disease resistance and they hadn’t had any trouble with the lucerne in that regard.

The lucerne is often situated in a number of paddocks across the farm and mowed at different times to reduce work load and risk.

 

Photo

Peter Wood, of Laidley, QLD, in L56 lucerne which has consistently produced high quality hay across many seasons.

test

Related Feedbacks

Michael Lyons
Paul McCulloch
Bill Gread
Henry Taylor
Ryan Jeffree
Sam Burril
Jeff Foran
Tom Woods
Q75 working well in legume blend
Link Davies
Scott Moore

Publications

Pasture Genetics produce many specific publications to help advise farmers on new products and certain applications for our products.
Learn More

International Sales

Pasture Genetics produce and market both proprietary and commons based products to international customers all over the world.
Learn More

Sell Your Seed

Interested in selling your seed? Pasture Genetics are interested in buying all types of pasture and cropping seed lines.
Learn More

Related Feedbacks

  • Tom Woods

Subscribe for updates

Get our latest news to your inbox.

Subscribe

Pasture Genetics Blog

On our radar right now: New products, trial results, industry updates, event information and best practice advice – all right here.
View all blog posts

Blog Categories

  • International Business
  • Local Focus
  • Media
  • News
  • Research and Development
  • Rob Says
  • Video
  • ALL BLOG POSTS
Contact Subscribe
logo
  • Enterprise
  • Seeds
  • SOWsmart® Blends
  • International
  • R&D
  • About

14-16 Hakkinen Road
Wingfield SA 5013

T: +61 8 8445 1111
F: +61 8 8445 7777

seed@pasturegenetics.com

Copyright © 2021 · Pasture Genetics Privacy Policy

Website grown by FULLER

SIGN UP FOR UPDATES

Fill your details below to receive our news and promotions

  • Enter your full postal address to receive printed versions of our promotional material in the mail!


Trade enquiry? CLICK HERE for contact details