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Winfred Forage Brassica

Alan Pitcher - Skipton                                                         

We let the sheep eat the Winfred right to the ground, all we could see was a brown paddock and we thought it was buggered, but then we were surprised to see how it came back after we had a shower of rain. We have a big mob of wethers grazing it now in late May which allows some our other pastures to recover since the break. We’ve used other rapes but like how Winfred keeps coming back right though the winter.

Brendan & Katrina Boyd - Pomborneit Victoria

We rock rolled about 60 acres of our stony country last year and then sowed Winfred in September. We had one grazing in early December and another in Late January which yielded approximately 6 tonne in total. Unfortunately a fire broke out in Pomborneit in early February along with others throughout Victoria. The fire ripped through our property leaving very little in its path. The fire went through the Winfred paddocks but acted as a fire break only affecting about a third of the crop. What amazed me is the ability of Winfred to survive and regrow once we got some rain.  In April we direct drilled some annual ryegrass into the fire affected Winfred  and left the other section as a pure stand. The cows started calving on the 10^th of April and have been on the straight Winfred section since then allowing us to renovate other paddocks. Winfred has been a life saver to us at this time and we would not have survived without it.

Kym Mathew - Farm Manager - Demo Dairy - Terang Victoria.

We mainly sow Winfred early Autumn around March- April to provide high quality bulk winter feed for the cows. This allows us to extend our pasture rotations out during July and August for better pasture cover with less chance of pugging through later winter early spring. Winfred gives us 6-7 tonnes of dry matter at first grazing which we can never do with a grass pasture through late winter. We always see extra milk in the vat when they come off the Winfred. Its like rocket fuel for the cows!          

Hayden & Janine McKay - Timboon Victoria

We run a small Dairy farm near Timboon and use Winfred as part of a pasture renovation program. Two paddocks were sown in October last year after a knockdown spray and cultivation to kill bent grass which is a major problem in some of the old pastures. We have only been here for 18 months and already we can see big improvements in productivity on our improved pastures. Winfred plays a major part in the renovation process providing excellent quality feed over summer even under extremely dry conditions we experienced this year. After the second grazing in April we direct drilled an annual ryegrass into both paddocks for extra feed in the winter. We are now up to our third grazing, with the Winfred still growing strong.  

Rob & Tim Hayes - Highlands

After seeing the performance of Winfred Forage Brassica at a Stephen Pasture Seeds Summer Crop Field Day in early 2008, Rob and Tim Hayes of Tarcombe Herefords at Highlands in North East Victoria decided to try a 40 acre paddock in the spring of 2008.

We sowed on the 3^rd September and only received 36mm of rain in the months of September and October, and 86mm in November. The incredible part to it is how much feed it produced with such poor distribution of rainfall over that period. We had nine lambs to the acre on it for 49 days and they did really well. In January and February we experienced some of the hottest days on record and only received 18mm rain and the Winfred was still alive, we could grown a lot more feed if we had have been lucky and received more rain.