Brassica Options
Why sow brassicas?
Brassicas provide a bulk amount of high quality feed to maximise growth rates and increase the number of stock finished or maintained per hectare.A brassica crop provides a break from pasture, decreasing pest levels, eliminating weed problems and with fertiliser helps correct soil fertility problems, resulting in cleaner, higher producing pasture.
Using brassicas helps avoid internal parasites and pathogens that cause animal health problems, such as facial eczema and ryegrass staggers. Brassica crops can increase stock productivity and therefore increase farm profitability.
When to use brassicas
- During periods of feed shortagethrough the summer, autumn and winter
- To supplement periods of low pasture quality
- To finish stock
- When a summer-safe feed is required
- Prior to pasture renewal
Only Cleancrop™ combines the power of broad-spectrum herbicide Telar® and plants bred to resist it.
Telar® takes care of 23 hard-to-control weeds at the time of sowing, freeing up moisture and nutrients to give your crop the best chance of maximising performance and delivering superior returns on your seed investment.
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Pallaton Raphno® is a hybrid between Kale and Radish which has brought a number of impressive agronomic attributes into one cultivar, including high forage yield from multiple grazings, drought tolerance, clubroot tolerance and improved tolerance to a range of key insects.
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Kale
Kale is generally a spring sown, single graze option providing late autumn/winter feed from May to August. It can also be spring sown for a late-summer protein source to bolster feed supply when pasture quality is low.
Selecting a kale cultivar is a balance between dry matter (DM) yield and forage quality determined by leaf percentage and stem softness. Giant (tall) kale types provide bulk feed but lower forage quality and crop utilisation, while short types provide a lower DM yield and higher forage quality. Intermediate types offer a balance between DM yield and feed quality.
Corsa
A new generation, high yielding giant kale. Corsa will deliver a high volume, high quality feed for your animals.
- 17,000
Gruner
A high yielding, giant type kale with excellent winter hardiness and good Aphid tolerance. Gruner kale is an ideal option when dry matter yield is your priority.
- 17,000
Kestrel
A short height kale with high leaf percentage and soft, digestible stems that deliver an energy-dense, easy-to-graze feed. The ideal feed option when animal performance is your focus.
- 14,000
Regal
A high yielding, intermediate height kale with soft stems providing excellent crop utilisation. Choose Regal® when your winter priority is for both yield and forage quality.
- 16,000
Swede
Swedes are a spring sown, single graze option providing winter feed suited to cool, moist environments. Swedes can be divided into two categories: soft bulbed, early maturing cultivars (e.g. Major Plus) or later maturing types (e.g. Clutha Gold or Cleancrop™ Hawkestone).
Swedes are more susceptible to diseases including clubroot and dry rot, so should only be considered as a first year cropping option.
Clutha Gold
A yellow-fleshed, high-yielding main crop swede with medium maturity that has been developed to supersede Aparima Gold swede.
- 18,000
Earnslaw
Earnslaw is a traditional, yellow-fleshed swede superseding the current softest swede in the market, Major Plus.
- 18,000
Major Plus
Major Plus is a traditional yellow-fleshed swede with a early maturity date and soft bulb easily consumed by animals.
- 16,000
Forage rape
A summer/autumn/winter feed option suitable for all stock classes. Modern New Zealand bred cultivars are an interspecies cross between rape and kale parentage. Forage rape cultivars range in maturity dates from 70 to 110 days after sowing, while also having single or multi-graze options.
Goliath
Goliath® is a versatile, multi-graze rape that fits all farm systems. It performs strongly from spring/summer/autumn sowing, offering flexibility to deliver feed when you need it.
Titan
Titan® combines early maturity, high dry matter yields and excellent palatability to deliver a high quality summer/autumn/winter feed option. An ideal feed option when dry matter yield and rapid acceptance by stock is important to you.
Turnip
Bulb turnips offer an ideal summer feed for milk production or young stock (e.g. Barkant® or Cleancrop™ Toto turnip) or a summer/autumn/winter feed for stock (e.g. Green Globe or Cleancrop™ bulb turnip ).
While leafy turnip cultivars (e.g. Pasja II forage brassica and Cleancrop™ leafy turnip) are a multi-graze option that can offer up to four summer grazings. Early maturing with the first grazing possible from 42 to 70 days after sowing. Less requirement for ripening than rapes.
Barkant
Barkant® bulb turnip is the highest yielding summer bulb turnip available in New Zealand. A high quality feed with a high metabolisable energy (ME) value to achieve greater animal performance.
- 15,000
Green Globe
A multi-purpose turnip suitable as a summer, autumn and winter feed option. Green Globe turnip is the reliable turnip that delivers good dry matter yields for grazing animals.
- 12,000
Pasja II
Fast-establishing, high quality feed with the first grazing possible at 42-70 days after sowing.
- 9,000
Why choose PGG Wrightson Seeds brassicas?
- We are New Zealand’s market leading supplier of brassica seed
- Our joint forage brassica breeding programme (Forage Innovations Ltd) combines our expertise with Plant and Food Research (NZ)
- The result is a range of class-leading brassicas
We are committed to providing forage crop seed that not only produces high quantities of feed, but also leads to improved animal performance through feed quality, thereby providing positive benefits to the New Zealand farmer.
Pasture and Brassica Guide 2025/26
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Brassica management
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Cleancrop™ Brassica System
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