Firefly
kale
- High yielding, intermediate-height kale
- High leaf-to-stem ratio with very good late winter leaf percentage
- Excellent crop utilisation due to selection for soft stems
- Very good winter hardiness and excellent pest and disease tolerance
Firefly kale is a high yielding, intermediate-height kale with a high leaf-to-stem ratio. Excellent crop utilisation by animals due to single plant selection for soft stems during the plant breeding process. Firefly is the first kale cultivar available in the Cleancrop™ Brassica System bred to have a herbicide resistance trait, which allows the application of Telar® herbicide at both pre- and post-emergence for excellent weed control.
4 trials: Gore, Hinds, Kimihia and Palmerston North (2015). In these trials conventional herbicides were used on all cultivars. Telar® was not applied. Where Telar® was used for Firefly and no herbicide applied to the other cultivars, we would expect higher yields for Firefly kale.
Dairy cows grazing Cleancrop™ Firefly kale for high-quality summer feed in Cambridge.
Control weeds. Increase yield
The Cleancrop™ Brassica System is a crop and weed management solution all in one.
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. Telar® cannot be used with conventional brassicas.
Regular brassica (left). Gruner kale crop with a high weed burden of wild turnip.
Cleancrop™ brassica (right). Cleancrop™ Firefly kale with Telar® herbicide applied.
