Barenbrug Plantain Captain Ctd Gaucho (Aut) - Per Kg

Barenbrug Captain plantain seed, sold per kg.

A winter active plantain demonstrating improved cool season growth and quality forage yield.

Captain is a winter active plantain demonstrating improved cool season growth over other plantain cultivars. The first plantain cultivar to come through the Barenbrug breeding program and was selected from Tonic, demonstrating leading forage yield and cool season growth with an upright growth habit and narrower leaf.

Key features

• Upright, narrow-leaf plantain
• Improved cool season activity over other plantain cultivars
• Leading total forage production
• High forage quality and mineral content
• Good animal acceptance
• Fibrous root system which aids in reducing N leaching

Benefits of sowing Captain

• The increased cool season production helps fill critical feed gaps for most farming systems, in temperate regions of Southern Australia
• Captain's leading forage production increases 'home grown feed' and carrying capacity and/or reduces the need for expensive supplement use
• High forage quality, such as low neutral detergent fibre (NDF) leads to quick rumen degradation resulting in high drymatter intake (DMI). This increased DMI leads into improved animal performance; liveweight gain or milk production
• The fibrous root system of plantain is shown by research to mitigate N losses in high input systems (i.e. Dairy) and therefore can be used as a mitigation tool for nitrate leaching

Application

• As a high quality herb for finishing systems
• As a clean-up crop leading into perennial pasture establishment
• In a mixed sward, where it can be used to increase feed quality and extend seasonal growth curves through the year
• As a nitrogen mitigation tool in high N systems

Sowing

Rates in grass mixes can vary between 2–8 kg/ha depending on desired composition of plantain. It is recommended that around 2–4 kg/ha is sown when mixing with ryegrass as a N mitigation tool in dairy or other high N input systems.