Asteroid Italian Ryegrass

Asteroid is a unique Australian bred ryegrass variety designed to improve winter herbage yield and maintain long season production

• Bred and grown in Australia
  Designed for local conditions with a unique cross of 50% annual and 50% Italian ryegrass, giving it the best characterises of the two species
• Asteroid has the winter production of an annual with the later production of an Italian ryegrass
• Selected for increased nutrient efficiency to allow better growth under lower soil fertility
• It has the earliest heading date of the current Italian ryegrasses available on the market. This means it has excellent late winter/early spring growth before the season becomes too hot or dry in spring
• The Italian ryegrass background improves its recovery after heavy grazing
• Selected for faster emergence vigour to help with early sowing in unreliable autumn breaks

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