AGF Seeds is excited to bring a forage wheat to the market. Densley tillered, awnless,
and leafy with fine stems forage wheat is an excellent alternative to forage oats and can
help round out your forage system. Excellent grazing recovery, useful leaf disease
resistance and good standability with improved lodging resistance over tall straw oats. A
mid- tall height with a semi erect growth habit.
Key Features
Region
Broad adaptation to where forage cereals are currently grown.
Plant characteristics
Mid-tall height, semi erect, densely tillered, awnless spring wheat.
Maturity
Spring wheat with slow maturity
Disease and resistances
Useful disease resistance observed for strains of rust. Contact AGF Seeds for more information
Animal Health
Treat as per other forage cereals
Key Uses
A grazing option due to its excellent grazing recovery and a hay and silage option as an awnless wheat that has demonstrated useful disease resistance, good standability and improved lodging resistance over tall-straw oats.
Grazing
Alfresco is a Spring Wheat without a vernalization requirement. If a wider
grazing window is required, Longford Winter Wheat should be considered.
Mixes
Mixes well with Vampire Ryecorn, Longford Wheat, Prodigy Ryegrass
and legumes such as Benetas Vetch.
