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Callide Rhodes

Rhodes grass

  • Highly palatable to cattle and tolerant of heavy grazing
  • Best Rhodes grass to persist with seasonal flooding and waterlogging
  • High nutritive value (hay and grazing)
  • Easy to establish
  • Tolerance to salinity and drought
  • Delayed flowering date
  • Low oxalate levels
Callide Rhodes DLF Seeds
Suitable For

Sowing Rate: 2-10kg/ha
Rainfall: Minimum 600mm per annum
Pasture Life: 5 years+

Responsive to Nitrogen and highly palatable

Callide Rhodes grass is an easy to establish, tall, leafy, late maturing, quality tetraploid Rhodes grass suited to subtropics and coastal regions east of the range. Compared to a diploid Rhodes grass, Callide has good palatability and broader leaves with a later flowering date that is influenced by shorter day lengths (<12hrs) with some plants flowering intermittingly. Given the chance to recover, Callide Rhodes will handle a heavy grazing. 

Callide Rhodes adapts to well structured clay loam soil in saline conditions but is not suited to heavy clay soil. Highly responsive to P and N, Callide Rhodes will maintain its leafy quality and strong production with access to good nutrition. 

Pasture seed sowing rate (sole): 5-10kg/ha
Pasture seed sowing rate (mixed): 2-4kg/ha

Rainfall

Minimum 600mm rainfall per annum unless irrigated

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