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 Home: > What We Sell: > Lucerne Lucerne is a perennial legume species with an extended taproot that allows the plant access to water and nutrients deep in the soil profile and which gives it superior drought tolerance in comparison to grass pastures in lower rainfall areas. Lucerne is a multi-purpose plant that can either be grazed or conserved as hay/silage for use during times of the year when pasture quality or diet protein levels are low. Lucerne has excellent stock acceptance and produces impressive yields of high quality feed. Lucerne cultivars are selected by their dormancy ratings (these are shown as numbers: 1-10) so your choice of cultivar will depend on whether you are after a winter active, semi-winter active or winter dormant lucerne (Under this system "1" is the most winter dormant and "10" is the most winter active).  Cultivars: SuperSonic Alfalfa (rating 9): SuperSonic is a New Product that is highly winter active with strong autumn and spring growth. For more information please click here. Other Cultivars: Other cultivars we sell include: Kaituna (4-5), Stamina GT6 (6), SuperSonic (9), Force 7(7), SF 714QL(7) and Force 10 (10). Lucerne Innoculation: Important Road Lucerne seed should always be inoculated with Group AL lucerne inoculant prior to planting. Superstrike Coated Lucerne comes pre-innoculated. Bare seed requires separate innoculant to be purchased. Specialty Seeds recommends the use of Alosca Granular Inoculant. Please read below for more information on Alosca Granular Inoculant. Alosca Granular Innoculant: A new granular innoculant called Alosca is now available from Specialty Seeds. Alosca allows legumes such as lucerne to be sown without the need for coating or slurry innoculating. This delivers a saving to the farmer when sowing pure stands of lucerne as sowing rates can be reduced by around 25% (coating of seed usually adds around 30% to the weight of the seed) and the innoculant is in a stable form able to withstand storage and dry sowings and gives flexiblity with storing seed before sowing. Alosca should be sown with the seed (either mixed with the seed or fertiliser at 10 kg/ha. Not all varieties are available bare, but where they are, we recommend Gaucho Treating them and sowing with Alosca Granular Innoculant. Please contact Specialty Seeds for more information on available Lucerne cultivars and Alosca Granular Inncolant.
Please contact Specialty Seeds for all your Lucerne needs.
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