Rye

Cereal

(Secale cereale)

Cereal rye is a versatile crop being useful for green cover, grazing and producing biomass for energy production. A fast growing cereal with good low temperature growth makes it particularly useful for late sowing and/or early spring grazing.

Uses

Greencover, soil improver, early spring grazing

Sowing Rate

up to 75kgs/acre

Persistence

Annual

Sowing Period

August to September

Yield Potential

6t DM per ha.

Management

Care should be taken to select the most appropriate variety. True grazing rye varieties produce the most foliage compared with varieties better suited to cereal or biomass production.