All Cover Crops

All Season Game Maize Blend

• A blend of 3 varieties of maize with differing maturity dates and plant types.
• This will produce early maturing cobs and later plant types with increased leaf area providing good cover.
• All varieties have high vigour for good early establishment to ensure sufficient plants for a good winter stand.
• The blend offers security where adverse conditions may affect establishment or growth.
• Treated with thiram (fungicide) and anthraquinone (bird-repellant).
• Packed in 50,000 seed units (1 acre).

Ambush Millet Mix

20% White Millet
80% Japanese Reed Millet

• Strong reed millet provides long season cover for flushing
• White millet will provide the feed to hold the birds in the cover
• Ideally suited for use as a wind proof belt or flushing point around maize
• Exceptionally winter hardy allowing it to be used right through the shooting season

Artichokes

The artichoke is a versatile plant in terms of soil type and geography.

• They can grow up to 6 feet tall
• Remain green until mid Autumn (or until frosted)
• Hold birds throughout the season
• Can be used for permanent cover, in inaccessible locations
• Plant similar to potatoes in ridges
  
  
  

Buckwheat

Chicory (Perennial)

• Creates tall, dense cover, bolting in its second year to create a flowering hedge.
• Good tolerance to drought, acid soils and major pests.
• Has high mineral content including zinc, potassium and copper
• Does not like very wet ground
• Sowing rate: 2kg/acre
• Pack size: 2kg/untreated

Decoy Game Mix

 1.5 kg Red Millet

1.5 kg White Millet

2.0 kg Dwarf Sorghum

3.0 kg Intermediate Sorghum

• A combination of two types of Millet and two types of Sorghum.
• Provides an excellent mixture where both cover and feed required.
• It is necessary to broadcast to achieve optimum establishment.
• Ensure treated seed is well covered by harrowing and rolling.
• Sowing rate: 8kg/acre
• Pack size: 8kg/Fungicide treated

Double Gold Game Cover Maize

Fodder Radish

• A fast growing cover crop, ideal for failed crops.
• Speed of establishment aids weed suppression.
• Ideal as a green manure crop. 
• If sown July will be ready to provide cover within 6 to 8 weeks
• Sowing rate: 2.5kg/acre
• Pack size: 5kg/untreated

Forage Rape

• Rapid establishment, medium-to-tall, palatable
• Above average dry matter yields.
• Good general disease resistance
• Sowing rate: 4kg (broadcast) / 2.5kg (direct drill) per acre
• Pack size: 5kg & 25kg / untreated

Four Ten

10.00kg Game Maize
4.00kg Dwarf Sorghum
14kg

• Dwarf Sorghum will provide added warmth and cover below maize.
• It will provide cover throughout the season and some feed.
• Both crops have similar husbandry techniques.

Holdfast Canary Grass

(Phalaris Aquatica)

• A valuable perennial nesting cover which will last up to 10 years if thinned out annually
• Will grow on poor, more exposed sites
• When established will provide 3 feet tall thick clumpy plants
• Suitable for holding, driving and a preferred crop for nesting

Jonty (Fungicide Treated)

Keeper Kale

 Keeper has a high leaf to stem ratio that stands well with good resistance to lodging and a high dry matter content ideal for autumn or winter utilisation.

• sow at 2 - 3 kilos per acre
• Rovral, Thiram, Seperit treated

Kwik Fix

1.50 kg Mustard
3.50 kg Fodder Radish
5 kg

• The best Kwik Fix crop to replace or patch failed spring game covers
• A unique combination of the fastest growing game cover species
• Fodder radish can provide 2 feet of quality cover in approximately 6 weeks (subject to weather)
• Fodder radish has the main benefit of being immune to Brassica sickness (clubroot)
• Mustard increases the cover element and prolongs the cover period
• Will not provide full season cover

Late Cover Mix

0.35 kg Mustard
3.00 kg Forage Rape
1.65 kg Stubble Turnips
5 kg

• A versatile and easy cover to establish in all areas
• A rapidly establishing and maturing mixture providing winter cover
• The best mixture to broadcast after cereals
• Will grow to a height of between 2-3 feet
• This mixture will tolerate some drought conditions

Linseed

Millgame Millet Mix

50% Red Millet
50% White Millet

• Can be grown straight or is ideal for sowing with game maize or kale
• For best results with maize, drill maize as normal, then broadcast or drill Millgame at right angles to the maize
• Combined together maize and millgame will provide a steady release of birds from a block rather than an explosion
• Millgame can provide approximately 1-2000 Kg of high protein feed per acre

Mustard - White

• Mustard is a relatively inexpensive and highly versatile cover crop.
• Can be sown alone or as a companion to other species.
• Ideal for early cover, killed off by frost will create shelter for birds.
• Popular as a green manure crop - broadcast at 10 kilos per acre.
• Cover crop sowing rate - 5kilos/acre
• Pack size - 5kg and 25kg untreated

Northern Star Game Mix

 10.0 kg Triticale

  7.0 kg Tic Beans

  1.0 kg Kale

  0.5 kg  Yellow Blossom Clover

  1.5 kg Forage Rape

• Ideal for use in colder,more exposed areas.
• Will provide cover & feed as well as being a haven for wildlife throughout season.
• Advisable to sow in wide rows to enable birds to have free access.
• Sowing rate: 20kg/acre
• Pack size: 20kg/untreated

Overdrive - Quinoa/Kale Mix

50% Quinoa
50% Keeper Kale

• Benefits from the excellent cover of kale and feeding potential of the quinoa
• This is the most universal cover and feed mixture
• The quinoa will provide high protein feed with kale keeping the birds dry
• Can be used on set aside ground

Quinoa

• Quinoa is capable of producing a plentiful amount of seed and is a popular choice of crop for holding partridge and pheasant.
• Many species of seed-eating song birds are also attracted to the crop.
• Commonly grown with Kale, the Quinoa provides cover and feed until it begins to collapse in the first frosts with the Kale providing more permanent cover.
• Sowing rate: 2kg/acre
• Pack size: 1 kilo/untreated 

Rapid Fire Game Maize

• A good hybrid selection with high germination that will provide feed and cover.
• Treated with thiram fungicide and Anthraquinone (bird repellant)
• Packed in 50,000 seed units (1 acre).

Reed Canary Grass

(Phalaris Arundenacia)

• Suitable for use in exposed northern sites with its very good frost and winter hardiness
• Strong stems and thick leaves provide reliable cover
• Similar characteristics to conventional canary grass with the added benefits

Silver Shot Game Cover Maize

Sorghum Hybrid Dwarf

• A short large leaf variety of sorghum
• Very good standing power
• Ideal cover providing a warm holding area for birds
  
  
  Pack size: 1 ACRE.

Sorghum Lush Giant

• Sorghum and Sudanese grass hybrid with atrazine tolerance
• Produces a dense cover that can grow 3 metres tall
• Lush is a late flowering variety developed to provide plenty of cover through the key winter months
• Deep roots make Lush drought resistant
• Lush sorghum works well as a shelterbelt for warmth around maize or artichokes
• Sorghum is useful for flushing as it encourages the birds to lift above the cover
  
  
  Pack size: 1 ACRE.

Sunflower - Dwarf

• A stiff stemmed, shorter hybrid variety
• An effective feed crop for southern shoots
• May be difficult to utilise by game if not swiped down
• Best results when sown as part of a game mix or with a genuine cover crop such as kale
  
  
  Pack size: 1 ACRE.

Sunflower - Tall

• Variable height, but generally tall, uncertified.
• For best utilisation of this crop it should be "swiped down" to enable game birds to reach the seeds.
• Sowing rate: 5kg/acre
• Pack size: 5kg/untreated

Sweet Clover - Yellow Blossom

• A biennial plant which can persist for several years.
• Its sweet smell and copious production of nectar is highly attractive to insects, which in turn attract game birds and wildilfe.
• Sown with Kale will help provide cover in the first year.
• Being leguminous and deep rooting it is invaluable for improving soil structure and fertility.
• Sowing rate: 2.5 kilos/acre
• Pack size: 1 kilo/untreated

Thousand Head Kale

Thousand Head is a slender stemmed variety bearing leafy foliage with very high D value and dry matter content. It has excellent winter hardiness providing forage for feeding after Christmas. Thousand Head can supply approximately 90 tonnes/ha of green forage matter.

• sow at 2 - 3 kilos per acre
• Rovral, Thiram, Seperit treated

Traditional Game Cover Mix

1.50kg Red Millet
1.75 kg White Millet
0.75 kg Sunflower
3.00 kg Game Maize
1.50 kg Buckwheat
1.00 kg Kale
0.25 kg Mustard
0.25 kg Forage Rape
10 kilos

Triticale

• A wheat/rye hybrid cereal providing good cover and feed in marginal low fertility areas where it will thrive with little input.
• Useful in situations where maize and millet are not options and where Brassica Sickness is a problem.
• Good winter hardiness and disease resistance.
• Sowing rate: 50kgs/acre
• Pack size: 25kg (treatments various)

White Millet

• Will produce a plentiful supply of small seeds for birds if grown on its own
• Often sown in conjunction with maize or kale to provide feed and flushing areas
• It is vigorous and will grow to a height of 90cm
• White millet is thicker leaved and has a higher seed production than red millet
• Ideally suited as a wind break


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