All Game Cover Seed Crops
Don't hesitate to get in touch to speak to one of our experts or request a catalogue to view our full range. Ordering regularly or looking for large volumes? Click here to apply for a trade account today - we review all applications within one working day.
Display view
Browse by
All Season Game Cover Maize Blend
A blend of three varieties of maize with different maturity dates to provide effective cover and feed for the duration of the season.
- A blend of early, intermediate and late varieties.
- Varieties selected for good early vigour and standing ability.
- Treated with Redigo M (or equivalent Fungicide) and Korit (bird repellent).
- Sowing rate: 45,000 seeds per acre. Packsize: 1 acre (45,000 seeds).
Traditional Game Cover Mix
The Traditional Game Cover Mixture combines a broad range of species which will give a full season of cover and a supply of food.
- A tried and tested mixture of species that provide feed and cover
- Sunflowers provide an attractive splash of colour
- Differing seed sizes mean it is best to broadcast rather than drilled
- Game Maize (treated), White Millet, Red Millet, Buckwheat, Sorghum, Kale, Sunflower, White Mustard, Forage Rape, Gold of Pleasure, Phacelia
- Sowing Rate: 10kg per acre. Packsize: 10kg
White Millet Seed
White millet is a popular choice as it provides cover and a source of food. Particularly attractive to English and French partridges.
- Produces a plentiful supply of small seeds for birds
- Often sown in conjunction with maize or kale
- It is vigorous and will grow to a height of up to 90cm
- Thicker leaved and higher seed production than red millet
- Sowing rate: 5kg acre.
HiBird Game Cover Maize Blend
HiBird Maize blend is a mixture of early, intermediate and late varieties.
- Provides a great food source.
- Good early vigour and standing power.
- Treated with Fungicide and Korit Bird Repellent.
- Spreads timings of cob ripeness.
- Sowing rate: 50,000 seeds per acre. Packsize: 1 acre (50,000 seeds).
Thousand Head Kale Seed
Thousand Head Kale is a popular, tried and tested variety with good standing ability and winter hardiness.
- Thousand Head is a slender stemmed variety bearing leafy foliage.
- Excellent winter hardiness providing forage for feeding after Christmas.
- Can supply approximately 90 tonnes/ha of green forage matter.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Red Millet Seed
Red Millet is best sown alongside other crops to provide a source of food which will help to keep birds in the covers.
- Will produce a plentiful supply of small seeds for birds
- Often sown in conjunction with maize or kale
- Red millet is earlier maturing than white millet
- Susceptible to frost
- Sowing rate: 5kg acre.
Japanese Reed Millet Seed
Japanese Reed Millet is a stronger and hardier member of the millet family when compared to Red and White Millet.
- Stronger plant than others of the millet family
- Improved winter hardiness
- Mix with white millet to provide an excellent cover and feed crop
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre.
Ambush Millet Mix
A mix of white, red and Japanese reed millet. The white millet provides a source of food whilst the Japanese reed millet provides cover.
- The strong reed millet plant provides long season cover for flushing
- White and red millet provides feed to hold birds in the cover
- Winter hardy allowing it to be used through the shooting season
- 40% White Millet, 40% Red Millet, 20% Japanese Reed Millet
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre. Pack Size: 10kg
Oil Radish Seed (Raphanus sativus)
Fodder Radish is a quick growing cover crop which scavenges nitrogen, produces large amount of organic matter and improves soil structure.
- Quick growing, produces high organic matter in short periods
- Suppresses weeds and deep roots benefit soil structure
- Ideal as a green manure crop sown in early autumn
- Effective as a standalone green cover or in mixtures
- Sowing rate: 15-25kg / ha
VITTASSO Brown Mustard Seed (Brassica juncea)
Very popular for use in potato rotations to control soil borne pests and can be incorporated into moist soil to maximise biofumigation.
- Green manure crop with biofumigant properties
- Winter-hardy, easy to establish, cost effective
- Reduces wireworm and PCN populations and their effect on potatoes
- Suppresses Verticillium wilt and Sclerotinia in potato production
- Sowing Rate: 5kg / ha
- VITTASSO Brown Mustard Brochure
Ethiopian Mustard (Brassica carinata)
Ethiopian mustard is a fast growing frost hardy, brassica which produces a dense leafy canopy and acts as an excellent weed suppressor.
- Produces a dense leafy canopy to supress weeds
- Fast and easy to establish providing rapid ground cover
- Frost hardy cover crop ideal for use in later sowings
- Can tollerate and improve poor soil conditions
- Sowing rate: 5kg / ha
Quinoa Seed
Quinoa will provide cover and a plentiful supply of seed making it a popular crop for holding partridges, pheasants and attracting seed eating song birds.
- Produces a number of seeds to provide a valuable source of food
- Also attractive to many species of seed-eating song birds
- Often grown with kale as it begins to collapse with first frosts
- Available ready blended with Kale, see Overdrive Seed Mixture
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack size: 2 kg
Bombardier Kale Seed
A new variety with the potential to deliver high dry matter yields making it and ideal choice for dairy, beef or lamb producers.
- A taller stemmed variety with excellent resistance to lodging.
- High leaf to stem ratio.
- Available untreated or treated with Start-uP & Sepiret.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Boost Late Game Cover Mixture
Fast-growing, quick to establish, and frost hardy. Ideal to sow in late summer or early autumn to provide cover that will last all winter.
- Rapid growing catch crop
- Excellent as a "rescue" mixture for patching failed crops
- Ideal for when a late sown cover crop is required
- Includes: Texsel Greens, Hybrid Brassica, Fodder Radish, Brown Mustard
- Sowing rate: 2.5 -4 kg per acre. Pack size: 10kg
Broadshot Cover Mixture
Broadshot is a mixture of selected species that contribute to feed and cover.
- An excellent mixture where both cover and feed are required
- Can be left to regenerate for a second year
- Facilitates economical weed control
- Contains: Buckwheat, Goldeneye Kale, Phacelia, White Millet, Forage Rape, Red Millet, Japanese Reed Millet, Quinoa, Yellow Blossom Clover
- Sowing rate: 6kg per acre. Pack size: 10kg.
Buckwheat Seed (Fagopyrum esculentum)
Buckwheat is a fast-growing annual crop, with a dense canopy for excellent weed suppression. Buckwheat scavenges phosphates, helping to reduce leaching.
- Rapid establishment and growth make it an ideal short-season crop
- A dense canopy works efficiently as an excellent weed suppressant
- Nectar-rich, helping boost pollinators and other beneficial insects
- Scavenges phosphates from the soil for future crops
- Sowing rate: 50kg / ha
Caledonian Kale Seed
Caledonian Kale is the first variety to be bred with resistance to club root. A taller variety which gives easier access for birds underneath the leaf canopy.
- Taller variety to allow birds to move freely under the leaf canopy.
- Club root resistant, can be sown on sites suffering from brassica sickness.
- Available untreated or treated with Start-up & Sepiret.
- Specifically bred for UK conditions. High germination and early vigour.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre.
Canary Grass - Aquatica
Canary Grass (Phalaris aquatica) gives excellent long term nesting cover for partridges and pheasants.
- A perennial species which can last for 10 years.
- Perfect for poor quality sites where annual sowing is difficult or impractical.
- Can grow to 60cm in first year and over 150cm in following years.
- Requires sowing in wide rows to prevent it from becoming to thick
- Sowing rate: 2.5 kg/acre Pack Size: 2.5kg.
Carbon Kale and Mustard Hybrid Seed
New and unique game cover crop which combines the excellent cover of kale with the easy and rapid establishment of mustard.
- Produces amazing cover in a short period of time
- Excellent frost tolerant cover by November
- Can be used for new sowing or for patching failed crops
- Best sown in June or July.
- Sowing rate: 2kg per acre. Pack size: 2kg
Dwarf Hybrid Sorghum Seed
Short stemmed, sturdy, broad-leaved and has a substantial seed head. Its shorter growing habit is ideal for exposed sites.
- Average height 1 - 1.25m.
- Very good standing power due to short growth habit.
- Ideal cover providing a warm holding area for birds.
- Sowing rate 12kg per acre.
Dwarf Sunflower Seed
Dwarf sunflowers are a shorter stemmed hybrid variety which provide better standing ability over conventional varieties.
- A stiff stemmed, shorter hybrid variety
- An effective feed crop for shoots in the southern half of the UK
- May require 'swiping' down to allow game birds to access the seeds
- Frequently sown as part of a game mix or with kale
- Sowing rate: 5kg acre. Pack size: 5kg
Forage Rye Seed (Secale cereale)
This fastest growing rye, POWERGREEN is a high yielding variety which can grow at the lower temperatures, making it ideal for late sowing or early harvests.
- Fast initial development, high tillering and high output
- Good growth in cold conditions, excellent winter hardiness
- High nitrogen uptake throughout autumn
- Sow in autumn for incorporation and use in the spring
- Sowing rate: 150kg / ha
This item is currently unavailable
Giant Sorghum Seed
Giant Sorghum is a cross between Sorghum and Sudan Grass Hybrid. It can grow over two metres tall providing excellent cover.
- Produces warm and dense cover that can grow 2-3 metres tall.
- Deep roots help it to withstand drought conditions
- Works well as a windbreak protect more vulnerable crops
- Sorghum is useful for flushing as it encourages the birds to lift above the cover
- Sowing rate: 12kg per acre.
Gold of Pleasure - Camelina Seed
A crop well suited to poorer and nutrient deficient soils. Fast maturing, free-branching plant producing seed attractive to birds.
- Useful mixture for exposed areas.
- Sow April/May for use from September onwards.
- Available mixed with Triticale, Barley and Linseed, see Partridge Mix.
- Annual specie providing cover up until Christmas.
- Sowing rate: 5kg per acre. Pack size: 5kg.