All SFI Seed Mixes

Use this mixture for CAHL3 (2024) and AHL3 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive and AB3 Countryside Stewardship (Grassy Field Corners), to provide nesting and foraging habitats for, insects, bumblebees, small mammals and farmland birds.

• Dense cover providing warm and dry areas for invertebrates and pollinators
• Use for static implementation of CAHL3 and AHL3 Grassy Field Corners
• Sow in spring or autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL3 CAHL4 CIGL3 AHW3 AHL3 AHL4 IGL3 
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB3 SW1 SW2 SW3 SW4 
• Contains: 60% Strong Creeping Red Fescue, 20% Tall Fescue, 10% Hard Fescue, 10% Slender Creeping Red Fescue
• Sowing rate: 20kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

Use this 1 year mixture for CAHL2 (2024) and AHL2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and AB9 Countryside Stewardship (Winter Bird Food) to provide food and shelter for farmland birds, especially Finches and Corn Buntings, during autumn and winter.

• Farmland birds eat the seeds from October and beneficial insects including bees and butterflies use the flowers during the summer
• Sow in spring or early summer for optimum establishment
• Re-sow in each year of your agreement
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL2 AHL2
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB9
• Contains: 50% Spring Barley, 30% Spring Triticale, 7% Sunflower, 5% Red Millet, 5% White Millet, 3% Quinoa
• Sowing rate: 50kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

Use this 2 year mixture for CAHL2 (2024) and AHL2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and AB9 Countryside Stewardship (Winter Bird Food), providing grain-bearing plants for farmland birds, especially Grey Partridges, through autumn and winter for two seasons.

• Farmland birds eat the seeds from October and beneficial insects including bees and butterflies use the flowers during the summer
• Sow in spring or early summer for optimum establishment
• Re-sow every two years of your agreement
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL2 AHL2 
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB9  
• Contains: 50% Spring Barley, 30% Spring Triticale, 7% White Millet, 5% Linseed, 5% Fodder Radish, 3% Kale
• Sowing rate: 50kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

Use this mixture for CAHL2 (2024) and AHL2 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI) and AB9 Countryside Stewardship (Winter Bird Food), to provide important food resources for farmland birds, during autumn and winter.

• Farmland birds eat the seeds from October and beneficial insects including bees and butterflies use the flowers during the summer
• Sow in spring or early summer for optimum establishment - suitable for later sowings and re-sowing of failed crops, where permitted
• Re-sow in each year of your agreement
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL2 AHL2
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB9
• Contains: 35% Buckwheat, 30% Linseed, 15% White Mustard, 10% Oil Radish, 5% Brown Mustard, 5% Phacelia
• Sowing rate: 8-10kg/ha (added to c.40kg cereals) or 15-20kg/ha (as a standalone mix). Pack size: 20kg

Use this mixture for CAHL1 and AHL1 Sustainable Farming Incentive, and Countryside Stewardship AB1 (Pollen and Nectar Flower Mix), to provide food source and habitat for pollinating insects such as bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies.

• Used for static implementation of CAHL1 and AHL1 Pollen and Nectar schemes
• Sow in spring or autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL1 AHL1 
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB1
• Contains: 50% Common Vetch, 37.5% Sainfoin, 7.5% Red Clover, 3% Alsike Clover, 1% Birdsfoot Trefoil, 0.5% Oxeye Daisy, 0.5% Yarrow
• Sowing rate: 15-20kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

Use this premium mix, preferred by Natural England, for CAHL1 and AHL1 Sustainable Farming Incentive, and AB1 Countryside Stewardship (Pollen and Nectar Flower Mix), providing diverse food source and habitat for pollinating insects such as bumblebees, solitary bees, butterflies and hoverflies.

• Use for static implementation of CAHL1 and AHL1 Pollen and Nectar schemes
• Sow in spring or autumn for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL1 AHL1 
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB1
• Contains: 40% Common Vetch, 15% Alsike Clover, 12% Sainfoin, 10% Red Clover, 5% Birdsfoot Trefoil, 5% Black Medick, 5% Lucerne, 5% Yellow Blossom Clover, 1.4% Yarrow, 0.4% Common Knapweed, 0.4% Musk Mallow, 0.4% Oxeye Daisy, 0.4% Wild Carrot
• Sowing rate: 15-20kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg 

Use this mixture for CAHL1 (2024) and AHL1 (2023) Sustainable Farming Incentive, and Countryside Stewardship AB1 (Pollen and Nectar Flower Mix), to provide a food source and habitat for pollinating insects from late spring and during the summer months.

• Use for rotational implementation of CAHL1 and AHL1 Pollen and Nectar schemes
• Sow in spring for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CAHL1 AHL1 SOH2 SOH3
• Suitable for Countryside Stewardship (CSS): AB1
• Contains: 50% Vetch, 15% Linseed, 15% Buckwheat, 7.5% Crimson Clover, 7.5% Berseem Clover, 4% Phacelia, 0.5% Yarrow, 0.5% Oxeye Daisy
• Sowing rate: 15-20kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg

20% Westerwolds, 25% Hybrid Ryegrass, 25% Italian Ryegrass, 30% Early Perennial Ryegrass

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Suitable for intensive cutting regimes with high yields
• Can be used as an after maize mixture and for anaerobic digestion
• 67D approx. 6 weeks after cutting with high sugar content
• Rapid recovery after defoliation ensures reliable cuts later 
• Suitable for high Nitrogen input systems
• Sowing rate: 14 kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg 

25% Early Perennial Ryegrass, 47% Intermediate Perennial Ryegrass, 14% Late Perennial Ryegrass, 14% Timothy

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Longer term mixture of entirely diploid varieties for quality hay
• Inclusion of timothy makes the mixture more palatable
• Up to five year duration for hay and haylage
• Can be grazed out of season if required
• Sowing rate: 14kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg

Blend of three Hybrid Ryegrass varieties and 25% Red Clover

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Produces high quality yields of grass and clover throughout the season
• 75% hybrids ryegrass for excellent yields
• Quality and yield enhanced with red clover
• Good disease resistance
• Red clover will enhance the protein in the crop
• Sowing rate: 14kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg

Blend of three Italian Ryegrass varieties and two Hybrid Ryegrass varieties

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Mixture of both diploid and tetraploid varieties
• Intensive cutting mixture for up to three years
• Responsive to high fertiliser input
• Excellent forage quality for ensiling and use in anaerobic digestors
• Good regrowth after cutting
• Sowing rate: 14kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg

35% Hybrid Ryegrass, 28% Intermediate Perennial Ryegrass, 32% Late Perennial Ryegrass, 5% White Clover

• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): CIGL2 IGL2 
• Includes a blend of both diploid and tetraploid ryegrass varieties 
• Delivers yield and quality for both cutting, grazing and use in anaerobic digestors
• Combines quality grass cutting and year round performance
• Will cut or graze equally well with high annual yields
• Excellent sward density so withstands heavy traffic
• No clover option includes additional 5% late PRG
• Sowing rate: 14kg per acre. Pack size: 14kg

Use this mixture for AHW1 (2024) Sustainable Farming Incentive (Bumblebird Mix), to provide a mix of seed-bearing crops to produce small seeds for farmland birds from late autumn until late winter. The inclusion of flowering crops will also produce areas of pollen and nectar during the growing season for beneficial insects and pollinators. 

• Provides food resources and habitat for farmland birds and nectar-feeding insects, such as bumble bees, solitary bees and butterflies
• Use for static implementation of AHW1 Bumblebird Mix
• Sow in spring for optimum establishment
• Suitable for Sustainable Farming Incentive (SFI): AHW1 CAHL2 AHL2 
• Contains: 32% Spring Triticale, 32% Spring Wheat, 6% Vetch, 5% White Mustard, 5% Linseed, 3% Berseem Clover, 3% Crimson Clover, 2% Red Millet, 2% White Millet, 2% Oil Radish, 2% Gold of Pleasure, 2% Birdsfoot Trefoil, 2% Phacelia, 2% Red Clover 
• Sowing rate: 50kg/ha. Pack size: 20kg