Aber HSG 2 Later Cut
Aber HSG 2 Later Cut is a specialist silage mixture for when you’re aiming to cut a high-quality crop in mid-to-late May.
Aber HSG 2 Later Cut gives you good mid-season growth and persistence, maintaining performance throughout the season.
Silage grass seed
This straight grass mixture’s heading date in early June makes Aber HSG 2 Later Cut ideally suited for later silage cuts.
Choose the Aber HSG 2 Later Cut + AberClaret red clover variety to increase the protein content of your silage, reduce protein losses in the clamp and benefit from red clover’s nitrogen-fixing ability.
Aber HSG 2 Later Cut benefits
- Produces up to four high-quality, high-yielding silage cuts
- Optimum heading date range enables high-quality silage crop mid-to-late May
- Quality and yield maintained for at least five years
- 100% high-ranking Aber HSG perennial ryegrasses
- Works well with red clover
| kg/acre | Variety | Type | Heading date |
| 6.00 | AberGain | Perennial ryegrass (T) | 05 Jun |
| 4.00 | AberBite | Perennial ryegrass (T) | 05 Jun |
| 5.00 | AberBann | Perennial ryegrass | 07 Jun |
| 15.00 |
AberClaret Red Clover
Traditional red clovers only last two to three years in cutting leys. AberClaret Red Clover is the first of a generation of new long-term red clovers bred at Germinal Horizon Aberystwyth, where scientists have dramatically extended the life of red clover leys. AberClaret can persist for 4-5 years under cutting and is significantly more tolerant of grazing by dairy cattle.
Silage production experts
Ask a Germinal expert today if you want to know where to find Germinal’s Aber HSG 2 (Later Cut) grass seed mixture for silage.
Heading date average for Aber HSG 2 Later Cut is 6 June for central Britain.
When cutting for silage, aim to cut 5-10 days before the average heading date for optimum quality. The optimum spread of heading dates within mixtures for grazing and cutting results in better performance of the leys.
| Sowing rate | 35 kg/ha (15 kg/acre) |
| Sowing time | March/April or August/September |
| Sowing depth | 15 mm (1/2 inch) or broadcast |
| Sowing instructions | Drill into a fine tilth
Moist and warm soil conditions (minimum 5˚C) Roll before and after drilling for good soil-to-seed contact
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| Additional comments | Where red clover seed is included, sow no later than end of August
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