What is maranoa medic mixture?

1. What is the difference between clover and medic?
2. Is Buffel grass good for cattle?
3. What are annual medics?
4. What is Bambatsi seed?
5. How do you identify a medic Burr?
6. How do you control a medic Burr?
7. Why is Buffel Grass bad?
8. Can sheep eat Buffel grass?
9. How does buffelgrass harm the environment?
10. What is medic seed?
11. Is black medic bad?
12. Is black medic a legume?
13. How do you grow Bambatsi?
14. What is digit grass?
15. How do you seed Rhodes grass?

What is the difference between clover and medic?

Unlike sub clovers, which bury their seed in the soil, medics are aerial seeders and during the summer the seed pods remain on the ground surface.

Is Buffel grass good for cattle?

Buffel grass is uniquely suited to these purposes because it has high nutritional value for sheep and cattle, high tolerance to drought, an ability to withstand heavy grazing, a deep stabilising root system and responds quickly to rainfall events (Lazarides et al., 1997, Phillips, 1931).

What are annual medics?

(Medicago spp.)

This freeseeding annual legume has a creeping and prostrate growth habit but does not root from its nodes. ... Medics are adapted to a Mediterranean climate with dry summers. They survive wet summers in the subtropics because of their hard seed, but with enough softening to allow re-establishment in autumn.

What is Bambatsi seed?

Bambatsi can tolerate waterlogging, drought, frost and saline soil. It performs well on melon-hole (gilgai) soils in brigalow lands, but is unsuited to the sandy and loamy soil of lower fertility soils. Bambatsi is the common variety name of all commercial seed of what was once called Makarikari grass.

How do you identify a medic Burr?

Burr medic is low-growing, almost hairless with leaves divided into three heart shaped leaflets each 4-35 mm long. It has small clusters of 2-7, small yellow, pea-type flowers with petals that are only 3-5 mm long.

How do you control a medic Burr?

Burr medic can be controlled by regular mowing since its seed heads and flowers in mature plants mostly exist within mowing height. Hand pulling is an easy and effective treatment for burr medic weeds. Lawn Addicts can also recommend top-quality couch, kikuyu and buffalo grass weed killer for burr medic.

Why is Buffel Grass bad?

Buffel grass can form a relatively continuous flammable ground layer that can carry more-intensive fires than that experienced in native plant communities. More-intense fires can lead to loss of established trees and shrubs, young plants before they have produced seed, and fire-sensitive species.

Can sheep eat Buffel grass?

“While there's plenty of native vegetation around, sheep can do all right on buffel grass, but if that native vegetation is not there they won't. ... “We know it provides green feed for the sheep during the summer months, but it's the long-term effects we're most worried about.”

How does buffelgrass harm the environment?

Buffelgrass and other invasive grasses like red brome increase the combustible materials or fine fuels, which help carry fires through the desert. Buffelgrass stands can burn at over 1,400 degrees – almost three times hotter than fires generated by native vegetation.

What is medic seed?

MEDIC. Medics are self-regenerating, annual legumes that grow in autumn, winter and spring above 250 millimetres of rainfall. They are best suited to crop rotations on neutral to alkaline soils. Both freshly growing forage and the seed pods produced by annual medics are a high protein source.

Is black medic bad?

A little Black Medic is normal. It will fill in the bare areas during the heat of Summer. A lot of Black Medic however, typically indicates that your lawn is being mowed too short in the Spring and Summer, your grass types are not strong or healthy enough to compete with the weed or your soil is compacted.

Is black medic a legume?

Black medic, Medicago lupulina, is a common, prostrate broadleaf weed that is found throughout the US and Southern Canada. Native to Europe and temperate Asia, this member of the legume family (Fabaceae) has a few other common names including yellow trefoil, black clover and hop medic.

How do you grow Bambatsi?

Sow at a pro rata rate depending on the number of species sown in the mixture; sowing rate is unchanged when sown with legumes. Bambatsi is much slower to establish than rhodes grass or green panic. It is best sown between mid-January and mid-March to coincide with the highest probability of post-sowing rain.

What is digit grass?

Digit grass is a palatable bunch grass and has no associated livestock disorders. It has had limited commercial use in Western Australia, but is the most widely sown sub-tropical grass in northern New South Wales.

How do you seed Rhodes grass?

Sowing Tips: Sow at 10kg/ha. Optimum Sowing Time: We recommend sowing Katambora Rhodes Grass between September and March, depending on the climate, and when there is more probability of receiving consecutive rain days. Germination: Approximately 7 days depending on climate, soil preparation and conditions.