Exceltas
Coloured Brome
fact sheet
A high yielding, long lived perennial brome with excellent late Spring/early Summer growth. Exceltas is a legume friendly grass which remains palatable even when seeding.
Strengths:
  • No known animal health issues
  • Suitable for all classes of livestock
  • High yields comparable to perennial ryegrass
  • Remains palatable even when seeding
  • Year round growth when moisture is not limiting
Pasture type and use:

Exceltas is Summer active, producing a large bulk of high protein, high energy forage all year round with a high level of digestibility and nutritive value.

A big feature is its ability to respond to Summer rain and it grows at warmer temperatures then perennial grasses.

Exceltas is best suited to a high input rotational grazing system and can be locked up for Spring for later grazing in Summer, due to its high palatability even when seeding.

Rainfall:

Adapted for sowing into all well drained soil types of moderate to high fertility, in temperate areas receiving 650mm+ average rainfall or under irrigation.

Sowing:

Seed can be drilled, direct drilled or broadcast, preferably at a depth of around 10mm but no deeper than 20mm.

Exceltas is suited to both Autumn and Spring sowing.

Best suited for sowing as the dominant grass in a mix with legumes that have high seedling vigour. It may out compete some slower establishing species.

Sowing rates:

25kg/Ha alone.

20kg/Ha in a mix.