Request

Request is a high performance mid heading diploid perennial. Request has high yield potential, with strong autumn growth often only seen in late heading ryegrasses. Request produces strongly through the spring season, typical of mid heading ryegrasses. Request is a very leafy summer grass with low aftermath heading, returning to vegetative production early in summer. 

• Available with AR37 and AR1 novel endophytes
• Mid heading diploid perennial (0 days)
• Very low aftermath heading, returning to leaf production by summer
• Very good spring, autumn and winter production for its type

Over the last few years the entire dairy industry appears to have moved to late heading ryegrasses. This has brought with it an increase in total production associated with late spring, summer, autumn and winter yield. Late heading ryegrasses also help maintain spring pasture quality all the way up to December as they don’t seed until late November. In general, late heading ryegrasses and the improved spring quality can come at a price. This being the loss of the September and October flush capable from mid heading ryegrasses associated with their seed head development.

Key Tips

• The relative spring advantage of Request is often larger in cooler environments
• To manage pasture quality in spring Request should be intensely grazed in mid-October and be on a fast return for the next grazing round in early November
• Request is an ideal option for early silage production where it would benefit from higher sowing rates (6 kg/ha) of Relish red clover in the pastures mix