Forage grass 

Fodder beet
(Beta vulgaris var. crassa)

Biennial plant (1 year forming of the taproot - 2 year forming of the flower shaft) used for one year. Seeds in spring, while harvest is in summer when the roots have their characteristic colour (red or yellow).
It is recognised for its nutritional value and high palatability. Usable fresh or conserve it in silos.

Product code Variety
BFO 01  RED MAMMOUTH
BFO 02  YELLOW CILINDRICAL
BFO 03  SEMIZUCCHERINA

Smooth brome grass
(Bromus inermis)

Perennial grass, rhizomatous. Very rustic, resistant to heat and a good frost tolerance. A difficult grubber because of its rootstock. It prefers deep well drained soils of high fertility and combines well with lucern and clovers. In winter it remains green.

Product code BRO 00 

Flodder kale
(Brassica oleracea var.acephala)

 
Product code CAV 00 

Swede
(Brassica napus var.napobrassica)

Very rustic used in cold climates. Good resistant against acidity. Root is of white pulp and very nutritious.

Product code NAV 00 

Chick pea
(Cicer arietinum)

Small plant, fragile trunk. Prefers a warm climate.

Product code CEC 00 

Forage chicory
(Cichorium intybus)

Suitable for feeding the cattle, mowing the foliage and to harvest the roots.

Product code CIF 00 

Swede rape
(Brassica napus var. oleifera)

Plant with a lightly thick root. Very good resistant against cold, prefers a humid climate. You can use the grass to intercalary in autumn.

Product code COL 01 

Grass for heights
(Arrhenatherum elatius)

Specie with a grand adaptability. It can be found on the plains in the mountains. Prefers a not too hard winter and in summer humidity.

Product code EAL 00 

Cocksfoot
(Dactylis glomerata)

 
Product code EMA 00 

Lucerna / Alfalfa
(Medicago sativa)

It is valued because it gives high yields of palatable and good quality forage. The wide diffusion of the grass demonstrates the adaptability of it in any climate and all terrain. It grows remarkable fast and it also benefits the soil structure. The economic value of Lucerna is about 3 to 4 years.

Product code Variety
EME 01  ECOTYPE "DELL'ITALIA CENTRALE"
EME 02  ECOTYPE "SABINA - ROMAGNOLA"
EME 03  NATIONAL VARIETIES
EME 00  VARIETY "DERBY / SITTEL"
EME 04  VARIETY "MARAVIGLIA" (Exclusive "Sgaravatti")
EME 05  VARIETY "HUNTER RIVER"

Dolichos melanophtalmus
(Dolichos melanophtalmus)

It is very adaptable. Use the pod for feeding the cattle. Better to turn in hay, in silo or green manure. Use the grass with maize.

Product code DOL 00 

Field bean
(Vicia faba var. minor)

One year plant. The plant adapts very well in divers climates. Although it has a limited resistance against cold. Prefers a not too humid climate. As forage you can use it alone or in combination with corn or other legumineuses.

Product code FPA 01 

Meadow fescue
(Festuca pratensis)

It has a high adaptability. Very good quality for foraging. Less rustic than F. arundinacea but very good resistant against cold. Adapt at different terrain's. Non aggressive and therefore very suitable for mixing with forage grass which could replace the forage type loiessa.

Product code FES 01 

Tall fescue
(Festuca arundinacea)

It has a very deep root, very rustic and a grand adaptability. Intercropping and very aggressive. Sucker growth and abundant, resistant for heights and it produces high grass. However, the quality of the forage is inferior of the Meadow fescue.

Product code FES 02 

Timothy
(Phleum pratense)

 
Product code FLE 00 

Birdsfoot trefoil
(Lotus corniculatus)

This is a perennial specie. The birdsfoot trefoil forms a deep rooting system. It is well adapted to the more alkaline and drier soils. It is also very resistant to cold. It is mostly used in mixtures with perennial grasses.

Product code GIN 00 

Lentil
(Lens culinaris)

 
Product code LEN 01 

Italian ryegrass
(Lolium multiflorum)


product code Variety Description
LIT 00  ITALIAN RYEGRASS TETRAPLOIDE  
LIT 01  ITALIAN RYEGRASS DIPLOIDE  
LIT 02  WESTERWOLD RYEGRASS
( Lolium multiflorum west.)
 

Annual ryegrass
(Lolium rigidum)

 
Product code LOL 00 

Perennial ryegrass
(Loilium perenne)

 
Product code LOI 10 

Sainfoin
(Onobrychis viciaefolia var. sativa)

 

Product code Variety
LUP 00  IN GUSCIO A UN TAGLIO
LUP 00  IN GUSCIO A DUE TAGLI
LUP 01  SHUCKED

Lupin
(Lupinus albus e Lupinus luteus)

 
Product code Variety
LPI 01  WHITE MEDIUM SEEDS
LPI 02  WHITE BIG SEEDS
LPI 03  GREEN MANURE

Black medick
(Medicago lupulina)

It has got a beautiful taproot. Black medick is easy adaptable. Vegetation in all types of terrain. Very good to use for grazing land. Also for mixing with graminacea and legimineuses.

Product code LPL 00 

Barley
(Hordeum vulgare)

There are a lot of graminacea preferred above barley for fresh forage. Barley doesn't compete with rye. Use for grazing land will result inferior to oats and wet. It is very resistant to drought more than any other winter cereal. It is suitable to loose and dry soil. It isn't afraid of tired ground. Works well with other 1 year legimineuses as pigeon beans, vetch, peas, crimson clover.

Product code OMO 00 

Field pea
(Pisum sativum var. arvense)

Resistant to cold. Peas are used for the production of palatable roughage often in combination with barley or oats which provide high quality silage. Contains high level of protein. Used for human consumption although produce from either type can be used for animal feed.

Product code PIF 00 

Radish for green manure
(Raphanus marittimus)

 
Product code RAF 00 

Forage turnip
(Brassica campestris)

 
Product code Variety
RAF 01  NORFOLK GREEN
RAF 02  NORFOLK VIOLET
EME 03  TOSCANA or PISTOIESE
RAF 04  HALF LONG NAPOLETANA WHITE HEAD

White mustard
(Sinapis alba)

 
Product code SEN 00 

Soya bean
(Glycine max)

Use as forage for hay, ensilage, consuming fresh and green manure. Usual used as a subsidiary with maize or sorghum. Mowing of the soya when the legimineuses are half developed and the leaves not have initiated fall off.

Product code SOJ 00 

Sorghum
(Sorghum spp.)

Product code Variety Description
SOR 04  SUDAN GRASS
(Sorghum sudanense)
 
SOR 03  BROOM-CORN
(Sorghum vulgare)
 
SOR 02  SORGO IBRIDO da sfalcio  

Sulla
(Hedysarum coronarium)

For a warm climate, with mild winters. Used on acid or salt terrain. Rustic plant. Seeding in autumn or in spring intercropping with a corn as wheat or oatmeal. Sometimes are the seeds in a mixture used for grazing land. It grows fast in spring.


Clover
(Trifolium spp.)

Product code Variety Descrizione
TAL 00  BERSEEM CLOVER
(Trifolium alexandrinum)
It'is an annual and erect plant, rather similar in growth to red colver. Berseem clover has a very rapid growth; it's best adapted to neutral to alkaline soils and has some tolerance to saline soils.
Berseem clover is a native of the Mediterranean region; it has a low resistance to cold climate. It is a very good feed expecially for the high protein level.
Although sometimes included in pasture mixtures to increse the protein content of winter feed. It does not withstand grazing well and is usually sown on its own (25-30 kg / ha).
Sowing in autumn and in spring. We can also obtain 4 cutting in the year.
TIN 01  CRIMSON CLOVER early
(Trifolium incarnatum)
It is an annual plant with toproot. The leaf is composed by 3 leaflet (trifoliated).
It has red flower in axillary capitulum. Yellow-pink seed. One gramm contains about 300 seeds. It prefers a mild climate. It is less resistant to cold climate than red clover but more than Berseem Clover. It's adaptable to every kind of soils, but is suitable to syliceous, volcanic and acid soils.
There are many kinds of Crimson clover with different characteristics. For sowing it is necessary 25-30 kg /ha.
TIN 02  CRIMSON CLOVER late
(Trifolium incarnatum)
It is an annual plant with toproot. The leaf is composed by 3 leaflet (trifoliated).
It has red flower in axillary capitulum. Yellow-pink seed. One gramm contains about 300 seeds. It prefers a mild climate. It is less resistant to cold climate than red clover but more than Berseem Clover. It's adaptable to every kind of soils, but is suitable to syliceous, volcanic and acid soils.
There are many kinds of Crimson clover with different characteristics. For sowing it is necessary 25-30 kg /ha.
TSQ 00  CLOVER (Trifolium squarrosum) It is an annual plant with taproot. The leaf is composed by 3 leaflet (trifoliated).
It has pink flower in axillary capitulum. One gramm contains about 1300 seeds. It is adapted to alkaline, moist soils and also tolerates salty conditions.
It has a very rapid growth and a high resistence to diseases. Grows well in warm and moist climates, also in mild areas. It is more resistence to cold than Berseem Clover, but less to dry conditions. Generally it is used as green fodder; sillage and grazing are also possible.
TVI 00  RED CLOVER (Trifolium pratense)  
TVI 01  RED CLOVER (Trifolium pratense) prov. CANADA  
TSO 00  SUBTERRANEAN CLOVER early (Trifolium subterraneum) It is an annual plant with prostate stems. The leaf is composed by 3 leaflet (trifoliated).
It has white flower in axillary capitulum. Dark red seed. One gramm contains about 200 seeds. It is adapted in climates with moist and mild winter and warm and dry summer.
It is usefull in very dry and poor soils. It withstands very good a strong pasture. For sowing it is necessary 25-30 kg/ha.
TSO 01  SUBTERRANEAN CLOVER late (Trifolium subterraneum) It is an annual plant with prostate stems. The leaf is composed by 3 leaflet (trifoliated).
It has white flower in axillary capitulum. Dark red seed. One gramm contains about 200 seeds. It is adapted in climates with moist and mild winter and warm and dry summer.
It is usefull in very dry and poor soils. It withstands very good a strong pasture. For sowing it is necessary 25-30 kg/ha.
TLA 00  BIANCO LADINO GIGANTE (Trifolium repens var. giganteum)  
TNE 00  NERO DI ALSIKE (Trifolium hybridum)  
TAL 02  PERSIAN CLOVER(Trifolium resupinatum) It is an annual plant with taproot. The leaf is composed by 3 leaflet (trifoliated).
It has pink flower in axillary capitulum. One gramm contains about 1300 seeds. It is adapted to alkaline, moist soils and also tolerates salty conditions.
It has a very rapid growth and a high resistence to diseases. Grows well in warm and moist climates, also in mild areas. It is more resistent to cold than Berseem Clover, but less to dry conditions. Generally it is used as green fodder; sillage and grazing are also possible.

Vetch
(Vicia spp.)

Product code Variety Description
VEC 02  BLACK VETCH var. Nitra
(Vicia sativa)
It adapts very easy in divers climates, excluded too extreme climates. To use for fresh forage, to ensilo it, or to turn in hay. Collecting of the grass at the beginning of the flowering.
VEC 01  SAND VETCH
(Vicia villosa)
This is a species of vetch that is more rustic and better resistant to cold. Because it is very rustic is adapts easily to warm and dry climates. It also grow well on sandy terrain, acid and alkaline ground.

Cowpea
(Vigna sinensis)

One year plant. It is cultivated for fresh grass or for green manure.

Product code VIG 00 

Squash
(Cucurbita maxima)

 
Product code ZUE 00 

 Mixture of seeds for forage grass 

Permanent forage grass for ovine

Product code Amount
for plantation
Varieties
MSC 03  80-100 kg/ha TALL FESCUE
PERENNIAL RYEGRASS
COCKSFOOT
ITALIAN RYEGRASS
TIMOTHY
BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL
WHITE CLOVER

Permanent forage grass for bovine

Product code Amount
for plantation
Varieties
MSC 04  80-100 kg/ha TALL FESCUE
PERENNIAL RYEGRASS
COCKSFOOT
ITALIAN RYEGRASS
TIMOTHY
BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL
WHITE CLOVER

Permanent forage grass for equine

Product code Amount
for plantation
Varieties
MSC 05  80-100 kg/ha TALL FESCUE
PERENNIAL RYEGRASS
COCKSFOOT
ITALIAN RYEGRASS
TIMOTHY
BIRDSFOOT TREFOIL
WHITE CLOVER

Temporay forage grass for cutting "Laura"

Product code Amount
for plantation
Varieties
MSC 01  60 kg/ha ITALIAN RYEGRASS
CLOVER
SAND VETCH
VETCH
BERSEEM CLOVER
PERSIAN CLOVER