Turnips
PGG Wrightson Seeds have three turnip cultivars available:
- BARKANT™ Summer Turnip
- Green Globe Summer/Winter Turnip
- Appin Winter Turnip
Suggested Crop
Green Globe and BARKANT™ complement each other very well and provide a better option than planting turnips with a medium maturity date, as they don't get the benefits of early or late feed quality and quantity.
This crop can be used as a summer dairy option. Given the different maturity dates of summer turnips the following practice may help in maximising summer milk production. Planting 2/3 of the crop area in BARKANT™ and 1/3 in Green Globe turnips at the same time, in different paddocks, provides farmers with a summer feed that can be grazed from 60-120 days. This is because the early maturing BARKANT™ can be grazed from 60-90 days and the later maturing Green Globe grazed from 90-120 days after planting.
Using this system, farmers don't have to worry about the quality of their turnip crop declining because they are trying to maintain an early maturing cultivar for too long, and they don't need to worry about reduced yields by having to graze a later maturing crop too early.