Array

Easy to eat

Array is the perennial ryegrass hard-working ruminants have been hoping for. Upright, leafy and densely tillered, it’s made for easy eating and high intake.
Chomping through thousands of bites every day demands a lot of physical energy! Array takes some effort out of this process, because it stands tall and literally puts itself closer to those hungry mouths.
Your animals will naturally eat more as a result, and have extra time to relax, ruminate and produce meat or milk. That’s better for them, and for you too.

Very persistent

Keep your diesel in the tank, and leave your soil undisturbed, because Array has our highest ranking for pasture persistence. It’s every bit as good as Maxsyn.

Top yield

Array is right up there with the best cultivars in total DM yield too See www.dairynz.co.nz/fvi 

Great cool season growth

Array has the best cool season growth of any perennial ryegrass we’ve bred. That helps fill the gap when feed is short, and makes your farm more resilient so you can adapt to shifting climatic patterns.

Get your eye in

You will see Array pastures look different, very dense but erect. This can initially deceive some farmers, as Chris Knowles of Tariki explains.

“Next to a paddock of Governor AR37, if you shut them both up at the same time, it looks the same length, but because it’s so dense there is close to 20% more pasture there.”

Two seasons and many more hectares of Array later, they’ve embraced the difference, making sure the cows go in four to five days earlier each time.

It’s a small change to capture what Array has to offer, Chris says, and he’s ‘definitely’ happy to continue with it.
He estimates his Array paddocks are growing 20% more than his other pastures.

Happy, healthy animals

Array keeps animals happy and healthy with leafy, high energy grazing and a very late heading date (+23 days). For dairy cows and beef, Array provides ryegrass staggers free pasture. For sheep and deer, there is a very low risk of ryegrass staggers when grazing NEA2 endophyte.

Very persistent

Keep your diesel in the tank, and leave your soil undisturbed, because Array has our highest ranking for pasture persistence. It’s every bit as good as Maxsyn.

Eats N for breakfast

In trials, Array has grown significantly more feed under low nitrogen conditions than other ryegrass cultivars.

What does this mean for you? First, more even pasture growth at times when soil nitrogen is deficient, something that happens on virtually every farm during the year.

Second, a win for the environment, because you have the potential to utilise nitrogen more efficiently

Sowing Array