Rohan

Perennial ryegrass

Rohan is our unique spreading perennial ryegrass, giving red meat farmers robust, tasty, easy-to-manage hill country pasture.

Spreading spreader

Rohan's spreading habit helps fill bare areas in your pasture, so you can protect your soils and keep weeds at bay (see photo below).

This also helps pasture recover from adverse climatic events, particularly long dry periods, because Rohan spreads to fill space where ryegrass tillers may have died.
Rohan is not indestructible. Like all ryegrasses, it performs best under reasonable management and soil fertility. But its spreading habit improves persistence.

Rohan Stolon spreading across the ground.

Red meat fit

Success with any pasture comes from matching a cultivar to a particular situation. So where does Rohan fit? Let’s look at different pasture types across your farm, based on persistence:

Pg 14 - Rohan spreading perennial ryegrass - Sheep & beef system fit - table.png

Self managing

On semi-intensive to semi-extensive farms, it's not easy to maintain pasture quality in late spring. A continual comment from farmers with Rohan is that it 'always looks good' - it stays greener and leafier and is usually preferentially grazed. In farm trials, it has shown a 0.7 higher ME than some other cultivars in November and December

Pg 15 - Rohan spreading perennial ryegrass - easy to manage - photo.png — Three year old *Rohan* (green) sown beside Nui ryegrass (brown) in the same paddock in Central Otago. Rohan is much preferred by stock.

Very low stagger risk

Rohan with NEA2 endophyte provides very low staggers risk pasture for sheep and staggers free pasture for cattle. In the 20 years we have sold NEA2, no ryegrass staggers have been seen in sheep or cattle on commercial farms.

Grow more in the dry

Under ideal conditions Rohan does not have the same yield potential as cultivars like Maxsyn, growing about 10% less. But under tough, dry conditions Rohan will probably persist better and yield more over the life of a pasture.