Seed & Seed Mixes

RDS Coleman Consulting is an authorised distributor for Heritage Seeds products and services.

Heritage Seeds is one of Australia’s largest privately owned pasture seed companies. Heritage Seeds specialize in quality tropical and temperate pastures, fodder crops, forage cereals, turf and amenity grasses. Heritage Seeds ensure their products are market leaders through significant investment in research and development programs at their facilities in NSW and QLD, as well as numerous off-station trial sites and commercial farms.

In addition to the standard seed mixes, Heritage Seeds have worked with RDS Coleman Consulting to develop the following high-performance mixes for specific conditions and enterprises;

Seed mix	Rainfall range	Varieties	% of mix	Seeding Rate (kg/ha.)	Comments
RDS Annual Hay/Silage mix	500mm+	Late-flowering tetraploid PRG Late maturing diploid ARG	50 50	25	A mix of the leading Heritage Seeds annual & short rotation rye grasses. Designed to deliver high winter & late spring production, this diploid/tetraploid mix combines extremely fast establishment with late season production of a leading annual ryegrass. Quite simply, this premium blend gives livestock producers excellent energy yields, consistency across all seasons and importantly easy grazing and outstanding fodder conservation for grazing or hay/silage production.
RDS Perennial Alpaca mix	500mm+	High performance diploid PRG Fast establishing tall fescue Latest winter active phalaris Highly winter active lucerne Increased persistence sub-clover Excellent growth sub-clover Tolerant medium rainfall clover Australian conditions cocksfoot	35 20 10 10 5 5 5 10	25	The grazing habits of Alpacas require that special consideration is given to the selection & management of the pasture. This mix has a balance of highly productive, hardy perennial varieties with the addition of legumes to maintain bulk and quality.
RDS Equine 350	350mm+	Australian conditions cocksfoot Latest winter active phalaris Spineless burr medic Increased persistence sub-clover Highly winter active Lucerne	32 20 20 14 14	25	A highly productive blend of perennial pasture grasses, clover and Lucerne, based on species that are preferred by horses and that are adapted to perform in lower rainfall regions. The blend is ideally suited to dry-land grazing regions with 350+mm rainfall
RDS Equine 500	500mm+	High performance diploid PRG Fast establishing tall fescue Latest winter active phalaris Highly winter active Lucerne Increased persistence sub-clover ‘Excellent growth sub-clover Tolerant medium rainfall clover Australian conditions cocksfoot	35 20 10 10 5 5 5 10	25	A finely tuned blend comprising fescue, cocksfoot, phalaris, ryegrass, sub clovers, ‘Balansa’ clover and Lucerne. Suited to dry-land or irrigation, this blend provides high quality, safe horse pasture grazing combining quality and persistence.

Key: ‘PRG’ – perennial rye grass, ‘ARG’ – annual rye grass

Through our distributorship with Heritage Seeds we are also very competitive with all their standard mixes and blends, and varietal species such as;

Forage herbs
Forage brassicas
Lucerne
Forage cereals