Crusader Italian Ryegrass                  When you depend on feed have confidence in yield

Crusader is a highly productive, rapidly establishing, late flowering diploid Italian ryegrass.  It can be used for grazing, silage or hay production.  Crusader produces more dry matter than most other short term ryegrass varieties from a combination of its early growth from establishment, excellent winter production, and strong persistence into summer.  Crusader is one of the latest flowering Italian ryegrasses, which maximizes the vegetative growth period; as a result, this extended leafiness will provide significant benefits for late spring-early summer pasture quality and animal production.  Persistence into, and through a second year is an added benefit.  Crusader has shown resilience to a range of environmental conditions and seeding techniques and is proving to have consistently high total production.