Fodder Kale 'Gruener Angeliter' (Conv.)
'Gruener Angeliter' is an excellent kale with high organic matter, low flowering tendency and great winter feeding properties.
'Bombardier' available now too!.
Conventional untreated seed. Price is per kg. Call for bulk orders. More details below.
Fodder Kale Gruener Angeliter
A very high yielding variety with good winter hardiness and excellent feeding quality with fresh yields 15% higher than Caledonian kale and 10% higher than Bittern in German trials.
Grüner Angeliter has been the mainstay forage variety of kale in New Zealand for many years and since its introduction to the UK has become equally popular over here. It’s high yields makes it ideal for utilisation by dairy, beef cattle and winter feed for sheep.
- High productivity of organic matter.
- Fast development.
- Low tendency to flowering.
- Excellent for winter feeding.
- Stores lot of nitrogen
sowing time: Sow before end of June
Sowing rate: 2.5 - 7.5kg/ha. 1 - 3kg/acre
| Kale Yield and Feed Quality | |
| Average dry matter yield | 8 - 10 tonnes/ha |
| Average fresh yields | 60 – 65 tonnes/ha |
| Crude protein | 16 - 17% fresh, 19 - 25% ensiled |
| Digestibility value | 68D |
| Dry matter | 14 - 16% |
| Metabolisable energy | 10 - 11 MJ/kg DM |
| Sugars in DM | 17% |
| SKU | KAL01 |
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