Traditional Game Cover Mix

3Kg Game Maize
1.75Kg White Millet
1.5Kg Red Millet
1.5Kg Buckwheat
1Kg Kale
0.75Kg Sunflower
0.25kg White Mustard
0.25Kg Forage Rape

Sowing Rate – 10Kg/acre  25Kg/ha

Rearing Field Mix

50% Agricultural Perennial Ryegrass
12% Smooth Stalked Meadow Grass
30% Strong Creeping Red Fescue
8% Timothy

Sowing Rate – 10Kg/acre  25Kg/ha

Millgame Millet Mix

50% Red Millet
50% White Millet

Sowing Rate – 5Kg/acre  12.5Kg/ha

Ambush Millet Mix

40% Red Millet
40% White Millet
20% Japanese Reed Millet

Sowing Rate – 5Kg/acre  12.5Kg/ha

Maize and Sorghum Mix

10Kg Game Maize Blend
4Kg Dwarf Sorghum

Sowing Rate – 14Kg/acre  35Kg/ha

Maize and Sunflower Mix

11.5Kg Game Maize Blend
1.5Kg Sunflower

Sowing Rate – 13Kg/acre  32.5Kg/ha

Fodder Radish and Mustard Mix

3.5Kg Fodder Radish
1.5Kg White Mustard

Sowing Rate – 5Kg/acre  12.5Kg/ha

Quinoa and Kale Mix

1.25Kg Quinoa
1.25Kg Kale

Sowing Rate – 2.5Kg/acre  6Kg/ha

Borage 
Borago officinalis

Borage, also known as Star Flower, is an annual species.  It produces eye catching electric blue flowers from May to September that are a magnet for bees, especially honeybees and bumblebees.  Borage has the ability to improve soil compaction due to its deep tap roots.  It readily self seeds which can make it difficult to eradicate.

Sowing Rate – 10Kg/acre
25Kg/ha 

Buckwheat
Fagopyrum esculentum

Buckwheat is a vigorous, quick growing, short term annual that produces dense, green ground cover and can act as a weed suppressant.  It improves soil by breaking down phosphate and making it available to other crops.  It is a vital pollen and nectar for pollinators and invertebrates.  Buckwheat is not frost hardy. 

Sowing Rate – 20Kg/acre
50Kg/ha

Canary Grass
Phalaris aquatica

Canary Grass is a hardy perennial that provides a warm nesting, driving or holding cover for game birds during winter.  It flowers from June to September and is capable of growing on poor soils. 

Sowing Rate – 3Kg/acre
7.5Kg/ha

Dwarf Sunflower
Helianthus annuus

Dwarf Sunflower is a shorter stemmed variety of sunflower and can grow up to 1m.   It provides stronger standing ability than the standard sunflower.

Sowing Rate – 10Kg/acre 25Kg/ha

Ethiopian Mustard
Brassica carinata

Ethiopian Mustard is a quick establishing, fast growing crop that produces a dense, leafy canopy.  It suppresses weeds and is also frost hardy.

Sowing Rate – 2Kg/acre
5Kg/ha

Fennel
Foeniculum vulgare

Fennel is an easy to establish, short term perennial.  It is a tall, hardy, drought tolerant crop that has an aniseed smell and produces yellow flowers that are attractive to pollinators and beneficial insects.  It provides cover for partridges, pheasants and other farmland birds.

Sowing Rate – 5Kg/acre
12.5Kg/ha

Gold of Pleasure
Camelina sativa

Gold of Pleasure, also known as False Flax, is an annual species.  It is quick to establish and has good drought tolerance.  It provides highly nutritious food for farmland birds well into the winter, as well as providing shelter.  It is especially attractive to partridges.

Sowing Rate – 5Kg/acre  12.5Kg/ha

Japanese Reed Millet
Echinochloa esculenta

Japanese Reed Millet provides both food and shelter for game birds.  Although it does provide food, it is worth noting that the quantity will be less than other millets.  It is the stronger, more winter hardy member of the millet family.

Sowing Rate – 10Kg/acre
25Kg/ha

Quinoa 
Chenopodium quinoa

Quinoa is an annual crop used for feed and game cover for pheasants, partridges and farmland birds.  It is an upright plant with large seed heads that produce large volumes of seed. This seed sheds continuously over many months providing a good supply of food.

Sowing Rate – 4Kg/acre
10Kg/ha

Reed Canary Grass
Phalaris arundinacea

Reed Canary Grass is a perennial that provides tall cover for nesting, holding and driving game birds.  It is slow to establish in the first year but once established it is extremely winter hardy and can last over 7 years.  It is a hardier species than Canary Grass.

Sowing Rate – 3Kg/acre
7.5Kg/ha

Sunflower
Helianthus annuus

Sunflower is a very tall annual crop.  It has strong roots which help to reduce soil compaction and also provides a plentiful food source for song birds and game birds in autumn/winter.

Sowing Rate – 10Kg/acre
25Kg/ha 

White Millet
Panicum miliaceum

White Millet is an annual that provides food and cover for game birds.  It flowers slightly earlier than Red Millet and produces thicker leaves and larger seed heads, making it a higher yielding species.  It works well when sown with Red Millet as due to Red Millet flowering slightly later, it extends the seed shedding timescale for farmland birds.  It is also often used alongside Maize.  White Millet is not frost hardy.

Sowing Rate – 10Kg/acre
25Kg/ha

Spring Triticale Triticosecale – Sowing Rate – 75Kg/acre  187.5Kg/ha
Spring Wheat Triticum aestivum – Sowing Rate – 75Kg/acre  187.5Kg/ha
Spring Barley Hordeum vulgare – Sowing Rate – 75Kg/acre  187.5Kg/ha
Spring Oats Avena sativa – Sowing Rate – 50-65Kg/acre  125-162.5Kg/ha
Forage Rye Secale cereale – Sowing Rate – 75/Kg/acre  187.5Kg/ha