We are helping farmers to maximise their homegrown feed potential. Our people, knowledge and expertise are on hand to help you grow the best quality and quantity forage for your livestock.
We are helping farmers to maximise their homegrown feed potential. Our people, knowledge and expertise are on hand to help you grow the best quality and quantity forage for your livestock.
Maximising your homegrown feed potential can contribute to a more sustainable and resilient future, as reducing your reliance on bought in feeds can bring both financial and environmental benefits.
Explore Corteva’s solutions for your new sown leys, established grassland, maize and silage inoculants.
Our Forage Agronomy Newsletter brings the latest information & advice from Corteva’s specialist forage team giving practical solutions to growing challenges through the production cycle from sowing, nurturing or improving.
Read hereTake a look at our Pioneer maize hybrids suitable for forage, biogas and grain maize.
Find out moreWe are very pleased to present to you the Pioneer maize hybrid range for 2023 and the results of the 2022 PACTS Trials. PACTS is an abbreviation for ‘Pioneer Accurate Crop Testing System’.
Download hereWatch this short video from Corteva Agriscience’s Mark Shaw explaining how best to control docks, illustrating optimum plant size and showing why “any spray is better than no spray” is a myth.
Watch hereThis video explains how to tackle problem weeds, such as chickweed and seedling docks, before they damage a new ley’s performance and become a more significant problem. The impact of not spraying a new sown ley could be to lose it altogether.
Watch hereCorteva Agriscience’s Mark Shaw describes the most effective time for controlling these perennial weeds, aiming to reach down into the roots and avoid killing only the visible plant foliage.
Watch hereEnvy controls buttercups, dandelions, daisy and other perennial weeds in paddocks and low productivity grassland.
Find out moreThe power of Grazon® SPOT in a smaller more convenient 0.5 litre bottle, equivalent to eight 10 litre knapsack fills. It’s ideal for those treating smaller areas. It provides excellent control of broad-leaved dock, curled dock, creeping thistle, spear thistle and common nettle and also has an effect on a large range of other weeds.
Find out moreForefront® T herbicide delivers control for docks, thistles, ragwort, nettles, dandelions and buttercups.
This solution moves to the roots ensuring high levels of long-term control.
Find out moreSimply stated Instinct® keeps more nitrogen in the soil for longer.
It is a nitrification inhibitor that works by slowing down the conversion of ammonum into nitrate. Nitrate can be lost from soils and into the environment by leaching or greenhouse gases.
Find out moreBrowse our extensive resource collection to tap into a wealth of information and expertise from our specialists, who are on hand to give you the knowledge and resource you need.
The Forage App features a range of resources to help farmers maximise their grassland quality. You’ll have access to the best new and upcoming product solutions, the latest newsletters, guides, research tools and more.
Download NowTake a look at our grassland herbicides decision tree to find the best solution for your situation.
Learn MoreOur forage specialists are on hand to support you with experience and local advice. You can also find details of our Hotline for technical enquiries.
Learn MoreWe live in a world that is now far more focused on agricultural production, and how these processes impact sustainability and the overall health of our planet.
Livestock farmers and the pasture-led production systems have a crucial role to play in ensuring that these concerns are addressed as they continue to deliver for the consumer.
Learn MoreWait for active growth. Target spray at a rosette stage - 15cm across. Once a seed head appears, performance will be les. Take a look at the Spray Timing toll in Support Tools of the Corteva Grassland App to get more information.
Best control is achieved by application pre flowering to active leaf growth. This is likely to be in April.
Only Forefront T controls ragwort. Other products can have some effect so if ragwort is present at the time of spraying ensure animals are returned when either ragwort has decayed completely or has greened back up and become unpalatable again.
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