High yields of premium pasture and bloat free forage. Excellent frost tolerance.
MEMPHIS is a new disease resistant, frost tolerant, high-yielding, multicut/multigraze, non-bloating Berseem Annual Clover bred for soil structure improvement and high forage/pasture productivity.
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Disease and mite tolerance
MEMPHIS has high seedling growth, mite tolerance, winter vigour and excellent disease resistance to support high yields of premium pasture and forage. Above; Tall, disease free mite tolerant stand. Below; mature disease free high quality forage crop. Bloat free forage
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Soil structure improvement
The strong taproot development of MEMPHIS is superior to shallow fibrous roots for improving soil structure at depth in highly compacted soils, particularly in cotton field hardpans.
Above; Memphis taproots.
Excellent frost tolerance
The high frost tolerance of MEMPHIS protects winter and spring growth in intensely frost prone inland, tableland and slope areas.
Above; A mature Memphis stand unaffected by frosts to -11°C, Inverell, NSW
Multicut/multigraze capacity
MEMPHIS has a very strong capacity for rapid stem initiation and regrowth after cutting or grazing.
Above; A Memphis plant from Murgon, Qld which has
been grazed four times, demonstrating sequential shoot
initiation (
) from nodes on defoliated stems.
Establishment from broadcast seed
In the Northern Tablelands of NSW MEMPHIS has successfully established germinating rain after seed has been broadcast in summer or winter.
Above: Memphis established on the Northern Tablelands, NSW.
Green-manuring and soil infultration improvement
Above; Memphis established from seed broadcast in January 2006. Photo March 2006
Establishment from fallen seedheads
Left; Memphis germinating pods from one seedhead. March 2006
Right; Re-establishing Memphis in grassland summer/autumn 2006 Inverell.
Green-manuring and soil infultration improvement
Broadcast MEMPHIS is an excellent green manure establishing from seed broadcast into autumn stubbles following summer crops (cotton, sorghum, corn). It has the additional benefit of improving soil infiltration from it’s tap-root penetration.
Above; Seeding Memphis established after cotton rebedding Murgon 2004.