Short & Sturdy Game Cover Mix

Ref: MIXSHORT

This mix is ideal for growing with maize to act as a windbreak on exposed sites or to create a flushing point in front of the gun line. The seed bearing grain sorghum, sunflower and millet also provide for farmland birds.

Persistence (0-10 Years)
               

Contents per Acre%kg
certifed Shorty dwarf sorghum65.05.200
certified dwarf sunflower25.02.000
white millet10.00.800
Units AcHaKg

£43.56 / Acre

Sowing rate: 8.0kg/acre (20.0kg/ha)

Minimum order 1 acre

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C4 Plants

Dwarf Sorghum

Although it is grown around the world for grain and as a fodder source, in the Uk sorghum is generally used as game bird cover. Dwarf sorghum is a short, stocky type of sorghum, designed to remain strong and upright throughout the shooting season.

Dwarf Sorghum Species Guide  Buy Dwarf Sorghum Straight

Other

Sunflower

Sunflowers have been cultivated for their seeds for many centuries. In the UK we utilise them to provide food for farmland birds.

Sunflower Species Guide

C4 Plants

White Millet

White millet is a warm season, cultivated grass species. It has been grown for centuries for it seed, as a forage and human consumption. In the UK it is generally used as a game cover component, or in a winter bird food mixture to provide food during the hungry gap, when natural resources are exhausted.

White Millet Species Guide