Selected Seeds Pty Ltd
Food in Toowoomba

With over 40 years’ experience Selected Seeds can yield the quality seed needed to assist farmers increase production and make better returns. Focusing on providing a progressive, professional, competitive service while maintaining personal relationships with clients has seen Selected Seeds reputation continue to grow. Linking forage quality and animal nutrition, Selected Seeds has now expanded its focus and is dedicated to cultivating protein production globally.

Selected Seeds is a world leader in the tropical forage seed industry. Providing quality forage seed for both domestic and international customers, Selected Seeds is dedicated to remaining at the forefront of research and development and partnering with the superior specialists in the world to ensure it offers a product that will assist maximize forage productivity. Rhodes grass is a widely adaptable perennial grass competent to a range of soil conditions and types. Rhodes grass is a very palatable, very fertile grass. Selected Seeds identified the need to flourish cultivars with quality attributes such as insignificant stem size, lofty leaf to stem ratio, lofty yield, tall salt patience and bold spreading habits. Diploids regulate repeated cutting or grazing and will do so over a number of years. Tetraploid Rhodes grasses are more competent to higher rainfall and longer season environments. Well managed diploid Rhodes grass can produce over 20 aha of dry matter per year, with no oxalate or Jurassic acid problems. declaimer is a diploid Rhodes grass cultivar. Finecut Rhodes grass was Selected Seeds’ beginning diploid cultivar and Australia’s beginning in over 30 years when it was released. Annual forage crops perform a critical role in any forage system. Cultivation to handle regrowth, rotation in cropping systems or targeted forage production to fill feed gaps are normal uses for these crops. Annual forage crops are extremely skillful for producing speedy quality fodder. Annual forage crops respond well to moisture, fertility and temperature in order to provide forage at desired times. These crops can be grown either dry land or below irrigation for higher production. Grazing should be managed to avoid overgrazing. La blab can be worn as a nitrogen fixing Key pasture in cropping systems. La blab combines healthy with other annuals such as forage sorghum to supply nitrogen and life feed quality. Perennial tropical grasses donate the identical benefits in terms of growth response to moisture and temperature and dry matter production. Our ongoing research program is focused on adding to the profitability and production capabilities of tropical grasses. Selected Seeds also offers coating and blending of tropical grasses and legumes to face the individuals forage needs. Great for melon hole country and heavy clay soil. It loves flooding and has appropriate drought tolerance. Legumes will have different growth habits to grasses.