Game Cover Mixtures

The GFS range of game cover mixtures are specially formulated to ensure you achieve the best from your cover crops. Combining different species into a mixture can extend the utilisation period, help to attract and hold specific types of game and provide feed and cover where both are required.

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Game Cover Mixtures

GFS TRADITIONAL GAME

Benefits

  • A traditional mixture using a wide range of reliable species
  • Provides full season of cover and feed for all game birds
  • Sunflowers add an attractive splash of colour
  • Attractive to insects and wildbirds
  • Variance in seed size needs to be considered when drilling

£37.50

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 25

Contents

30% Game Maize

17.5% White Millet

15% Red Millet

14% Buckwheat

9.5% Kale

7.5% Sunflower

2.5% White Mustard

2.5% Forage Rape

1% Gold of Pleasure

0.5% Phacelia

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DECOY GAME MIXTURE

(AB9)

Benefits

  • Combines eight small seed producing species
  • Provides excellent cover and feed, will last throughout the season
  • Easy to sow and establish as all the seeds are of similar size
  • Herbicide options for weeds available

£30.00

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 20

Contents

25% Linseed

21% Buckwheat

18.5% Red Millet

18.5% White Millet

6.5% Fodder Radish

6.5% White Mustard

2.5% Japanese Reed Millet

1.5% Gold of Pleasure

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MAY HILL

(AB9)

Benefits

  • Full Season Winter Hardy Cover
  • Good standing power especially in exposed sites
  • Good source of winter feed for game and farmland birds
  • Will last 2 years if required
  • Brown mustard improves establishment
  • Sowing Date, April – June
  • Fine Firm weed free seed bed
  • Drill or Broadcast depth 1-2 cm
  • Roll in to ensure good soil contact and retail moisture
  • Fertiliser requirements, Nitrogen 100 kg / ha, Phosphate 50 (kg/ha) and Potash 120 (kg/ha)

£37.50

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 16

Contents

1.00 kg Proteor Kale

0.50 kg Gorilla Forage Rape

0.75 kg Interval Hybrid

0.75 kg Fodder Radish

1.25 kg Spring Linseed

0.50 kg Gold of Pleasure

0.50 kg White Mustard

0.50 kg Phacelia

0.50 kg Carbon Hybrid Brassica

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BOOST MIXTURE

Benefits

  • A fast growing, quick to establish, frost hardy crop
  • Ideal to sow in late Summer or early Autumn
  • Provides cover that will last throughout the winter
  • Excellent as a ‘rescue’ mixture for patching failed crops or when a later sown crop is required.

£23.75

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 10

Contents

65% Carbon Hybrid

10% Forage Rape

10% Fodder Radish

10% Brown Mustard

5% White Mustard

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KWIK FIX

Benefits

  • Flexible and economic cover crop
  • Can be used to patch failed spring game covers
  • Mustard provides rapid cover and Fodder Radish prolongs the cover period
  • Will not provide full season cover, but it is more winter hardy than straight mustard.

£17.50

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 15

Contents

80% Fodder Radish

20% White Mustard

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OVERDRIVE

Benefits

  • Traditional Kale Quinoa mixture
  • Kale provides excellent cover
  • Quinoa produces high quality feed
  • Very well proven and reliable over many years
  • Ensure adequate fertility

£30.00

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 6

Contents

50% Carmen Quinoa

50% GFS Kale Blend

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GFS KALE BLEND

Benefits

  • A combination of three excellent game cover Kale varieties
  • Provides a tall varied canopy
  • This blend gives superb cover over an extended period
  • Good second year growth with various
  • The flowering Kale attracts insects and sheds seed, which helps to draw game and song birds

£33.75

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 4

Contents

45% Proteor

30% Astera

25% Golden Eye

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ZOOM BRASSICA MIXTURE

Benefits

  • Zoom is a blend of Winfred Hybrid Brassica and Forage Rape
  • Very vigorous and quick growing
  • Ideal for replacing failed crops or patching Spring sown crops
  • Good seedling vigour which gives reliable establishment

£27.50

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 5

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OVER N’ UNDER SORGHUM MIXTURE

(Treatment Fungicide treated)

Benefits

  • A combination of two different heights of Sorghum
  • The shorter Dwarf Sorghum will give the birds cover and protection from predators
  • Taller Giant Sorghum acts as a windbreak

£55.00

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 20

Contents

50% Giant/Intermediate Sorghum

50% Dwarf Sorghum

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MILLGAME MILLET MIX

Benefits

  • Blend of Red and White Millet, useful as the Red matures earlier than the White
  • This mixture can produce huge amounts of high protein feed per acre
  • Combined with Maize creates an excellent cover and feed
  • Very well proven and popular

£27.50

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 10

Contents

50% Red Millet

50% White Millet

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AMBUSH MILLET MIX

Benefits

  • A combination of White, Red and Japanese Reed Millet
  • The Reed Millet is the stronger plant and significantly more winter hardy
  • White and Red Millet produces plentiful seed to hold the birds in the cover
  • An ideal mixture for use as a wind-proof belt around Maize or as a flushing point at the end of Maize

£31.00

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Sowing Info

Sowing Rate (kg/ha) 10

Contents

40% White Millet

40% Red Millet

20% Japanese Reed Millet

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