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FORCE 4™

One of New Zealand’s favourite lucerne cultivars
Strengths

Rapid growth and superior animal production

Mid-season maturity coupled with very high yield

Strong autumn/winter/spring activity, excellent palatability, and broad disease toleranc

FEATURES AND BENEFITS

Force 4 comprises multi-stemmed plants with an upright growth habit. It maintains high numbers of leaves along its stems. Force 4 shows good early growth and long term persistence, and has excellent cold and drought tolerance.

FARM SUITABILITY

Feed Available

On the international lucerne dormancy scale of 1-10 (1 = highly winter dormant, 10 = highly winter active) Force 4 is a winter dormant variety. Force 4 produces large amounts of high quality feed, through mid-late spring, summer and autumn.

Stock suitability

All Stock types

Sowing rate

8-12kg/ha
of freshly inoculated seed. Up to 6kg/ha in mixes.

DISEASE RATING

MR = Moderate resistance, R = Resistant, HR = Highly Resistant

BGA
Blue Green Aphid
MR
SN
Stem Nematode
R
RKN
Root-knot Nematode
R
PRR
Phytophthora Root Rot
HR
VW
Verticillium Wilt
HR
BW
Bacterial Wilt
R
FW
Fusarium Wilt
HR

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