Array NEA2

Improve your high-performance pastures from spring through the most challenging summer season with Array NEA2 perennial ryegrass.

A stand-out amongst top trial lines for its year-round growth, Array excels in late spring and summer yield and quality providing a chance to enhance grazing systems with flexibility.

Key Features

• Highest feed availability in late-season perennial ryegrass pastures.
• Quality pasture grazing through summer
• High quality silage production
• Standout new variety to replace Impact 2 and compliment Maxsyn.

Benefits of sowing Array NEA2

• 8% yield improvement over Matrix SE in 18 years’ worth of trial data. (six trials of three years each)
• Very late flowering (+23 days): retains feed quality longer into spring and early summer.
• Reduced spring peak for flexible management.
• Better late spring quality and summer growth than earlier heading types.
• Densely tillered and upright growth habit: high harvestability and legume compatibility.
• NEA2 endophyte:
  • Excellent black beetle, Argentine stem weevil tolerance and good root aphid tolerance.
  • No concern for ryegrass staggers or reduced animal productivity.
  • Proven endophyte in Bealey, Impact 2, Kidman and Rohan perennial ryegrasses.

Agronomy & Management

Array perennial ryegrass is suited to temperate higher rainfall or irrigated locations with optimal growth between 10-30°C. 

Good paddock preparation will aid establishment. 

Use methods such as stale-seed bed, or a targeted herbicide program to reduce the weed-seed burden in the paddock, especially grass weeds. Application of slug bait may be an important consideration. 

Array is best sown with soil temperatures of at least 10-12°C in early-mid autumn or in early spring as  establishment below 8°C may be slower. 

Companion grasses should be sown at rates that compliment the performance of Array. 
Blended with tetraploid perennial ryegrass such as 4front NEA2, Array will offer a denser sward and improved resilience to tougher seasons. 
Combined with a diploid perennial ryegrass such as Maxsyn NEA4 to spread the seasonal growth a little earlier, or with Rohan NEA2 to offer increased tolerance to wet sites and close grazing, Array is a flexible inclusion for many pasture solutions. 
Clovers should be sown at robust rates that provide opportunity for satisfactory pasture composition. 

Grazing management that seeks to avoid selective grazing will enhance and retain good pasture composition.

Array will require well-maintained pasture fertility levels to offer full productivity benefits. 
Array and companion species will need maintenance of phosphorus, potassium, sulphur and other elements provided to ensure continued performance and persistence. Initial and regular soil testing is recommended. 

Once established, Array pastures should be rotationally grazed to from 2½-3 leaf stage to optimise feed quality. 
Graze down to 3-5 cm residuals within 2-3 days and remove stock to allow rapid recovery and yield maximisation. 

Array with NEA2 endophyte has beneficial effects on black beetle, root aphids, and Argentine stem weevils.

Typical co-species

• Other pasture grasses
• Diploid perennial ryegrasses: Maxsyn NEA4, Rohan NEA2
• Tetraploid perennial ryegrasses: 4front NEA2
• Clovers and forage herbs
• White clover, red clover, sub clover, plantain.