About Us
The Sims Family
We are a family owned and run business specialising in designing multi-species cover crops, forages and custom made blend seed mixes. We plant 1500ac a year of these multi species blends intergrating our livestock operation as part of our soil health program on our 8500 ac cropping program.
Why we Help
We found from our own experience that cover crops are a low risk, low input way to get maximum production above and below the ground, providing great live weight and animal health gains. In addition, cover crops assist in building soil structure, water infiltration, soil biology, water holding capacity, disease and weed supression.
How We do it
We source the highest quality bare seed that we can inoculate with worm juice and other microbes to enhance germination and quorm sensing between each species. By using a diversity of root architecture and root exudates, the multi-species are able to explore larger areas of soil, making them far more water and nutrient efficent. Each root system has its own unique ability to unlock and solubilise different minerals and nutrients. When put together in well designed mixes, plants will collaborate through quorum sensing and fungal associations to share and release these minerals and nutrients into the soil. This in turn can provide a greater nutrient density to the animals that graze it, resulting in all round gains and gives the earth a greater chance of sequestering and building soil carbon at depth.
Options we provide
- High Density Winter and Summer Cover Crops and Forages
- Starter Mixes for Winter and Summer
- Soil Health Biological Primers
- Dairy Mixes (Annuals and Perrinials)
- Fruit and Nut Orchard Inter Row Mixes
- Equine Mixes
- Wine and Vine Inter Row Mixes