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Timothy
- Superior for hay or grazing
- Early maturity
- Great palatability
- Perfect for pure stands or with legumes and other
grasses
- Improved summer regrowth
- Excellent spring vigor
- Superior leafiness
- Very winter hardy
Summit is a new early-type timothy with maturity similar to Clair and 10 days
earlier than Climax. Summit was bred for higher yields, faster spring green up and
better summer regrowth. Summit is ideally suited for pasture mixes, especially
when used with alfalfa. Summit can tolerate moderate continuous grazing, but
does best under rotational grazing. Summit is the hay and pasture grass of choice
for horse owners and others who demand high quality forage.
Orchardgrass
For Maximum Persistence Under Grazing
- Superior forage yield
- Ideal for pastures or hay
- Early maturity
- Great palatability
- Selected for persistence under heavy grazing
- Excellent plant vigor
- Drought tolerant
- Stem Rust resistance
- Maximum persistence for haying or grazing
- Superior yield
- Late maturity
- Stem Rust resistance
- Great palatability
- Perfect for alfalfa or clover mixes
- Increased stand persistence
- Excellent plant vigor
- Drought tolerant
- Superior yield
- Late maturity
- Stem Rust resistance
- Great palatability
- Perfect for alfalfa or clover mixes
- Increased stand persistence
- Excellent plant vigor
- Responds to irrigation
Tall Fescue
- High-yielding, endophyte-free variety
- Excellent hay and pasture variety
- Perfect for winter stockpiling
- Very good persistence and drought tolerance
- Wide area of adaptation
Enhance tall fescue is endophyte-free, eliminating concerns that animals feeding
on it will develop feeding disorders like fescue foot, bovine fat necrosis or fescue
toxicosis.
Enhance can be utilized in pure stands or in combination with legumes such as
white clover, red clover, alfalfa or lespedeza. It also makes outstanding hay when
harvested prior to maturity. Stubble height should be 3 to 4 inches when grazed or
hayed. Tall fescue maintains nutritive value better than other cool season grasses,
which allows growth to be "stockpiled" in the field for winter grazing. Tall fescue
can be grown successfully on a wide range of soil types and can tolerate pH levels
from 4.7 to 9.5.
Ryegrass
- High Feed Value: As a tetraploid, Duo has a high sugar content that is easily digestible, allowing animals to gain a high-energy ratio for milk/meat conversion.
- High Persistence: University data continues to show that Duo is able to generally persist and survive longer than most ryegrasses without quality loss. University of
Ohio data shows Duo has very good winter survivability, exceeding most perennial ryegrasses.
- High Yields: University yield trial results have indicated that Duo can out-yield ryegrasses by 12-24%. Meadow fescue parentage minimizes "summer slump," while
ryegrass parentage maximizes spring and fall growth.
- High Palatability: University of Wisconsin Grazing Trial results reveal that cows show a preference for Duo over ryegrass. Dairy farmers should expect milk production
results similar to tetraploid ryegrass.
Many are familiar with ryegrass and some are aquainted with meadow fescue. Duo Festulolium is familiar with both. Duo was selected as a cross of the best festulolium
material available. It looks like ryegrass, digests like ryegrass, is palatable like ryegrass, but is heartier. Due to a parentage that includes meadow fescue, Duo can better
tolerate summer’s intense heat and winter's frigid cold. In evaluations throughout the country, Duo continues to show excellent performance and persistence. It also appears
to have a longevity that exceeds most ryegrasses. Duo is like ryegrass...but BETTER!
- Rapid production of high-quality forage
- Excellent persistence
- Bred for highly productive pastures and hay
- Excellent component for pasture mixes
- Highly palatable, digestible and nutritious
- Optimizes animal performance
- Endophyte-free
- Improved resistance to the principal ryegrass diseases
- Rapid germination
- Excellent seedling vigor and stand establishment
Grand Daddy Perennial Ryegrass is the top choice for progressive livestock producers. This new-generation forage perennial ryegrass is bred for highly productive pastures
and hay. A premier forage grass, perennial ryegrass provides cattle, sheep and horses with highly digestible, nutritious forage. Ryegrass is the cool-season grass species
that provides the highest level of animal performance when performance is measured as milk production or average daily gain.
Because Grand Daddy is endophyte free, it is an excellent cattle and horse forage. It has also been bred with resistance to the principal diseases that infect lesser perennial
ryegrasses, including rust, leaf spot, blight, mildew and brown patch. Any of these foliar diseases will reduce for/age quality, animal palatability, and ultimately, animal forage
intake and performance. Grand Daddy can be relied upon to produce high-quality forage very rapidly, given adequate rainfall and cool growing conditions. It is an excellent
component for pasture mixes, makes an excellent grass silage and produces extremely palatable hay. Its rapid growth provides excellent fall grazing, as well as superior
production in the early spring.
- High forage quality
- Good persistence
- Excellent seedling vigor
- Good grazing tolerance
- Adapted for hay, silage and grazing
- Rapid establishment
- Traffic resistant
- Improved digestibility
- Disease resistant
- Better summer yields
- Tetraploid
- Perennial
BESTFOR can be used for hay or silage production, as well as intensive grazing, with excellent results. The fact that BESTFOR is suited for haying as well as grazing makes it
very useful in mixtures with other grasses and legumes.
Compared to other hybrid ryegrasses, BESTFOR has better disease resistance, and the regrowth after cutting has very few stems, which results in extremely high forage quality.
BESTFOR is the perfect choice for spring or fall overseeding of thinning pasture and alfalfa stands to increase productivity.
Canarygrass
- Leafy, high-yielding, perennial forage grass
- Widely adapted
- Performs well on wet, poorly-drained soils and soils with a pH below 6.0
- Very drought tolerant variety that can be used for hay, silage or pasture
- Low alkaloid
Marathon has short rhizomes that spread, creating a dense sod. It has greater
winterhardiness and is more resistant to foliar disease than other cool-season
grasses. Use Marathon for hay, silage or pasture. When cut for hay or silage,
quality is optimal before seed heads appear, and then rapidly declines. Forage
yields are excellent in the spring and early summer and are fair to good in late
summer and early fall. When used as pasture, grazing Marathon down to 3 to
4 inches above the ground will make the best utilization of the forage. Allow the
grass to recover before regrazing, always keeping the grass below 12 inches tall
during rapid spring growth.
Sorghum-Sudangrass
- Small seeded and thin stemmed type
- Dark green color with Green Top trait
- Anthracnose and Downy Mildew resistant
Greengrazer V is a new small seeded three way cross with thin stems that are highly palatable. Regrowth after cutting is very fast. Greengrazer V is a dark green color and
also possesses the Green Top trait, which allows for further extension of the plant. Planting Greengrazer V at higher populations will result in a finer stemmed forage. Finer
stems will allow the forage to dry faster for higher quality hay than is possible with thick stemmed types.
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