Forages & Pastures

40% Fojtan Festulolium
30% Inavale Orchardgrass
25% Hostyn Festulolium
5% Balin Kentucky Bluegrass

The Supreme Pasture Mix combines our toughest and highest yielding Festulolium, Fojtan, with a terrific early spring Festulolium, Hostyn, and Inavale Orchardgrass. Balin Kentucky Bluegrass is added to aid in the improvement of sod quality and help with reducing weed pressure. Your livestock will have three super species of highly palatable grass to choose from when grazing.

40% Inavale Orchardgrass
40% Olathe Orchardgrass
15% Hostyn Festulolium
5% Balin Kentucky Bluegrass

Orchardgrass is a terrific source of high-quality forage. This mix combines an early maturing, high-yielding orchardgrass called Olathe and a mid-maturing orchardgrass called Inavale with excellent persistence and vigor. Hostyn Festulolium provides for fast establishment and will produce lots of early spring/fall high-quality forage. The Kentucky Bluegrass forage variety named Balin, helps to improve sod quality which will reduce weed pressure and is a great source of palatable forage.

75% Fojtan Festulolium
20% Hostyn Festulolium
  5% Balin Kentucky Bluegrass

Duragraze is a combination of two Festulolium varieties. Fojtan is a durable grass that is able to withstand the toughest environmental conditions. Fojtan will handle hot dry summers and continue to produce grass for grazing. Research from various University forage trials prove that Fojtan is a proven performer of high yielding high quality forage. The Hostyn Festulolium is in the mix to provide for early spring and early fall growth, and helps with fast establishment. The Balin Kentucky Bluegrass is added for the improvement of sod quality which helps to reduce weed pressure.

A very late maturing, fine leaved, long lasting orchardgrass. Makes terrific and very palatable hay.

A late maturing, fine leaved, long lasting orchardgrass. Makes terrific and highly palatable hay.

An earlier Maturing orchardgrass that is long lasting. Matures 5 to 6 days before Echelon and Inavale.

Festulolium is the name for a hybrid forage grass developed by crossing Meadow Fescue or Tall Fescue with perennial ryegrass or Italian ryegrass. This enables combining the best properties of the two types of grass. The fescues contribute qualities such as high dry matter yield, resistance to cold, drought tolerance and persistence, while ryegrass is characterized by rapid establishment, good spring growth, terrific digestibility, sugar content and palatability. The individual festulolium varieties contain various combinations of these qualities, but all are higher yielding than their parent lines. DLF has developed a substantial breeding program in hybrid festulolium that has produced a unique range of hybrid festulolium varieties. One can regard them as high yielding fescues with improved forage quality or as high yielding, more persistent ryegrasses.

• Fojtan – high yielding, persistency of tall fescue with the quality of ryegrass
• Hostyn – high yielding, early spring/fall forage, quick establishment

Tall fescues are high yielding and the most persistent of all grass forages, tall fescues are drought tolerant, heat resistant, and insect tolerant. Tall fescue is not as palatable as other forages and it is necessary to plant varieties that will not cause fescue toxicosis.

• Martin II Protek – as all tall fescues, Martin II Protek is high yielding with a high level of persistency. The difference between Martin II Protek and other tall fescues is that it possesses a non-toxic novel endophyte.
• Brustus – durable high yielding endophyte free tall fescue. Brustus will not have the persistency of Martin II Protek.

Martin 2 Protek®

• Combines genetics of Martin 2 forage tall fescue with the enhancement of the Protek® endophyte.
  – Martin 2 is an early-medium forage tall fescue selected for the transition zone
  – Protek® is a novel endophyte (Neotyphodium coenophialum) that does not produce detectable levels of harmful ergot alkaloids such as the toxin ergovaline
  
• Tall fescue plants inoculated with Protek® endophyte show increased forage productivity compared to the non-inoculated plants of the same variety
• Protek® endophyte will defend the inoculated tall fescue plants against insects feeding on the tillers and leaves, resulting in reduced stress from insect damage

Kentucky Bluegrass produces high quality, highly palatable forage and a tightly meshed sod that reduces weed competition. Kentucky Bluegrass does not produce the yield of festulolium, tall fescue and orchardgrass and goes into a summer dormancy.

Balin Kentucky Bluegrass – broadly adapted, good seedling vigor.

Zenyatta – Zenyatta is a top yielding variety of timothy. Maturity is earlier than Climax and similar to Clair yet will outyield both varieties. In the high value horse hay market, Zenyatta outpaces the competition. Zenyatta’s consistent dark green color, minimal brown leaf problems, good standability and long seed head contributes a high visual score. Excellent regrowth facilitates a profitable second cut.

Winnetou – Is an intermediate maturing timothy that can be grazed and still maintain a suitable ground cover. Winnetou will produce high quality forage of acceptable yields.

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Super T Intermediate Ryegrass

Zoro Italian Ryegrass

Chuck Wagon Forage Annual Ryegrass

Clair Timothy – early maturing

Climax Timothy – late maturing

Winnetou Timothy – grazing variety

Chieftain Reed Canarygrass

Persister Smooth Bromegrass

Jumbo II White Clover – improved Ladino type

Ladino Clover

Medium Red Clover

Ruby Red Clover

Crimson Clover