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Cool Season Grasses & Annual Legumes

Our cool season grasses and annual legumes are carefully selected to enhance forage production and improve soil health in regenerative cropping systems. With exceptional dry matter yield and superior forage quality, true Italian ryegrass varieties offer consistent productivity without excessive seed set. Meanwhile, our annual legumes play a vital role in nitrogen fixation, boosting soil microbiota and delivering high-protein nutrition to forage systems. Whether you're looking to maximize forage output, improve soil resilience, or create diverse, sustainable grazing solutions, our lineup ensures long-term productivity and environmental benefits.

    • Italian Ryegrass is a fast-establishing cool season grass that is a biennial in warmer climates but acts as an annual in Alberta - therefore it does not produce a seed head. It can produce exceptionally high quality, leafy, and palatable forage that is popular among dairy producers. It provides vigorous regrowth, has an extensive and robust root system, and stays vegetative throughout the growing season.

      Melquatra Italian Ryegrass - Seeding Rate: 10-15 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 190,000/lb

      • Medium maturity

      • Excellent disease resistance

      • Features long and wide leaves with high sugar content

      • Our select option for maximum forage quality

      Meroa Italian Ryegrass - Seeding Rate: 10-15 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 190,000/lb

      • Late maturity

      • Features exceptional regrowth

      • Our top yielding variety in our local trials

      True Italian Ryegrass  - Seeding Rate: 10-15 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 190,000/lb

      • Early/medium maturity

      • An exceptional pasture option for rotation grazing

      • Adaptable and suitable over a variety of soil types

    • A cross between Italian Ryegrass and fescue, capitalizing on the strengths of each. Like Italian Rye, Festulolium is quick to establish, offers excellent feed value, and has a deep and robust root system. Its fescue genetics increase its adaptability and hardiness, allowing it to live up to 3 years and withstand harsh conditions throughout both summer and winter.

      Spring Green Festulolium

      • Early maturity

      • Effective in a wide arange of forage systems

      • Works as an excellent starter grass in perennial mixes

    • Sorghum is an exceptionally tolerant crop to heat and drought, making it an option worth considering in many forage systems. It is mostly used as a silage crop in Alberta, but can also be baled or grazed. Sorghum excels in warm soil conditions, and the majority of growth comes in mid-to-late summer when other crops slow down.

      Supra Sweet Sorghum - Seeding Rate: 8-10 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 15,000/lb

      • Late maturity

      • Our premier sorghum option with outstanding yield potential

      • Features excellent tillering capacity, allowing stands to thicken throughout the year

      Supra 70 Sorghum - Seeding Rate: 8-10 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 15,000/lb

      • Early maturity - 70 days

      • Excellent yield potential relative to maturity

      • Can be planted as late as mid-July

      KGS5295 MS Sorghum - Seeding Rate: 12-15 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 15,000/lb

      • Very early male sterile forage sorghum

      • High sugar content for high energy value and feed conversion

      • Male sterile allows for optimum carbohydrate build up without sending sugars to the seed head

    • Sudan grass is another exceptionally heat tolerant option for forage production that is similar to sorghum but fits a sligjtly different niche. It offers significantly more gregrowth, tends to dry down faster for haying, and is a shorter plant with a more fibrous composition.

      Supra Sudan Grass - Seeding Rate: 20 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 20,000/lb

      • A great option for hay or grazing

      • Shorter plant with great regrowth

      Piper Sudan Grass - Seeding Rate: 20 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 20,000/lb

      • Fine stem Sudan Grass for high quality multi cut hay production

      • Fast emergence and growth

      KGS9311 DS BMR Sorghum Sudan Grass - Seeding Rate: 15-30 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 20,000/lb

      • BMR trait Sorghum Sudan Grass infers reduced fiber and better forage digestibility

      • Dry stalks make for faster dry down when used for hay production

      • Excellent leaf to stem ratio

    • Seeding Rate: 5 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 1,300,000/lb

      Teff establishes rapidly in warm soils and produces very palatable forage with good digestibility and moderate protein, making it suitable for hay, greenfeed, or grazing. Its fine stems allow it to dry quickly for hay, and it is often favoured for horse hay 

    • Millet is a warm season annual crop that offers a reliable, low-risk option for forage production, particularly in hot and dry conditions. It establishes quickly, uses water efficiently, and performs well when cool-season forages struggle during mid- to late-summer heat. Millet is well suited for greenfeed and grazing and provides flexible managerment, good forage quality, and dependable production in short-season environments.

      Foxtail Millet - Seeding Rate: 20-25 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 213,000/lb

      • Very short season (45-60 days)

      • Excellent drought resistance and resilience

      Proso Millet - Seeding Rate: 20-25 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 80,000/lb

      • Medium maturity

      • Slightly higher yield potential than foxtail

      • Zero prussic acid risk

      Pearl Millet - Seeding Rate: 15-20 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 80,000/lb

      • Longer season, highest yield potential for millet

      • Provides re-growth potential

      • Excels under irrigation

    • Including clover species in an annual forage production system offers several significant advantages. Although it's not commomn in Alberta to plant clovers as a pure stand, they are an excellent addition to most annual forage mixtures an cover crop systems for several reasons. Namely, clovers are a significant source of crude protein, can fix nitrogen into the soil, and can increase soil organic matter due to its low C/N ratio.

      Frosty Berseem Clover - Seeding Rate: 6-12 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 134,000/lb

      • Exhibits exceptional cold tolerance

      • Reasonably low bloating

      • Provides multiple cuts throughout the growing season

      • A standout in yield through local trials

      Fixation Balansa Clover - Seeding Rate: 3-7 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 325,000/lb

      • Deep taproot legume with high nitrogen fixing potential

      • Prostrate growth provides ground cover and fills a niche within mixes

      • Ideal in regenerative systems due to soil health benefits

      Enhance Persian Clover - Seeding Rate: 4-8 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 207,000/lb

      • Drought tolerant variety - suitable in dryland production

      • Tolerates a wide range of soil types

      • Exhibits improved root development speed

      Kentucky Pride Crimson Clover - Seeding Rate: 15-20 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 150,000/lb

      • Late maturing with high yield potential and excellent cold tolerance

      • Strong pollinator supplement

    • Hairy Vetch is another excellent cool season annual legume option with high yield potential, crude protein content, and nitrogen fixing capabilities. Hairy vetch is a fast-establishing species that produces large amounts of biomass. It is excellent in mixtures, as it excels when it can use up-right structured species as a trellis, such as Triticale.

      Purple Bounty Hairy Vetch - Seeding Rate: 10-15 lbs/acre | Seed Count: 12,000/lb

      • An early maturing and flowering variety

      • Bred for high nitrogen fixation capacity

      • Provides increased biomass over common varieties

    • Seeding Rate: 10-60 lbs/acre  Seed Count: 3,500/lb

      Peas are an excellent fit in many annual forage mixtures and are very well suited to Southern Alberta's climate. They excel in hot and dry conditions, provide high levels of starch and protein, and exhibit excellent palatability and digestibility. Grown in mixtures alongside cereal crops, peas significantly increase forage value for silage, greenfeed, or grazing.

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