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Performance Seed Featured Grasses

We carefully select and develop forage grasses to meet the diverse needs of farmers and ranchers. Whether you're looking for high-yield hay production, durable pasture solutions, or grasses that thrive in challenging conditions like drought, excess moisture, or saline soils, our lineup delivers exceptional forage quality, persistence, and adaptability. Our featured grasses provide superior digestibility, palatability, and resilience—ensuring better animal performance and long-term productivity.

    • Tall Fescue is one of the most versatile, under utilized forage grasses in our arsenal. Great for pasture or hay production, arid or flooded zones as well as high salt levels, tall fescue is a key part of our forage program. Selected varieties of soft leaved tall fescue for high sugar and forage digestibility is our focus. High performance dairies have looked to high quality soft leaf tall fescue to improve herd health and overall animal performance.

      Silky SL Tall Fescue

      • A new elite high yielding tall fescue with exceptional soft leaf forage qualities. Use for high quality hay applications, commercial hay or dairy focus. Industry leading European germplasm.

      Elodie Tall Fescue

      • High quality soft leaf tall fescue

      Rustler Tall Fescue

      • Palatable and high yield with heat and drought tolerance.

    • Dividend VL Orchard Grass

      • Canadian Developed Variety with great winter hardiness and high quality.

      Diceros Orchard Grass

      • Late maturity for quality retention in alfalfa mixtures. European variety with excellent forage quality.

      Sundown Orchard Grass

      • Drought tolerant variety

    • Stratus Meadow Brome - New for 2025

      • Stratus was bred for higher forage yield and quality, improved plant health, strong summer growth, darker green color and late maturity. Stratus is an excellent Șhoice for intensive rotational grazing systems, either mixed with legumes or as a pure stand.

      Garrison Creeping Foxtail

      • Sod forming cool season grass with excellent forage quality. Persistent, well suited to saline areas and excess moisture.

      NewHy Green Wheat Grass - Relaunch in Canada in 2025

      • Hybrid wheat grass with strong rhizomes for excellent drought tolerance and persistence. Forage quality and yield are very good. Green wheat grass is one of the best choices under both saline and alkaline soils. Excellent palatability and winter hardiness - this is a strong option for any long lived productive forage stand.

      Hercules Brand Tall Wheat Grass

      • High yielding and persistent high quality selection of Tall Wheatgrass. The most salt and alkaline tolerant grass available, Hercules is well used for hay and pasture. Very large plants that can exceed six feet in height.

    • Raskila Meadow Fescue

      • Meadow fescue is similar in most respects to tall fescue, but often exhibits even higher levels of digestibility and flood tolerance. Complimentary to mixtures containing tall fescue.

      Spring Green Festulolium

      • Meadow Fescue cross with Italian Ryegrass, Spring Green has the nutritive, palatability, and digestive qualities of ryegrass, while maintaining the durability and drought resistance of meadow fescue. Festulolium has a place in both annual and perennial blends with its quick germination and produces longer under higher summer temperatures. Spring Green is the best option for establishment year productivity of any grass we have tested.

      Oro Verde Perennial Rye Grass

      • Forage type rye grass with excellent establishment characteristics it was developed for colder climates and drought 

      • Highly nutritious low growing grazing grass species.

      Ginger Forage Type Kentucky Blue Grass

      • Highly productive with early spring green up. Forage type for high yield - excellent for ground cover. 

      • Low grazing tolerance.

    • Timothy is one of the most popular forage grasses in the Prairies. It is well adapted to high moisture and poor drainage but thrives under good management. Domestically, Timothy is well suited for horse feed, close up dairy hay, and an excellent starter for feeding calves. At Performance Seed we help to power our export partners by providing Timothy varieties that are adapted to our production systems, resulting in world class quality for customers around the world.

      Conquest Timothy

      • High yielding export quality Timothy 

      • Early Maturity for 2 cuts 

      • Industry leading early season Timothy 

      • Replacement for Derby 

      • Allied Seed tests have reported 114% yield advantage over Richmond

      Derby Timothy

      • Classic early maturity export variety

      KY Early Timothy - Coming soon

      • Bred for early maturity to pair with alfalfa harvest 

      • Mega yield increase reported over check (Clair)Excellent regrowth

      Ensure Timothy - Full launch 2025

      • Medium-early maturity 

      • Excellent stay green for prolonged quality retention. 

      • Game changer in forage quality.

      Ovation Timothy

      • Medium maturity - 5-7 days later than early varieties 

      • Very leafy 

      • Strong re-growth

      Trygvee Timothy

      • Late maturing variety

      • Excellent for pastures or single cut export production

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