CONSERVATION PRODUCTS

 

The soil we farm has been described as a gift from our ancestors, a responsibility entrusted to us and a legacy for future generations yet unborn. Such a profound description surely focuses on the attention and care this valued gift deserves. Yet, in the era of today’s competitive production demands, we may overlook what the soil and overall care of our earth truly merits.

Greenfield Mix

The ideal conservation mixture, Greenfield also works for livestock pasturing. The mixture is a combination of white clover, Feeder perennial ryegrass, festorina tall fescue, creeping red fescue, chewings fescue, timothy and Kentucky bluegrass. The seeding rate is 20 kg/acre for buffer strips, and 40-50 kg/acre for around ponds and slope stabilization. Ideal for:

  • Planting around milk houses and barnyards, absorbing run off and wash water
  • Planting around waterways and ditches, protects from erosion, maintains original shape and structure
  • Planting along streams and ditch banks as a buffer zone to absorb pesticide and fertilizer

Plowdown Mix

Builds soil quality extremely well. Mixture PS 503 is a combination of double cut red clover and tetraploid annual (Italian) ryegrass. The seeding rate is 4-5 kg/acre. Mixture PS 501 is a combination of alfalfa, single cut red clover and tetraploid annual (Italian) ryegrass. This mixture can be seeded with wheat or spring cereals or used on its own where it goes to work producing biomass and the alfalfa taproots breaking through the plow layer. The red clover and ryegrasses produce abundant fibrous root mass to return to the soil. Seeding rate is 4-5 kg/acre. PS 502, a combination of double cut red clover and alfalfa, is also available.

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 • Conservation Seed Mix
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