Featured Grasses
Renk carries elite varieties of the following grasses:
Festulolium
Festulolium is a cross between Perennial Ryegrass and Meadow Fescue, giving it several very excellent qualities: ease of establishment, persistence, rapid regrowth, good disease resistance, season-long performance and high forage quality. Don’t let the long name put you off. If you need a grass, use Festolium.
Orchardgrass
A late maturing variety that keeps its quality when seeded with alfalfa. Also does extremely well when frost seeded into a thinning pasture.
Italian Ryegrass
Works well when seeding down with alfalfa at 3-5 lbs per acre. Very high palatability allows more milk per acre yields. Best as a cover crop.
Perennial Ryegrass
Ideal for long term pastures. High palatability and fast recovery allows for intensive grazing management and higher milk production.
Meadow Brome
Quicker to establish than smooth brome and provides higher yields of more palatable forage, especially in the seeding year.
Reed Canarygrass
A tall course perennial grass suited for wetter soils where other grasses will not survive. One of the earliest growing grasses in the Spring. Can work on drier soils.
Additional Forage Choices
BMR Soran
- Combines best of sorghum and sudan
- Sweet, juicy, palatable and highly digestable - cut at 24” to 30” height
- Use only on well-drained soils
- Resistant to iron deficiency, chlorosis and high magnesium soils
- Rapid growth rate, excellent recover y after cutting
- Great for grazing, greenchop and hay - DON’T graze at less than 24” tall
- WARNING: Wait 10 days after a frost before cutting to prevent prussic acid poisoning
- Seed at 30-35 lb/acre
- Plant when soil temperature is above 65 degrees F
Cardinal Red Clover
- Combines best of sorghum and sudan
- Ver y persistent
- Star ts strong and looks even better in second and third hay years
- Superior disease resistance
- Per forms better on poorer soils and wet soils than alfalfa
- Seed at 10-12 lb/acre by itself, or 2-3 lb/acre with alfalfa
- Adopted for low PH soils
Mountain Brand Pasture Mix
- Premium blend of alfalfa and grasses
25% Tru-Blue Brand Alfalfa
+20% Timothy
+10% Red Clover
+30% Springgreen
+15% Orchard Grass Festulolium
- Per fect for hilly pastures
- Provides high feed value from marginal land