Forage Focus Friday - Filly Forage Kentucky Bluegrass

by Speare Seeds

Filly Forage Kentucky Bluegrass

A New Workhorse Bluegrass

Filly Forage Kentucky Bluegrass is now available. This multi-purpose work-horse bluegrass is ideal for medium and low maintenance situations. Filly has robust coverage, exceptional disease resistance, as well as resistance to drought and summer stress.

Key Features

  • Drought tolerant
  • Low maintenance
  • Cold tolerant
  • Disease resistant
  • Endophyte-free
  • Grazing tolerant

Filly has performed quite well in the University of Kentucky's forage trial, exhibiting 98% stand after four years and providing high yield performance.

Applications 

Filly is a great option for horse pasture and other forage mixtures.  This forage Kentucky Bluegrass is highly palatable and endophyte-free making it safe for livestock and wildlife.  As a dense sod-forming species, Filly helps to increase pasture density to withstand hoof traffic and has excellent grazing tolerance.  Being drought tolerant and low maintenance, it can increase resilience to summer stresses.  This variety is also a great addition to erosion control mixtures due to its tight knit nature. 

Choose Filly for your horse pasture and other forage mixes, to increase pasture density and resilience to summer stresses.

Seeding rate:  Alone 18 – 25 lb. / acre; Mix 5 – 10 lb. / acre

Contact one of our forage reps for more information.

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