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Tailored Varieties for Your Soil, Climate and Forage Goals

Finding the right alfalfa variety is key to maximizing your farm's potential. Whether you’re focused on hay production, pasture grazing, or improving soil nitrogen for future crops, choosing a variety tailored to your specific goals and conditions is essential. With options designed for varying climates, soil types, and disease pressures, Speare Seeds offers high-yielding, resilient alfalfa solutions to help you achieve your goals.

Choosing alfalfa variety is an involved decision where you need to identify and understand your overall goals.

What should you consider when choosing Alfalfa?

• Intended Use 
  • Hay – look at stand persistence, yield potential and lodging resistance
  • Haylage – look for quick regrowth, high feed quality and high yield
  • Pasture-type – focus on grazing tolerance and regrowth
• Climate 
  • Fall dormancy determines when a variety goes dormant in the fall / winter (the lower the number, the more dormant the variety).
  • Winter hardiness measures the alfalfa plant’s ability to survive winter.  Winter-injured plants will have less growth at the time of the first cutting, producing a lower yield.
• Feed Quality 
  • Superior digestibility for healthier livestock and optimal performance.
• Disease Resistance 
  • Ensuring you have a pest-resistant alfalfa can be the most economical and effective way to combat disease and maintain yield and feed quality for many years.
• Yield Potential 
  • An important economic factor for growers.

Speare Seeds offers a range of varieties designed to meet specific objectives.

REBOUND AA Alfalfa

• Multifoliate with excellent disease resistance
• Early spring growth with rapid regrowth
• Ideal for 4-5 cut haylage system
• Exceptional yield with highest digestibility
• More milk/acre than traditional varieties

Escalade BR Alfalfa

• Branch rooted, well suited for wetter or heavier clay soils
• High forage yield
• 35/35 Disease resistance index
• High resistance to heaving

TH2 Alfalfa

• High multifoliate expression
• Rapid regrowth and less replanting
• Superior disease resistance
• Winter hardy

Supreme Brand:  Merit Brand Alfalfa

• Blend of tap and branch root alfalfa
• Well suited for variable soil conditions
• Economical with known traits
• Excellent yield in 2-3 cut system

PLH Alfalfa

• Potato Leafhopper resistant for areas prone to this insect every year which can cause considerable yield lost. 

 

Please contact one of our forage experts for more information or to discuss your needs.