High Yield Potential
No matter what you feed your livestock, Trelay has a hard-working forage product that fits your needs. Our genuine partnership with you provides the know-how and on-going service to get your forage from the field to the feed. Every step of the process is geared toward efficiency and the highest yield potential.
Choose the Trelay Forage that Meets Your Goals
Bluegrass
- Good regrowth potential
- Winterhardiness is good
- Good ease of establishment
- Fair drought or flooding tolerance
- Good persistence
Red Clover
- Likes fertile, well-drained soils
- Earliest legume to establish in sod
- Usually sown with small grains
- Fall graze/plow down
- Disease-controlled by resistant variety
Festulolium
- Establishes quickly
- Produces good forage in spring
- Combines winterhardiness with forage quality
Reed Canarygrass
- Nearly perfect forage grass
- Highly palatable
- High yield potential; ability to take multiple cuttings
- Stands up to wet/drought conditions
Ryegrass
- Tall pasture grass
- Easy to establish
- Adaptable to wide variety of soils and climates
- Can tolerate limited exposure to high temperatures and low moisture
Timothy
- Perennial bunch grass
- Adapts to cool, humid conditions
- Shallow roots, does not form sod
- Likes heavier soil
- Generally grown with legumes
- Good 1st year growth
- Disease resistant; winterhardy
Bromegrass
- Perennial, sod grass w/ rhizomes
- Best in pasture and hay mixes
- Grows best in cool temperatures
- Likes best, well-drained soils
- Forms sod to control erosion
- Excellent palatability
White Clover
- Use in pasture mixes
- Likes cool temperatures and wet soils; excellent for lowlands
- Long-time favorite of livestock producers (ease of establishment and forage quality)
- Tillers profusely
- Giant white clover (Ladino) spreads by surface runners rooting at the joints
Orchardgrass
- Perennial bunch grass
- Use in intense forage programs
- Adapts to well-drained soils
- Shade tolerant
- Tolerates heat and drought
- Excellent 1st year growth
- High palatability
Sorghum
- Sudangrass hybrid: used for forage as grazing or greenchopping
- BMR Sorghum-sudangrass hybrid: highly digestible forage; can produce extreme tonnage with warm temperatures and adequate rainfall
- Hybrid forage sorghum: can be used in conjunction with corn for silage or wildlife food
Small Grains
- Barley, oats, triticale & peas, barley & peas
- Use for forages, grains, cover crops