CRP, Cover Crop, and Forage Seed
CRP Seed
GRASSES
Tri State Seed offers CRP-approved seed blends and can help you select the right mix to meet your conservation goals and program requirements.
How it works:
- Reach out to a sales team member at TSS and provide your specific CRP Seeding Implementation Requirements including acre size, selected species, and seeding rates (PLS).
- Receive a quote, and give specifications on packaging, name, etc.
- Seed will be ready for pickup/delivery within requested timeline, as time and availability allows.
- TSS provides all of the information that is typically requested by FSA to finish qualifying paperwork. If at any point you find yourself needing copies of old invoices, seed tags, etc.- reach out and we will do our best to help you!
TEFF GRASS
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TIMOTHY
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ORCHARDGRASS
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The primary use of orchardgrass is for pasture and hay forage production. It is highly palatable to all classes of livestock. It is one of the best forage grasses for use in the Northern states under intensive rotational grazing systems.
IRRIGATED PASTURE BLEND
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A premium blend of Medow Brome grass, Festuolium, Tall fescue, Perennial ryegrass, and Orchardgrass.
Recommended seeding rate: Drill @ 15-18 lbs./acre. (x2 for broadcast.)
DRYLAND FORAGE BLEND
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This blend of drought tolerant varieties provides a high productivity pasture with quick establishment. Best in low summer rainfall asreas. A blanced blend of Intermediate wheatgrass, Crested wheatgrass, Pubescent wheatgrass, Russian wildrye, and Orchardgrass.
Recommended seeding rate: Drill @ 10-12 lbs./acre. (x2 for broadcast.)
RYEGRASS
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Annual ryegrass is an introduced cool-season bunch grass from Europe. Vegetative stems grow erect at first but may grow more horizontally as the plant produces a seed head. Natural reseeding is common
HUNTER
dryland areas
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This game forage is a superb grain-based mix of triticale forage grain, oats, forage turnips and annual forage clovers. Plant in the spring or fall in most areas to grow palatable, high-protein forage all season.
COVER CROP: Brasicas, Legumes, Mustards
RADISH
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Also known as cultivated radish, radish, oilseed radish, forage radish. Radishes are commonly used in cover crop mixtures and sometimes as monocultures. If planted early, quick growth can help suppress fall-emerging weeds.
TURNIP
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Forages of the Brassica family are very useful for extending the grazing season when other forages are less productive. Brassicas can provide higher crude protein and digestibility at half the cost of hay or conserved forages.
CLOVER
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This mix can be used for grazing, a cutting of hay, wildlife food plots, or simply as a cover crop for a season or two.
HAIRY VETCH
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Harvest later than wheat. Maximum vetch kill when crop is in full bloom. If the vetch is strictly a cover crop, can be plowed under or killed with herbicides or a roller-crimper in a no-till setting, to form a weed suppressing mat.
COMMON VETCH
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Common vetches are an annual pasture/forage/grain legume, extremely palatable at all growth stages, from early green shoots, as dry matter/hay or silage through to seedpods and seeds over summer
HUNTER- Forage Brassica
WINFRED- Forage Brassica
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A drought tolerant, winter active rape that provides multiple grazing opportunities over its growing season.
PURPLE TOP
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This leguminous forb produces excellent forage for livestock and wildlife. It is high in protein and highly palatable, although it may cause bloat. This species will decrease and disappear under persistent overgrazing.
CALIENTE ROJO
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Newest mustard release with purplish/red leaves and the highest glucosinolate production currently available. Vigorous growth with high leaf biomass and extensive root system. Good choice for organic or conventional growers with high disease and/or nematode pressure.
CUTLASS MUSTARD
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This product is grown in an area where Wheat, Mustard and Peanuts are commonly cultivated either nearby or inter-cropped.