Economy Mixtures

 

Ingredients

Seeding Rate

Economy Hay Mixture

50% Sunrise Brand Timothy
40% Alfalfa
10% Double Cut Red Clover 

18 lbs. per acre.

80/20 Alfalfa & Timothy Mixture

80% Alfalfa
20% Sunrise Brand Timothy 

18 lbs. per acre.

70/30 Alfalfa & Timothy Mixture

70% Alfalfa
30% Sunrise Brand Timothy 

18 lbs. per acre.

Economy Pasture Mixture

45% Sunrise Brand Timothy
15% Triumph Meadow Fescue
15% Festulolium
10% Orchardgrass
10% Carlton Bromegrass
5% White Clover 

20-25 lbs. per acre.
 

*Available with coarse seed separate 


Cow Lowland Pasture Horse in Pasture Grass Hay Lowland
 

SS Forage Supreme Hay Mixtures

 

Ingredients

Seeding Rate

SS Forage King BR Mixture

The legendary branch rooted trait combined with a proven timothy for optimum yields under less than ideal soil conditions and variable drainage. 

80% Anchor Brand Alfalfa
20% Tuukka Timothy 

18-20 lbs. per acre.

SS Forage King Merit Mixture

A premium dairy hay mixture combining a first class multifoliate alfalfa with a proven timothy for peak production under optimum conditions. 

80% Merit Brand Alfalfa
20% Tuukka Timothy 

18-20 lbs. per acre.

SS Long Term Hay Mixture

A grass based hay mixture with 25% alfalfa making it also suitable for pasture. 

Produces very dense stand of grasses early for has as 1st cut with excellent regrowth for either another hay cut or excellent low bloat risk pasture. 

Excellent disease resistance and winter hardiness for long term rotation.  If you require coarse seed separate, see Combining Grass and Alfalfa Mixes to create your own mix by varying seeding rate.

25% Anchor Brand Alfalfa
25% Sunrise Brand Timothy
10% Festulolium
10% HLR Orchardgrass Blend
15% Rustler Tall Fescue
15% Carlton Bromegrass 

20-22 lbs. per acre.

Tractor Sheep Grazing

SS Multi-Purpose Mixture

A strong alfalfa mix with a diverse blend of grasses offering adaptability for dry hay or haylage. Choose alfalfa best suited for your farming operation based on local climate, soil conditions as well as livestock being fed. The flexibility of this mixture can make it an excellent haylage or dry hay for any livestock operation.

Available with either Escalade BR, TH2, REBOUND 6XT or Merit alfalfa.  

80% Alfalfa
8% STF-43 Tall Fescue Blend
7% Festulolium
5% Tuukka Timothy 

20 lbs. per acre.

SS Super Hay Pasture Mixture

A premium quality hay pasture mixture. Formulated with fine seeded species for easier planting.

  • Premium high yielding grass/alfalfa mixture.
  • Varieties chosen have performed well in OMAFRA trials. 

45% Merit Brand Alfalfa
36% Sunrise Brand Timothy
7% Rustler Tall Fescue
7% Festulolium
3% Cert. Double Cut Red Clover
2% Ladino Clover 

18-20 lbs. per acre.

SS Supreme Haylage Mixture

Combining our highest yielding and digestible alfalfa with the best quality blend of fescues for maximum performance. This combination of meadow and tall fescue has excellent regrowth to provide grasses in every cut for a consistent TMR mix for your livestock. The effective fiber and increased digestibility from NutriFiber will improve butterfat and milk yield generating the highest revenue per acre.

90% REBOUND 6XT Alfalfa
10% Milkway Fescue Blend 

20 lbs. per acre.

SS Forage Supreme Pasture Mixtures

 

Ingredients

Seeding Rate

SS Frost Seeding Pasture Mixture

For rejuvenating forages to restore productivity and enhance pasture or hay fields by overseeding or frost seeding for long term renovation. The ideal time to frost seed is in the very early spring. 

10% Birdsfoot Trefoil
15% Huia White Clover
15% Double Cut Red Clover
20% Orchardgrass
25% Mathilde Perennial Ryegrass
15% Sunrise Brand Timothy

5-8 lbs. per acre.

SS Horse Pasture and Paddock Mixture

A broad based grass mixture designed to produce fresh, tender forage throughout the grazing season for all types of horses.

  • NEWLY REFORMULATED ALL GRASS mixture that will tolerate close grazing and trampling
  • CLOVER FREE mixture reducing the risk of photosensitivity
  • HIGHLY PALATABLE grasses that remain productive throughout the grazing season
  • Contains ENDOPHYTE-FREE soft leaf tall fescue, enhancing palatability and safety for brood mares
  • Formulated for UNIFORM GRAZING
  • Ideal for establishing new pastures or as an overseeding mixture

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15% Mathilde Perennial Ryegrass
15% Smooth Graze Tall Fescue Brand
30% Sunset II Brand Timothy 
5% Sundown Orchardgrass
15% Forage Type Kentucky Bluegrass
20% Festulolium 

25 lbs. per acre.

SS Lowland Pasture MIixture

Specially designed for lower ground that will produce grass hay for livestock and productive pasture throughout the entire growing season.

  • Designed for heavier, wetter soil types where alfalfa may be difficult to establish. 

35% Sunrise Brand Timothy
20% Rustler Tall Fescue
15% Festulolium
15% Triumph Meadow Fescue
10% Huia White Clover
5% Double Cut Red Clover 

18-20 lbs. per acre.

SS Pastureland Mixture

A quality pasture mixture that can be used for hay.
All seed will go through fine grass seed attachment on drill.

  • Ideal for optimum palatability and digestibility.
  • Sunken crown Survivor Alfalfa to protect plants from intensive grazing.
  • Add coarse grass mix if a higher grass content is desired. 

20% Revive Alfalfa
25% Merit Brand Alfalfa
35% Sunrise Brand Timothy
5% Ladino Clover
5% Birdsfoot Trefoil
10% Rustler Tall Fescue

18-20 lbs. per acre.

SS Permanent Pasture Mixture

For long term pasture that will last for years if properly fertilized and maintained. A grass/legume blend to provide productive pasture throughout the entire grazing season.

  • Versatile pasture mixture suited for a variety of soil types and conditions. 
  • Coarse Seed Available Separate on Request

30% Orchardgrass
20% Rustler Tall Fescue
20% Mathilde Perennial Ryegrass
25% Sunrise Brand Timothy
5% Huia White Clover 

20 lbs. per acre.

SS Sheep & Goat Pasture Mixture

A versatile pasture mixture that provides grasses and clover maturing at differing times to always provide quality forage for sheep and goats.

  • Contains soft leaf fescues and grasses making it extremely palatable. 

20% Sunset II Brand Timothy
20% Rustler Tall Fescue
20% Mathilde Perennial Ryegrass
5% Huia White Clover
10% Orchardgrass
10% Festulolium
10% Forage Type Kentucky Bluegrass
5% Creeping Red Fescue 

20 lbs. per acre.

SS Forage Supreme Grass Mixtures

 

Ingredients

Seeding Rate

SS Miracle Mixture

A blend of medium and late maturing varieties that will work well for haylage or dry hay. Much better regrowth than timothy or smooth bromegrass. 

25% Prairie Bromegrass
25% Carlton Bromegrass
25% STF-43 Tall Fescue Blend
25% Festulolium 

25-30 lbs. per acre
straight 4-8 lbs.
per acre with
12-16 lbs. Alfalfa or
Alfalfa/Timothy Mix 

SS Mystic Mixture

A quick establishing mix that makes an excellent addition to alfalfa or red clover for haylage. Good choice for a 2-3 year stand. 

20% Prairie Bromegrass
15% Carlton Bromegrass
10% STF-43 Tall Fescue Blend
10% HLR Orchardgrass Blend
20% BG-24T Perennial Ryegrass Blend
25% Festulolium 

25-30 lbs. per acre
straight 4-8 lbs.
per acre with
12-16 lbs. Alfalfa or Alfalfa/Timothy Mix 

Wildlife Mixtures

HIGH QUALITY FOOD PLOTS

Ingredients

Seeding Rate

Wildlife Brassica Blend - 5 lb. pail

  • Annual forage for deer
  • Seed mid to late Summer, or plant in Spring for earlier grazing
  • High in protein and carbohydrates
  • Designed to feed in late fall 

34% Purple Top Turnip
33% Kale
33% Dwarf Essex Rapeseed

5 lbs. per acre

Perennial Grazing Blend - 12 lb. pail

  • Perennial forage for deer
  • Frost seed, late Spring / early Summer planting
  • Grazing options all season long
  • Fast regrowth

15% Alfalfa
10% Fixation Balansa Clover
10% Frosty Berseem Clover
5% Alsike Clover
5% Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
10% Chicory 
20% BG-24T Perennial Ryegrass Blend
20% Oats
5% Purple Top Turnip

24 lbs. per acre

 

Annual Wild Game and Deer Blend - 25 lb. bag

  • Seed late Spring / early Summer
  • Ideal for wild game birds and deer
  • Provides protection from predators
50% Barley
23% Yellow Peas
2% Purple Top Turnip
5% Frosty Berseem Clover
5% Crimson Clover
5% Peredovik Sunflowers 
5% Japanese Millet
5% WGF Sorghum
50 lbs. per acre
 

Specialty Mixtures

 

Ingredients

Seeding Rate

Grass Waterway Mixture

A long-term mix designed to hold the soil in waterways and embankments. Contains annual ryegrass for fast establishment, fescues for long-term root growth to hold the soil in place and white clover that can survive in wetter locations. 

20% Creeping Red Fescue
50% Tall Fescue
5% White Clover
25% Annual Ryegrass 

30-60 lbs. per acre.

SS Supreme Orchard Mixture

55% Tall Fescue
25% Creeping Red Fescue
5% Huia White Clover
15% Annual Ryegrass
40-60 lbs. per acre.

Non-Cropland Pollinator Mix

Develop a pollinator habitat on non-crop portions of land using this diverse mix of annual and perennial forages that appeals to a range of pollinators

• Designed to provide food and promote a favourable environment for pollinating species
• Intended for larger areas where a low maintenance cover is desired
• Ideal for seeding under tree lines and field edges where modern equipment cannot efficiently work the land
• A variety of species to promote as many flowering plants over the longest length of time possible
• Plot can be mowed in the establishment year to control weeds if needed before the desired species get too tall
• Performs well in a variety of soil conditions
• Not recommended for small flower beds 

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Alfalfa, White Clover,
Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover, Crimson Clover, Chicory, Sunflower, Alsike Clover, Single Cut Red Clover, Double Cut Red Clover, Brown Mustard, Groundbreaker Radish 

20 lbs. per acre.


INCREASE GRASSES IN YOUR HAY

By Combining a Grass Mix and an Alfalfa Mix

Example #1 Beef & Sheep Hay Example #2 Horse Hay
17.5 lbs. / acre SS Forage King Merit Mixture (fine seed) 10 lbs. / acre SS Forage King Merit Mixture (fine seed)
  2.5 lbs. / acre SS Miracle Mixture (coarse seed) 10 lbs. / acre SS Miracle Mixture (coarse seed)

Combined Mix:
70% Alfalfa
18% Timothy 
  6% Bromegrass
  3% STF-43 Tall Fescue Blend
  3% Festulolium

Combined Mix:
40% Alfalfa
10% Timothy 
25% Bromegrass
12.5% STF-43 Tall Fescue Blend
12.5% Festulolium

Things to consider when planting high ratio grass mixtures:

  • Increase seeding rate when adding coarse grass to alfalfa mixtures because coarse seeds have fewer seeds per lbs.
  • Keep the alfalfa content to above 60% for an alfalfa stand which won't require Nitrogen fertilization.
  • Fertilize grass stands with Nitrogen between each cut to improve yield and quality.

 

SS Custom Forage Mixtures

Our forage specialists will help you to select the best varieties to formulate a forage or cover crop mixture specific to your needs and goals, creating high quality blends for local soil and climate conditions.  Coarse seed can be kept separate if needed to make planting easier (please specify when ordering). 

 

*Please Note: All legumes (alfalfas, clovers and trefoils) in our stock mixtures have a pre-inoculated seed coating to aid in germination and stand establishment.  

 

 

 

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Effective Fiber for Dairy Rations: Nutrifiber

NutriFiber 

The Highly Digestible Fiber for Dairy Rations 

NutriFiber technology was developed by Barenbrug for today’s modern dairy farmer. This trait has been incorporated into forage grasses developed for on-farm production. NutriFiber provides the highly digestible effective fiber today’s cows need. NutriFiber forages are ideal components for balancing the rations of high producing dairy cows.

Typically Total Mixed Ration diets that are designed for maximum milk production are high in Non Fiber Carbohydrates (starches and sugars) which can lead to Sub-Acute Rumen Acidosis. 

The NutriFiber Advantage:

Nearly 10 years of research have gone into the development of NutriFiber technology. NutriFiber has been tested and proven in university research trials and on progressive dairy farms around the world.

 All fiber is NOT created equal! Unlike many fiber sources, NutriFiber is highly digestible. The Total Tract Neutral Detergent Fiber Digestibility (TTNDFd) index developed at the University of Wisconsin permits comparisons of fiber analyses from different forages. The TTNDFd provides better predictions of milk production from fiber analysis and shows that NutriFiber forages supply higher energy due to their high fiber digestibility. 

Please contact us for more information on Nutrifiber.

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