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Cover Crop and Forage Seed Sources
Legumes, grasses and other species for improving pastures
and building soil.
Advanta Seeds -- Specialty
pasture grasses -- annual and perennial ryegrasses, orchardgrass, fescue,
festulolium.
Albert Lea Seed House -- Online listing
of their extensive line of small grains, alfalfas (including annuals), clovers
(berseem, reds, ladino, kura, crimson, alsike, white), sweetclovers, trefoils,
cool-season and warm-season pasture grasses, chicory and other specialty
forages, turnips, buckwheat, pea mixes, and more. Order their
catalog for full descriptions.
Albright Seed Company --
Specializes in species adapted to particular California bioregions. See
Erosion Control Ground
Covers and Pasture for a good selection of alfalfa, clovers (strawberry,
rose, crimson, sub, white), lana vetch, grasses, grains and more. Online
ordering.
Amaizing
graize -- Baldridge Hybrid
corn varieties bred specifically to fill the summer pasture slump.
Ampac Seed Company -- A
full-line of cool-season grasses and legumes including clovers (kura, white,
ladino, red, sub, crimson), alfalfas, vetches, winter peas, brassicas, timothy,
orchardgrasses, perennial and annual ryegrasses, bromes, chicory, fescues, and
Pasture Perfect(R) mixtures.
Andrews Seed Company -- Specializes in
alfalfa and red clover.
Arbico -- Cover crop
offerrings include Austrian winter peas, fall mix including vetch, annual mixes
with and without ryegrass, white clover, and a mix that attracts beneficial
insects. Available in garden-size amounts for low-cost experimentation. Be
sure to explore the rest of the
Arizona Biological Control
site IPM info and supplies such as beneficial insects. See especially their
Pest Problem Solver Guide.
Barenbrug
-- Site lists wide range of forage grasses and legumes including clovers (white,
red, Persian, berseem, crimson, subterranean), alfalfa, common vetch, field peas
and beans, yellow lupine, trefoils. Toll-free number for more information.
Cascade International Seed Company
-- Mostly specialty forages such as Gala and Stocker bromes, forage plantain,
Will and Prestige white clovers, Lafayette perennial ryegrass.
Dawson Seed Company -- Canadian
company carries Bigbee berseem, alfalfas, wide variety of grasses.
Ernst Conservation Seed -- Warm- and
cool-season grasses, wetland and woodland species, wildflowers and more.
McDonald Ag Corporation --
Wholesale seed list includes
Tibbee, Chief and Dixie crimson clovers, red clovers, orchardgrasses,
ryegrasses.
Mark Seed Company --
Alfalfas, grasses and grains
includes orchardgrasses, ryegrasses, fescue, native warm-season grasses,
trefoil, crownvetch, more. Email or toll-free order placement.
Modern Forage Systems --
The Seed Shop features
wide range of cutting-edge forages -- ryegrasses, orchardgrasses, fescues,
Matua prairie grass, turnips, rape, kale, white clovers, chicory and more.
Online ordering.
Peaceful Valley Farm Supply --
Bountiful cover crop offerings -- more than 100. Online ordering.
Pennington Seed --
Forage list
includes Austrian winter pea, lespedezas, fescue, millet, bahiagrass.
Premium Seed --
Products include Nitro
alfalfa, berseem clover, kura clover, forages (including chicory) and wildlife
blends. See online price list
for more offerings, including, alsike, ladino, red and white clovers,
yellow-blossom sweet clover, trefoils, vetch, field peas, buckwheat, sudax,
warm-season grasses and more.
Richardson Seed
Company -- Canadian company specializes in species for forest
revegetation. Carries grasses and legumes including alsike, berseem, red and
white clovers, sweetclovers, sainfoin
Schultz Seed Company --
Clovers (medium red, mammoth, alsike) and other legumes including hairy vetch,
buckwheat, sorghum-sudan, warm- and cool-season grasses, and more.
Sharp Bros. Seed Co. -- Specializing
in prairie plants. Great selection of warm- and cool-season grasses, legumes,
forbs and wildflowers, shrubs.
Trelay Seeds -- Common
forages and mixes including brome, orchardgrass, reed canarygrass, ryegrass,
timothy, birdsfoot trefoil, and red , alsike and ladino clovers.
Triumph Seed -- Warm-season
annual forages and
covers including sorghum-sudan hybrids, forage sorghum and pearl millet.
Willamette Seed -- Cool-season forages.
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