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In need of key insights from experienced wholesale seed suppliers? The Quality Seeds blog is your guide to keeping up-to-date on all things forage, turf, native plants, and erosion control! Whether you’re looking to improve the quality of feed for your livestock or find the most reliable strategy for creating the perfect lawn for your client, we’ve got you covered.

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  • Serious About Sod – Fall 2024
    With the increased cost of fertilizer, it is important to use fertilizer as efficiently as possible. Phosphorus is a very important nutrient in vegetative and root growth, energy transfer, nutrient uptake, and carbohydrate production in plants …
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    Improved Dairy Alfalfa-Grass Mixtures
    Suitable grass species and varieties can offer significant advantages when included in alfalfa-grass mixtures for dairy cows and milking goats as haylage, baleage or dry hay. These advantages include nutritional improvements in fibre digestibility, …
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    Alfalfa Weevil
    Alfalfa weevil can often be an issue in Ontario, particularly in south-western parts of the province. While outbreaks tend to be isolated, they can be severe and dramatically reduce forage yield and quality. Typically, alfalfa weevil do not reach …
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    First-Cut Haylage Harvest Timing
    A common question this time of year is “when is the best time to cut first-cut dairy haylage?” High quality, highly digestible forage is essential to balancing high producing dairy cow rations, and dairy farm profitability. Straight alfalfa …
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    Sudangrass & Sorghum-Sudangrass Forage Options
    Sudangrass and sorghum-sudangrass are warm-season annual grasses from the sorghum family. They are grown in the summer and have the potential to provide high yields of palatable, high quality forage when properly managed. Although rainfall is …
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    Check Alfalfa Stands For Winterkill & Winter Injury
    Alfalfa winterkill and severe winter injury are often potential concerns, that result in insufficient forage inventories and forage quality for the coming year. It is difficult to predict alfalfa winterkill, but some years there are more risk …
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    Sulphur On Alfalfa
    There are increasingly significant yield responses in Ontario when applying sulphur (S) to alfalfa and alfalfa-grass mixtures. Forage grasses also appear to have a yield response to adequate sulphur fertility. Consider sulphur in your forage …
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    Serious About Sod – Fall 2022
    With the increased cost of fertilizer, it is important to use fertilizer as efficiently as possible. Phosphorus is a very important nutrient in vegetative and root growth, energy transfer, nutrient uptake, and carbohydrate production in plants …
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  • A neatly manicured grass field with a checkerboard pattern, featuring "Serious About Sod - Spring 2022" and "Quality Seeds" text. No landmarks or historical buildings.

    Serious About Sod – Spring 2022
    The price of fertilizer is at record highs this year. There is some indication that fertilizer availability may be an issue at times during the growing season. Because of these two factors, we will need to extract the most efficient use of various …
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