Filly Kentucky Forage Bluegrass - A premiere forage-type bluegrass, Filly is an enhanced variety produced for its supreme yielding abilities and drought resiliance. Exhibiting robust coverage, exceptional disease resistance and a fine stem, Filly is your ideal addition for both dryland and irrigated pasture mixes. It is very palatable with underground rhizomes that combat the traffic of livestock and weather.  Filly is a prolific forage that produces excellent forage with highly digestible nutrients.

Filly is a versatile grass that can be used for grazing, silage, or hay.  It is excellent for planting alone or blended with other forage grasses.  This variety is suitable for all species of livestock.  It’s very persistent grass and with early spring maturation and great leaf yields. Filly Kentucky Bluegrass is rated as high yield, so this makes it great with tall growing mixes.  It is one of the hardiest forage varieties on the market.  It can survive below zero climates to hot summers.

• Very quick establishment
• Early maturing
• Good persistence & winter hardiness
• Growth for a bluegrass is considered medium
• Excellent resistance to crown rust & other diseases
• High yielding and palatability
• Drought and cold tolerant
• High grazing tolerance

High Nutritional Value: Filly provides high-quality nutrition similar to other cool-season grasses, with crude protein levels often between 15% and 20%.

Persistent & Durable: Evaluated by the University of Kentucky, Filly has shown excellent persistence in forage trials, including a 98% stand after four years.

Grazing & Hay Potential: While bluegrass is typically low-yielding for hay, Filly is bred to be more productive. It is highly palatable for horses and cattle and holds up well under intense grazing.

Resilience: It shows high disease resistance, good summer stress tolerance, rapid recovery in the fall and well as snow tolerance.

Seeding Rate: 25 - 30 lbs per acre