Filly Cold Tolerant, Winter Hardy Forage Kentucky Bluegrass For Pasture

Filly Forage Kentucky Bluegrass

Specifications

Latin Name: Poa pratensis

Season: Perennial

Height: 12 - 36 inches

Environment: Full sun to partial shade

USDA Zones: 2 - 7

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.. This is excellent for low maintenance type of grass or turf.

This choice provides food and cover for wildlife not to mention it has a hearty ability to grazed down to the bottom of the stem. It is also found that growing this will help build soil and give great cover as a rotation crop. In the end this helps build soils and hopefully give more productive pastures or farmland as a proper crop rotation program. It's been utilized in pastures in the Midwest for many years. It is often mixed with other grasses. 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.

  • Very quick establishment
  • Early maturing
  • Good persistence & winter hardiness
  • Growth for a bluegrass is considered medium.
  • Excellent Resistance to crown rust & other diseasers
  • High yielding
  • Drought 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, and rapid recovery in the fall.

Seeding Rate: 15 - 20 lbs per acre