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Cover Crops

We can do custom blends of cover crops or The TG premixed blends for soil rehabilitation, silage or grazing cover crops. These blends can be used as a saline area cover crop or a smother blend cover crop. At the bottom of this page we have a flyer showing cover crop blends and options from Imperial Seed

Below a field was seeded mid to late August to a mix of tillage radish, buckwheat, clover, fall rye, and phacelia

TG MIXTURES

TG EXTEND
Maximize the growth opportunity with full season production. The addition of pea and oats to TG Extend will deliver summer hay/silage with regrowth potential for fall grazing.
• 25% Melquatro Italian Ryegrass
• 20% Japanese Millet
• 20% Ebena Brand Common Vetch
• 10% Golden German Millet
• 5% Pearl Millet
• 5% Viva/Malwira Hybrid Forage Brassica
• 5% Akela Brand Forage Rape
• 5% H.O Brand Crimson Clover
• 5% Winner Brand Berseem Clover
Seeding Date: Late spring
Suggested Seeding Rate: 8-10 lbs/acre
Add: Pea/oat blend at 50-75% of pure stand rate

TG HAY
Fast establishing warm season blend for hay. Japanese millet and forage collards give good regrowth for grazing or ground cover.
• 50% Crown Millet
• 31% Japanese Millet
• 13% Winner Brand Berseem Clover
• 6% Forage Collards
Seeding Date: June - mid-July
Suggested Seeding Rate: 16 lbs/acre
Use: Hay and graze (annual blend)

TG SOIL ENHANCER
Radish absorbs soil nitrogen and other key nutrients with a unique taproot. Clovers convert atmospheric nitrogen into plant available nitrogen.
• 70% Daikon Radish
• 15% H.O. Brand Crimson Clover
• 15% Winner Brand Berseem Clover
Seeding Date: July 25th - September 1st.
If seeded earlier may need mowing or clipping
Suggested Seeding Rate: 6-10 lbs/acre
Use: green manure (annual blend)

TG SMOTHER
Late seeded cover crop mixture that produces a ground penetrating root system capable of breaking up compacted soils. A green manure producer that will improve the soil.
• 40% Daikon Radish
• 15% Forage Collards
• 15% Buckwheat
• 15% H.O. Brand Crimson Clover
• 10% Winner Brand Berseem Clover
• 5% Balo Brand Phacelia
Seeding Date: August 1st - 15th
Suggested Seeding Rate: 21 lbs/acre

TG SALINE
Combination of saline tolerant species to help cover the ground and re-establish microbial activity. Best left to rot on the surface over winter.
• 36% Japanese Millet
• 28% Sunflower
• 16% Brigadier Brand Feed Beet (in Alberta we replace this with a turnip or radish)
• 15% Forage Collards
• 5% Safflower
(Additional Options: Radish, Chicory, & Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover)
Seeding Date: May 15th - August 1st
(With Radish June 10th - August 1st)
Radish needs to be managed after 40 days
Suggested Seeding Rate: 15lbs/acre
Add: 10lbs fall rye or barley

TG POLLINATOR
A mix of annual and short lived perennials that attracts bees & feeds beneficial insect populations. It improves the soil while being a beneficial pollinator sanctuary.
Buckwheat, Sunflower, Balo Brand Phacelia, H.O.
Brand Crimson Clover, Imperial Select Alfalfa,
Sainfoin, Intermediate Wheat Grass, Laser Brand
Persian Clover, Chicory, Serradella, Alsike Clover,
Red Clover S.C.
Seeding Date: May 15th - August 1st
Suggested Seeding Rate: 20lbs/acre

TG SILAGE BIOMASS
Big leafy warm season grasses with very good yield potential.
• 62% Sorghum Sudangrass
• 17% Japanese Millet
• 13% Winner Brand Berseem Clover
• 8% Forage Collards
Seeding Date: June - mid-July
Suggested Seeding Rate: 24 lbs/acre

TG FALL GRAZER
A mix of warm and cool season grasses. Plantain provides extended grazing with high sugar content. Collards add stable production
and high feed quality.
• 50% Japanese Millet
• 14% Plantain
• 14% Laser Brand Persain Clover
• 14% Melquatro Italian Ryegrass
• 8% Forage Collards
Seeding Date: June - mid-July
Suggested Seeding Rate: 9 lbs/acre
Add: 60-80 lbs forage oat or barley

TG REJUVENATE
A great grazing crop for all species of livestock that will provide multiple grazings and contain several overwintering species for spring grazing in year two. It will help bring in old pastures back to life while increasing grazing production, this blend is meant for grazing and is not recommended before cash crops.
• 32% Melquatro Italian Ryegrass
• 16% Tetra Brand Annual Ryegrass
• 10% Red Clover S.C.
• 8% Balo Brand Phacelia
• 8% Plantain
• 5% Chicory
• 5% Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
• 4% Hercules Brand Turnips
• 4% Forage Collards
• 4% Inka Brand Marrowstream Kale
• 4% Viva/Malwira Hybrid Forage Brassica
Seeding Date: Spring (after early frost risks have
passed).
Suggested Seeding Rate: 6-8lbs/acre
Add: 30lbs of Oats

TG SWATH GRAZER
Improve soil structure, fix nitrogen and improve residue breakdown, while providing livestock with a higher plane of nutrition over a straight cereal crop.
• 52% Hungvillosa Brand Hairy Vetch
• 25% Melquatro Italian Ryegrass
• 8% Balo Brand Phacelia
• 5% Viva/Malwira Hybrid Forage Brassica
• 5% Hercules Brand Turnips
• 5% Forage Collards
Seeding Date: Spring
Suggested Seeding Rate: 6-8lbs/acre
Add: 40lbs of Oats and 25lbs of peas or 50lbs of
cereal without the peas

Pure non blended products in 25 kg / 50 lbs bags below

Below: A customer sent these awesome pics from last season from his organic farm.
Row 1: Wheat seeded with Crimson, White Dutch, & Subterranean clover blended in by us. He swathed it and let it regrow after.
Row 2: It then re grew after harvest, went to seed, and provided ground cover last fall and this spring to suppress weeds and fix N! This year he is thinking to grow winter wheat this fall and harrow on these clovers next spring for same impact but slightly better germination.

Cover Crops & Grazing Blends

We work mainly with Imperial Seed for cover crop blends and pure products

Cover crop blends are suitable for season long use, mid season planting and/or mob grazing, fall grazing and pasture rejuvenation.
We have customers using some of these items for: