Irish Grass Seed Recommended List

The department of agriculture irish grass and clover recommended list are drawn up after rigorous testing for attributes such as yield persistency quality and disease resistance and is available for download below.

Irish grass seed recommended list.

It takes 1 pound of tifblair centipede grass seed to cover 4 000 square feet of space. This is the first variety to be commercialised from the marketing agreement signed between teagasc and goldcrop in 2013. Tifblair centipede grass seed is best used for large landscapes like public parks large home lawns around highways airports and anywhere else large expanses of tough grass are desired. Goldcrop is the leading assembler importer and distributor of all seed types in the irish market.

Grass seeds and cereal seeds are the main business areas along with maize beet legumes oilseeds vegetables and flowers. Oakpark a new late diploid perennial ryegrass variety with a pasture profit index of 118 has been added to the 2019 recommended grass variety list in ireland for the first time. Department of agriculture grass and clover recommended list 2020. Of these perennial ryegrass is by far the most important.

Perennial ryegrass italian ryegrass and white clover account for nearly all of the agricultural grass clover seed sold in ireland.