ALFALFA
KEY FEATURE
OTHER FEATURES
WINTER SURVIVAL
VARIETY
PV Ultima
VR Total
Top yielding
High performance
Highly persistent with strong
tolerance to pests
Multi cuts
High quality
High quality
Flexible harvest
Ultra winter-hardy
Traffic tolerant
PV Parlour HG Hi-Gest ™ Alfalfa Technology
improves fibre digestibility High leaf to stem ratio
More crude protein
Spredor 4 High yield creeping rooted
alfalfa Persistence and traffic tolerant
Spredor 5 Exceptional persistence
Halo 2
Excellent salinity tolerance
Improved tolerance to salt,
drought and a wide spectrum
of diseases
Excellent forage yield potential
Strong winterhardiness
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Premium Blend Multiple technologies in one
strong package Top performing varietal blend
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Regular Blend Widely adaptable one cut blend
for all soil zones Cost effective blend
OTHER LEGUMES
AC Veldt Cicer
Milkvetch
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Sanfoin
Suited to fall or deferred pasture,
Good drought tolerance, high
hollow stem and strong leaf
feed value, bloat safe pasture
retention legume that maintains
species
feed value later into the season
Pasture or hay, hollow stem,
Good drought tolerance, high
more drought resistant than
feed value, bloat safe hay or
alfalfa
and
excellent
leaf
pasture species
retention
Winter Survival: = Poor, = Excellent. Fall Dormancy: 1 = Dormant, 10 = Non-dormant. HR = Highly resistant, R = Resistant, † Refer to the description for each variety in the blend.
How to select your alfalfa
Today’s alfalfa varieties boast greater yield potential,
better disease resistance and improved forage quality.
So how do you decide which variety to plant?
Here are some key factors to keep in mind when
comparing alfalfa variety to your alfalfa stand
expectation:
• Intended use: Most alfalfa is planted for harvest as
hay/silage or grazing with plans to keep stands if
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they are productive. Special situations may require
different variety selection criteria. When selecting or
comparing alfalfa varieties, base your decisions on
how you expect the alfalfa to perform.
• Winterhardiness: This is a measure of the alfalfa
plant’s ability to survive the winter without injury.
It is measured on a scale of 1 to 6 with 1 being
the hardiest and 6 being the least hardy. Winter-
injured plants may survive the winter, but the buds