Forage & Cover Crop

Forage

At Chesapeake Valley Seed, we provide a diverse selection of forage seed choices carefully formulated and recommended for today’s busy farmer.

Our forage seeds have been professionally selected for the Mid-Atlantic region and are intended for high yields and low management, increasing our customers' profitability while ensuring reliable foraging crop. Our region-specific pasture formulations and mixes feature durable seed varieties intended to supply the nutrition your livestock needs while holding up to today’s intensive grazing methods year after year.

  • Homestead Pasture is a general-purpose mixture for non-irrigated, dryland pasture. It provides the potential for first-cut hay and season-long productive pastures. Homestead Pasture Mixture is safe for horses, is highly palatable, and quick to establish. A combination of Orchardgrass, Endophyte Free Tall Fescue, Timothy, and Alfalfa makes this a perfect all-around pasture mixture for the Mid-Atlantic Region.

  • We can create any custom mix using our forage and cover crop ingredients. Everything can be customized, even the bag sizes (25, 50, 1,000 or 2,000# bags). Just give us a call to put together your customized forage or cover crop mixture.

  • Alfalfa (Vernal)

    Alfalfa (FSG229CR) (Grazing Variety)

    Barley

    Birdsfoot Trefoil

    Bromegrass (Persister)

    Buckwheat

    Chickory (6-Point)

    Chufa

    Clover (Alsike)

    Clover (Crimson)

    Clocer (Micro)

    Clover (Medium Red)

    Clover (White Dutch)

    Clover (White Ladino)

    Clover (Yellow Blossom)

    Festulolium (Fojtan)(6n)

    Festulolium (Hostyn)(4n)

    Grasshance 300FL

    Hairy Vetch

    Kobe Lespedeza

    KY-Bluegrass (Balin)

    KY-Bluegrass (Ginger)

    Millet (Foxtail)

    Millet (Japanese)

    Millet (Leafy 22 Hybrid Pearl)

    Oats (VNS)

    Orchardgrass (Amba)(Medium)

    Orchardgrass (Potomac)

    Orchardgrass (Inavale)(Early)

    Orchardgrass (Olathe) (Late)

    Orchardgrass (Echelon)(Super Late)

    Rape (Trophy)

    Reed Canarygrass (Chieftan)

    Ryegrass (Annual)(Chuck Wagon)

    Ryegrass (McKinley)(Forage)

    Ryegrass (Intermediate) (Super T)

    Ryegrass (Prana)(Tetraploid Perennial )

    Ryegrass (Nutrigraze)(Tetraploid)

    Ryegrass (Zoro-Italian)

    Ryegrass (Firkin)(4n)(Italian Rye)

    Grasshance 100W

    Ryegrain

    Austrian Winter Pea

    Iron Clay Peas

    Sorghum Sudangrass (Super Grazer 2)

    Tall Fescue (Brutus Endophyte Free)

    Tall Fescue (Cow Girl Endophyte Free)

    Tall Fescue (Martin 2 w/ Protek)

    Teff Grass

    Timothy (Climax)

    Timothy (Winnetou)(Grazing)

    Radish (Anaconda)

    Radish (Daikon )

    Purpletop Turnip

    Attack Mustard

Cover Crop

Our forage seeds have been professionally selected for the Mid-Atlantic region and are intended for high yields and low management, increasing our customer’s profitability while ensuring a thoroughly reliable foraging crop.

Our region-specific pasture formulations and mixes feature durable seed varieties intended to supply the nutrition your livestock needs while holding up to today’s intensive grazing methods year after year.

We specialize in custom formulations.

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Not All Cover Crop Seeds are Created Equal

The Maryland Department of Agriculture’s cover crop program offers a unique opportunity to improve your soil health, earn some extra revenue, and help protect the Chesapeake Bay, but consider carefully the seeds you choose.

Chesapeake Valley Seed provides uncoated radish, crimson clover, hairy vetch, and a range of other cover crop seed and mixtures. Why uncoated? Because we know our farmers don’t have time for filler in their daily schedule, neither should they in their seed.

When you pay for 100 pounds of seed, you should expect 100 pounds of seed. The math is pretty simple, and we like it that way.

 
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Annual Ryegrass aka Italian Ryegrass is a cool-season annual. It is dense-rooted and tolerates compacted soils. N catch crop for heavier ground.

Annual Ryegrass

Barley

Buckwheat is a short season annual. It establishes quickly for temporary cover for weed suppression and biomass.

Buckwheat

Crimson Clover is a good N fixer, is easy to incorporate and is less likely to become a weed.

Crimson Clover

Custom Forage & Cover Crop Seed Mixes

 

Brassica. Biomass and deep penetrating root improves compaction. Daikon Radish is a good N catch crop.

Daikon Radish

Egyptian Wheat

Hairy Vetch is a hardy winter legume. It's used for hay, pasture or for erosion control and is commonly planted with cereal grains.

Hairy Vetch

Brassica. Biomass. Good N catch crop.

Mustard

Oats

Brassica. Purple Top Turnip improves compaction, water infiltration and weed suppression.

Purple Top Turnip

Brassica. Rape (Canola) improves compaction, water infiltration, and suppresses weeds.

Rape (Canola)

Red Clover is a short-lived legume and is an excellent N fixer.

Red Clover

Rye Grain

Sorghum Sudangrass

Wheat

Yellow Sweetclover establishes well in dryer conditions.

Yellow Sweetclover