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HF Seeds 2021SUPERIOR GRASS & FODDER CROPS IRELAND HF Seeds mixtures have been helping UK and Irish farmers to maximise their livestock production for almost 70 years. This long and successful pedigree has grown over the years as generations of farming families come to trust the HF Seeds brand as the foremost range of grass mixtures that are available. Farmers know that the success of a mixture is much more than just yield in the first year or 2, although dry matter yield is still very important. Animal performance will always be enhanced if the varieties and species used are both palatable and their digestibility is maximised. HF Seeds do this by using our new breeding techniques, which allow us to select varieties which remain much less ligneous as the grass plant matures. Keeping the carbohydrate content of the cell wall as cellulose and hemi cellulose and delaying the build up of lignin. There is almost twice as much energy in the cell wall than in the cell contents and ruminant animals have been designed to maximise their extraction of this energy by chewing the cud. We call this higher Contents level of digestible fibre (digestible Neutral Detergent Fibre - dNDF) as FIBRE ENERGY. Mixture Quality 04 Persistence is a measure of several different and sometimes inter related issues. Sward density, winter hardiness and freedom from Forage Quality 05 disease all contribute to keeping a sward of grass healthy and productive for many years. HF Seeds are renowned for the length of time that they last – while still producing lots of high quality grass. Mixture Selector 06 HF Seeds have been owned by DLF Seeds since 1996. DLF Seeds Short Term Mixtures 08 are the world’s biggest and most successful breeders of grass and clovers. This has allowed HF Seeds to access the latest research Medium Term Mixtures 09 and developmental work on grass breeding, seed treatment, drought tolerance disease resistance and mixture composition. Our extensive trial sites in Gloucestershire and in Waterford in Long Term Mixtures 13 Ireland, have allowed us to breed better grasses for the UK and Irish market, as well as better varieties, we are able to study the Specialist Mixtures 15 benefits of using mixtures, rather than mono cultivars. This has helped us design more resilient mixtures which are better suited Overseeding Mixtures 18 to the increasingly variable weather patterns we have to cope with. You will notice that I have dropped testimonials from the 2021 HF Catalogue. This is purely to reduce the “on farm” contacts that High Clover, Organic Mixtures & DLF Alfalfa 20 could possibly contribute to the spread of Covid 19. It is hopefully just a small measure to play our part in defeating this horrible virus. Grass & Clover Varieties 22 Root & Fodder Crops 24 With the backing of DLF, HF Seeds continues to go from strength to strength. Stewardship EFS Mixtures 26 Stewardship GLAS Mixtures 27 2 Leading the field for over 50 years 03 HF SEEDS SUPERIOR GRASS & FODDER CROPS 2021Page 1Page 3

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HF Seeds mixtures have been helping UK and Irish farmers to maximise their livestock production for almost 70 years. This long and successful pedigree has grown over the years as generations of farming families come to trust the HF Seeds brand as the foremost range of grass mixtures that are available.