Development
Testing and Trials
OreGro Research uses seed yield, forage yield, and turf trials to measure progress gained in breeding and selecting superior proprietary varieties to satisfy the market needs. Preliminary trials are used for selecting superior genetics to include in the different breeding schemes. Once the final selections are made and breeder seed is produced, then samples of those finished varieties are sent for performance trials in the market areas or areas of intended adaptability.
Trials are also conducted for disease pressure and morphological measurements to satisfy official registration and Plant Variety Protection requirements. With two locations in the Willamette Valley with different soils and management schemes, we can determine suitability for production under most situations available in our production areas.
OreGro Research also takes advantage of public and private seed laboratories to determine such factors as ploidy, fluorescence, and endophyte levels. This is used to determine and maintain genetic purity throughout the breeding, selection, and multiplication processes.
Variety Development
OreGro research and development department currently has approximately twenty varieties in development or in trial and/or seedstock production.
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Varieties Developed By Oregro Research
- Ringer perennial ryegrass turf
- Ringer II perennial ryegrass turf
- Brea (Breanna) perennial ryegrass turf
- Pinstripe II perennial ryegrass turf
- Paraiso tall fescue turf
- Escalade tall fescue turf *
- Trooper tall fescue turf
- Kentucky 32 (Yelz) tall fescue turf/forage
- Chancellor chewings fescue turf
- Granite hard fescue turf
- Dall sheeps fescue turf
- Flying A diploid annual ryegrass forage
- WD-40 diploid annual ryegrass forage
- 4X tetraploid annual ryegrass forage
- Diamond T tetraploid annual ryegrass forage
- TAMTBO tetraploid annual ryegrass forage *
- Winterhawk diploid annual ryegrass forage/cover *
- NuSprint diploid annual ryegrass turf
- Greenlinks diploid annual ryegrass turf
- DH-3 diploid annual ryegrass forage
- Rockin’ R tetraploid annual ryegrass forage
- Tucker orchardgrass forage
- Boost tet. prg/int. ryegrass forage
- Rampart white clover forage
- Companion white clover forage
- Rustler red clover forage
- Blackhawk arrowleaf clover forage *
- Shooter spring oat forage/cover
- Ultimate tall fescue turf * #
- White Cloud crimson clover forage/cover
- Double Diamond tet. annual ryegrass forage/cover
- Triangle T tet. annual ryegrass forage/cover
- Redhawk white clover forage *
- (07-WW) diploid annual ryegrass forage/cover
- (SLTF 10-3) soft leaved tall fescue forage
- Continental II perennial ryegrass turf
- (13PI2B2) diploid perennial ryegrass forage
- (13PI2B1) diploid perennial ryegrass forage
- (13PI3B) diploid perennial ryegrass forage
- (ORRUFest) festulolium forage
- (MHPH27) spring hooded barley forage
- (07-ME) diploid annual ryegrass forage #
- Palomar Turf Tall Fescue
- (MHPH28) Spring Hooded Barley Forage