Grassland Oregon

Members of our broadcast team ran into Jerry Hall, Pres. of a company called Grassland Oregon. At Grassland Oregon, they are engaged in the research, development and sales of value added turf, cover and forage crops. The cover crop arena is what we are covering today because it is new and getting a lot of excitement. We are seeing exponential growth in cover crops. We have a radish which controls Columbia root knot nematode. We have another radish variety that can eliminate 95% plus of sugar beet cyst nematodes. So for your Idaho farmers that might have problems in those areas, it can be as slick and quick way of controlling those problems without using herbicides or fumigants. From a nitrogen fixation standpoint, we release fixation clover. We started developing it 12 years ago and it just came to market. This year we are releasing a product called Frosty Clover and doing some research with Washington State University. This product looks like an alfalfa but it is an annual legume which is non-bloating. High crude protein, high feed value.