Meadow Fescue x Italian ryegrass

Perun is a tetraploid variety of festulolium, type Italian ryegrass but with better persistence.

Yield and quality

The yield is high with relatively high sugar content. Perun is used for silage as pure crop or in mixture with other grasses like perennial ryegrass, tall fescue types of festulolium, and  red clover. In such mixtures, Perun participates with high dry matter yield - especially in the 1st harvest year - with very good quality.

Promising trial results

Official trials in UK has shown very early spring growth and very high yields in the 1.st cut. Good resistance to rust, dreschlere and mildew.Yields under short growing season in Canada and USA are also very  promising.