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An amalgam of two long established companies has produced the third largest grass seed breeder in Europe


likely recognise their cultivars from the BSPB/STRI Turfgrass Seed booklet. So, who are Euro Grass, and why should you be interested? Euro Grass is a relatively new


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company evolving from two long time established organisations in Deutsche Saatveredelung AG (DSV), Germany and Hunsballe Froe A/S, Denmark. Both companies had closely cooperated for almost three decades and, in 2002, steps were taken to align both companies closer strategically in the grass business. In 2005, the amalgamation was completed and the Euro Grass company was launched. Euro Grass now commands approximately 20% of market share within Europe, making them the third largest European breeder. Euro Grass has, by their own admission, kept a low profile in the UK, with a strategy that has focused distribution of their varieties through various seed companies. With the appointment of a face familiar to many Pitchcare readers, Simon Taylor, as UK Retail Amenity Area Manager in 2010, they are now adopting a more direct approach to retail sales in the UK in the amenity market. Pitchcare joined Simon, and his colleague Dr Heino Schaupp, to learn about the company and their secrets to producing quality seed varieties. Heino identifies two fundamental factors of the Euro Grass model ‘having a large platform for breeding and production’ and a ‘strong focus on marketing and sales’. At the very core of Euro Grass’s success is their extensive breeding and testing programme. Euro


ou probably won’t have heard of them. You may well have used their seed. You might


Simon Taylor


Grass invest a large proportion of their turnover in research and development of new cultivars, and boast trial sites from the South of France to Scandanavia, to account for Europe’s climatic variations. The optimal use of trial locations means that Euro Grass varieties can be grown over a wide ecological range of environment conditions. Asendorf is a municipality in the


Lower Saxony region of Germany, situated there is the jewel in the Euro Grass crown, the impressive 170ha breeding site, which also features 31,000m2


plots. An extensive range of turf grasses, including perennial ryegrass, red-fescues (slender, strong-creepers, chewings), smooth-stalked meadow-grass, tall fescues, hard and sheeps fescues and tufted hairgrass ranges, are produced and trialed there. Ecotypes are actively searched


for and brought into the breeding programmes of Euro Grass sourced from different countries and continents. Cross breeding is then carried out between the same and different species. Trialing focuses on the plant


turf trialling


Grass seed


WHY THE GRASS IS GREENER ON THE OTHER SIDE


achieving the following targets; density, tolerance to close mowing, disease resistance, vitality, colour and seed heads. Head of the Euro Grass turf breeding programme is Cord Schumann, who emphasises the further importance of criteria, such as wear tolerance, ground cover and regeneration, as essential for assessing cultivars fit for sports


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