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Article: Seed trade keeps innovating: check out this list of many of the newer varieties available in 2003. (Lawn Care).(Directory)
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- Landscape Management
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- March 1, 2003
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Growers and marketers of turf seed are predicting a modest rebound in prices and keeping their fingers crossed for a jump in demand. For the first spring in about three years there likely will be tight supplies--perhaps even shortages--of some of the most popular varieties of perennial ryegrass, sources in Oregon's Willamette Valley say.
While this is good news for growers and marketers of turf seed, landscapers, lawn care service providers and grounds managers are advised to check with their suppliers early to secure the seed that they will need for the 2003 season.
Growers, reacting to over-supply, have cut back ryegrass production acreage the past two ...