8 BARENBRUG SPORT 2025 | PRODUCT GUIDE “Sustainable Grass Technology” – Barenbrug’s research-driven concept designed to deliver outstanding turf performance in high stress conditions with reduced fertiliser, chemical and water inputs. Barenbrug aims to develop seed cultivars and grass seed mixes that respond to customers’ needs and a changing climate. Our Sustainable Grass Technology (SGT) products are designed to reduce the chemical, fertiliser and water input for turf managers. Products under the SGT banner promise stress-tolerant grass for sustainable turf management and are the result of years of independent and in-house trials. Barenbrug’s SGT products have been tested extensively, and offer exceptional performance in one or more of four pillars of research: • Nitrogen-use efficiency to reduce fertiliser use and cost • Drought tolerance to increase survival and reduce the need for irrigation in stress periods • Increased disease tolerance to reduce the need for fungicide • Lower biomass production (or clipping yield) to reduce mowing frequency, man hours and fuel use Visit our website for a detailed video about the years of independent and in-house trials that led to the launch of Sustainable Grass Technology: www.barenbrug.co.uk/SGT Sustainable Drought tolerance The SGT products are curated from specially chosen cultivars. In drought trials at Landlab in Italy and Barenbrug breeding stations, hard fescue always out-performs red fescue in periods of heat and drought (Fig. 1). The species features strongly in both SGT Fine Fescue and SGTRye Fairway. Included in SGT Fine Fescue for 2025 are two new varieties of hard fescue, Barlegant and Beacon. Barlegant offers a new standard of turf quality for the species and is listed as the new #1 cultivar in Table L6 of Turfgrass Seed 2025; Beacon is not far behind in the #2 position. In the GEVES Turfgrass List (independent trials in several European countries), Beacon is #1-ranked for hard and sheep’s fescue for a range of traits, including Lawn Index, Global Aesthetics, Shoot Density, Wear Tolerance and Red Thread Tolerance. The introduction of these two new cultivars cements SGT Fine Fescue in its market-leading position for overseeding links and heathland fairways. Figure 1 - Drone Image From Landlab. Highlighted plots are the hard fescue. The quality and endurance of hard fescue stood alone during the most intense heat.
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