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FOREST SEEDING

If you’ve got pastures or hayfields that need improving, you’ve got to try frost seeding. It’s a proven technique that makes it possible to improve the species composition in a given plot of land without tillage. Besides saving time, money, fuel and wear on your equipment, frost seeding delivers faster improvements to pastures and hayfields than traditional methods, which require ploughing, discing, harrowing and seeding. Frost seeding is also a technique that’s very well suited to Canada and our frosty springs.

How Frost Seeding Works

Broadcast tiny seeds onto the snow in late winter or early spring, and the rest takes care of itself. That’s frost seeding in a nutshell, and it’s the simple and pleasant reality behind what’s usually

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