Bentgrass seed fields are the last turfgrass in the growing season to mature. Late harvest leaves very little time for combining, cleaning, certification testing, packaging, and tagging before seed must be shipped for timely fall golf course seeding. To expedite delivery for fall planting, many growers clean their own seed. Cleaning removes off-type seed, dirt, straw, and chaff, resulting in a pure, uniform product. Cleaned seed lots are sampled for Oregon certification testing and then packaged in the familiar trademarked bags or in 6-gallon buckets. Laborious planting, hand hoeing, and cleaning all pay off when Oregon Blue Tags are attached to the containers. At this point, any seed that fails to meet Oregon certification standards cannot be sold as Penncross, Penneagle, PennLinks, Penn A-1, Penn A-2, Penn A-4, Penn G-1, Penn G-2, Penn G-6, or Seaside II.

Certified seed is then transferred to the Tee-2-Green warehouse. From the sample taken earlier, seed analysis tags stating lot number, test date, percentage of pure seed, and germination, as well as percentages of other crop seed, weed seed, and inert matter are attached to each container. With all bags and buckets properly identified, seed is loaded into trucks for timely delivery to our distributors.

Back in the field, growers complete the production cycle with straw baling and removal. With a crude protein analysis of 10.55 and acid detergent fiber of 42.50, bentgrass straw is ideal for feeding livestock.