Yellow Jacket Enhanced Seed Coating

YELLOW JACKET® ENHANCED SEED COATING

Yellow Jacket® Enhanced Seed Coating A recognized leader in innovative grass seed coating, Barenbrug’s Yellow Jacket® Enhanced Seed Coating has been providing the professional turfgrass seed industry with quality coated seeds since 2007. Since this time, millions of pounds of Yellow Jacket enhanced seeds have been sold across the United States.

Yellow Jacket What is Enhanced Seed Coating?

Featuring Azuba, a starch-based superabsorbent capable of holding up to 600

Yellow Jacket Benefits

times its own weight in water. University of New Mexico trials demonstrate Yellow Jacket

• Improved turf quality

enhanced seed establishes faster than raw

• Enhanced uniform seeding

seed and requires less water. Faster, stronger

• Less water needed for

turf establishment provides superior natural competition to weeds and disease. This results in improved turf quality, reduced establishment costs and faster utilization of a newly seeded area.

establishment • Faster and improved establishment • Seed moves readily through the turf canopy for

Yellow Jacket seed enhancement is ideal for those less than optimum weather conditions or when conditions of use and play don’t allow for normal conditions of establishment.

Effects of Water Holding Capacity at Different Irrigation Rates on Establishment While irrigating at 98% and 56% ETo*, this study indicated Yellow Jacket coated seed increased turf cover compared to uncoated

improved soil contact • Easy to visually monitor during application • Apron XL systemic fungicide improves seedling and root development • Proven performance even in the most demanding applications

seed during establishment. Data represents the average of 5 cool and ware season

Mean Percent Cover

turfgrass species.

40

coated

35

uncoated

Yellow Jacket Advantage With Yellow Jacket

30

600x

25 20

hold up to 600 times its weight in water.

15

With Yellow Jacket

10

30%

5 0

Coating, each seed can

High Moisture Low Moisture New Mexico State University

*Evapotranspiration

Coating, up to 30% less water is needed for establishment.

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Yellow Jacket The Proof is in the Coating Numerous independent university tests

Percent Germination of Kentucky

have proven grass seed enhanced

bluegrass 28 days after seeding in

with Yellow Jacket technology greatly

Phytotron Controlled Drought

outperforms raw seed.

Conducted at one of several Phytotron

Now, after several years on the market,

facilities in the world, this study displayed

Yellow Jacket has proven itself a key

Yellow Jacket coated seed’s ability to

to successfully establishing turf by

outperform uncoated seed with percent

our customers in some of the most

germination virtually doubling.

demanding applications. Yellow Jacket season grass seed species including tall fescue, perennial ryegrass, annual ryegrass, bentgrass, Kentucky bluegrass and Bermudagrass.

percent germination

can be found on all major cool and warm

40

coated

35

uncoated

30 25 20 15 10 5 0

70%

80%

North Carolina State University

Field Trial Assessing Establishment & Turf Quality Under Ideal Conditions “After establishment was complete, coating provided significant improvements in turfgrass density, disease, and quality over several ratings dates.”

-Dr. Reynolds, NC State Yellow Jacket Establishment how quickly Yellow Jacket Coated bentgrass establishes all while reducing water usage.

September 3rd through October 3rd.

Pine Lakes Golf and Tennis Club Lincoln, Nebraska

Turf Quality Ratings (1-9)

Time lapse photography shows

coated

8

uncoated

7 6 5 4 3 2 1 TF/KBG Mix

Kentucky Bluegrass

Turf Saver RTF

Perennial Ryegrass

Creeping Bentgrass

North Carolina State University: Post Establishment (Sep. 24th)

“This season at Kettle Hills we have removed trees from the golf course.

We used RPR with Yellow Jacket and found the seed used less water and established faster. Because of these characteristics, RPR with Yellow Jacket is our new favorite seed!�

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