Our commitment to research and development is the key to the success of our products. The breeding of new cultivars with desirable characteristics such as wear tolerance, disease resistance and drought tolerance are vital in today’s environment to help find solutions to the problems our customers encounter.

What's more we also take into account other major qualities to consider such as germination temperatures by looking deep into each individual cultivar to provide solution to the new challenges which lay ahead of us.

To ensure our results are effective, Barenbrug has research stations situated in different climatic zones throughout the world helping to provide quality testing and selection from well adapted cultivars and species in each of these climatic zones. Our research is built from the discussions and needs of our customers to ensure we meet their future requirements.

In addition to our global research and international trials, Barenbrug UK has developed trial programmes across every sport. These trails provide you with proven technical products that meet the demands of today’s sporting surfaces.

Ensuring quality performance and aesthetics

Current UK performance trials assess a limited number of the characteristics of individual cultivars of grasses within a species to evaluate their suitability for various amenity applications. In the UK, cultivars are rarely used as a monoculture as they are more commonly used either in blends of one species or in mixtures of different species to ensure quality performance and aesthetics.

Barenbrug has initiated a comprehensive and evolutionary mixture trials programme at Barenbrug Research stations, supported by the trails at the Sports Turf Research Institute in the UK. The main objective of these trails is to assess and evaluate mixture performance to ensure we offer the best possible solution by using highly rated cultivars and unique species.

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