Fall dormancy and winterhardiness ratings help determine where a variety is best adapted.  Later fall dormant types are, in general, better suited to take advantage of the longer growing season typical of some production areas.  Winterhardy types are recommended in areas where winter injury is common.  In older varieties, winterhardiness was closely related to early fall dormancy and slower recovery after cutting.   

These relationships made it difficult to combine high yield potential and good winterhardiness.  This variety is the product of a selection program designed to change the fall dormancy/winterhardiness relationship.  The result is a new generation of products that combines later fall dormancy, excellent winterhardiness, fast recovery after cutting, and excellent forage yield potential. 

Convoy combines exceptional forage yield potential, fast recovery after cutting, and excellent winterhardiness.  Convoy is significantly more winterhardy than other commercial varieties of this dormancy.  Mulitple pest resitance is excellent.  High multi-leaf expression, dark green color, and very fast recovery after cutting combined together to give this variety excellent visual impact.  This variety has performed well over a wide range of environments and should be well adapted to all areas where fall dormancy 3 - 4 varieties are typically planted.