The Turfgrass Group Inc

What The Turfgrass Group Inc does

The Turfgrass Group Inc is a privately held U.S. agribusiness firm headquartered in Monroe that develops and licenses patented turfgrass varieties. Its commercial model combines upstream plant breeding and IP generation with downstream licensing to a network of certified growers, who propagate and distribute the proprietary varieties under controlled quality and certification standards. The company serves three distinct end markets: certified growers (the B2B propagation channel), homeowners (consumer turfgrass purchases), and turf professionals (likely golf courses, sports fields, landscape contractors, and sod producers). Revenue mechanics appear to rest on royalty-bearing licensing of plant variety IP and on certified-seed or sod sales flowing through the grower network, though no pricing, contract, or per-unit economic data is publicly disclosed in the supplied sources.

Beyond the firmographic description, the supporting source material is materially thin: the only direct web source returned a loader/verification screen with no extractable company content, and structured fields for headcount, funding, leadership, customers, pricing, products, patents detail, and partnerships are all empty. As a result, scale, growth cadence, ownership structure, and product-level granularity cannot be triangulated from the input. What can be said with confidence is limited to the firm's stated IP-licensing business model, its Monroe, U.S. domicile, its private status, and its three-segment customer base. Any inference beyond these facts would exceed the evidence available in this dataset.

Name

The Turfgrass Group Inc

Website

https://theturfgrassgroup.com

Company type

Private

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

The Turfgrass Group Inc is a privately held U.S. agribusiness that develops and licenses patented turfgrass varieties through a network of certified growers serving homeowners and turf professionals.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Turfgrass Breeding and Licensing

NAICS

Nursery and Floriculture Production (11142)

SIC

Agricultural Production-Crops (100)

akta.pro primary industry

Turf & Ornamental Seeds (Lawn, Golf, Landscaping) (AFABAFAG)

akta.pro secondary industry

Sod, Turfgrass & Groundcover Production (AFAGAHAL)

Keywords

• Turfgrass varieties
• Patented grass cultivars
• Turfgrass licensing
• Certified turfgrass growers
• Turfgrass breeding

Headquarters

HQ city

Monroe

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Technology or R&D, Operations, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

The Turfgrass Group develops and licenses patented turfgrass varieties. It supports a network of certified growers who produce and distribute the licensed varieties, while providing resources and information to homeowners and turf professionals who specify and use the grasses in landscaping, sports turf, golf courses, and lawn applications.

Product overview

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Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Patented Turfgrass Varieties

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves1 record

Broad incumbents

• Pennington Seed (Central Garden & Pet): Major U.S. grass seed brand with proprietary variety development programs across residential and professional turf, competing with TTG at the consumer and licensed-grower level but operating at much larger scale.
• Scotts Miracle-Gro: Dominant U.S. lawn care company with in-house grass seed variety programs (Scotts, Turf Builder) and broad distribution into the same homeowner and turf professional channels TTG serves.

Direct peers

• Seed Research of Oregon: Specialty turfgrass and forage seed breeder producing proprietary varieties for the U.S. and international markets, comparable in scale and breeding-licensing focus to TTG.
• Jacklin Seed (J.R. Simplot Company): Simplot's turfgrass seed division develops and licenses proprietary turf varieties — a directly comparable patented-variety breeder serving the same golf, sports, and residential channels as TTG.
• Barenbrug Group: Global turfgrass and forage breeder that develops and licenses proprietary grass varieties through a worldwide certified grower/distributor network — directly analogous to TTG's patented-variety licensing model.
• Mountain View Seeds: U.S. turfgrass, forage, and native seed company developing proprietary varieties and serving licensed growers and professional end markets — directly overlapping TTG's customer base and product category.
• Landmark Turf & Native Seed: Specialty turfgrass and native seed producer developing improved varieties for golf, sports, and landscape markets — comparable niche breeder with similar channel reach.
• Turf Merchants / TMI: U.S. turfgrass seed developer and distributor that develops proprietary varieties and supplies certified growers, golf courses, and sports turf — a closely comparable specialist competitor.
• DLF Seeds (DLF Pickseed): One of the world's largest turfgrass seed breeders and distributors, developing proprietary turf varieties for residential, golf, and sports markets and licensing them to growers globally.

Others

• SiteOne Landscape Supply: Largest U.S. distributor of turf, seed, and landscape products to professional contractors; an ecosystem participant and downstream channel for TTG-licensed varieties rather than a direct competitor.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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