Use Triticale to extend your grazing window. Winter triticale can provide late-fall and early-spring feed to shorten the time cows are fed hay. After grazing triticale twice (fall and spring) growers can still make a crop of hay with yields comparable to spring seeded grain. With proper management triticale can have seasonal forage yields in excess of 7 to 8 tons per acre.

Use Triticale as a double crop and increase your forage yield. Fall planted triticale is perfect for double cropping. It will take advantage of late-fall and early-spring growing conditions and make a high quality feed that can be green chopped in early May. As soon as the triticale is harvested corn can be planted for a second forage crop. When harvested at boot stage or earlier triticale haylage is suitable for high producing milk cows. If harvest is delayed until soft dough stage the yield will be twice as much but the quality will be lower.

Triticale Management: Triticale is adapted to a wide range of conditions including low fertility sands, shallow soils and very low or high pH conditions. Triticale has a very vigorous root system that will bind together light soils and compete with weeds better than wheat. Sow triticale at the same time as you would winter wheat but increase the seeding rate ten to twenty percent. Triticale has similar fertility requirements to wheat. Adequate nitrogen is necessary to ensure high yields and good protein content. Winter peas can be planted with triticale for an added nitrogen source. Harvesting at the milk stage (65% moisture) is generally considered to provide the best balance between yield and quality.

We have Mammoth triticale. This new variety was developed by Mathias Kolding and Bob Metzger, cereal breeders. All royalties are paid to the Agriculture Research Foundation. Mammoth (proposed name) is an experimental variety selected for leafiness, reduced awns, and high disease resistance. Mammoth Triticale is a proprietary variety and by terms of the seed sale agreement unauthorized propagation for seed or breeding purposes is prohibited.

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