Austrian Winter Pea vs. Wyo Winter Pea: Cold-Hardy Options for Spring Forage

0:03 Here's another thing that completely shocked and surprised me. Winter pease generally don't overwinter this well, especially in a cold winter, but these overwintered quite well. So we've got a couple different types here.

0:16 And we're Dale is standing is just a regular Austrian winter pea and I think we must have ran out of seed because that part of the drill didn't get much planted but if you look down at the brand it's got a great stand yeah so.

0:29 This is Austrian winter peas, a new one at the University of Wyoming. They developed it, it's called bio winter YWO winter wild winter. They developed it from Austrian winter peas, but it was selected to survive the harsh winters of.

0:46 Eastern Wyoming which is really probably a better fit for us. Most of the other pieces have been kind of developed for that Pacific Northwest area. So again we generally don't see winter peas over winter this well and you have to plant.

1:00 Them deep and we did probably have these planted two and a half to three inches deep which helps. Again, you're gonna see everything that grows above the ground is gonna freeze off and you're gonna see it in the spring but then they come they.

1:12 Come back and they repro and again this, you know, this is a great amount of growth but I wouldn't want to tell now to have to plant my corn but everything was later this year than it normally would have been but if I could get this.

1:24 Kind of growth by mid-May you're in and you're out. This would be a phenomenal cover crop, this would be easy to kill with a roller crimper, very easy to plant corn into, and good forage quality as well if you want that option. One other.

1:58 Already caught on this tape beat her to save clutter. Brenda we and that practice worked years ago when we didn't fertilize wheat very heavily. Once we came out with semi-dwarf wheats that could take heavy levels of fertilizer.

2:16 The practice of seeding clover into wheat just went away because we're putting on so much nitrogen the clover never nodulated. That doesn't nodulate, then grow well. Well, because peas are another legume they don't need nitrogen.

2:31 Fertilizer, so this clover underneath here it's going nodule ate very well, and if you are organic that's a way of getting your clover started in the spring. If your conventional peas and clover tolerate a lot of the same.

2:48 Herbicides so you can use the same weed control for both crops and once you harvest the peas either for forage or for grain that clover comes on and then you've got your next cover crop already established so you can plant on a short term and long term cover crop in the same pass.