Fall-Planted Triticale for Spring Forage: A Winter Cereal That Delivers
Learn why triticale is the best fall-planted winter cereal for spring forage. This video covers how triticale combines the winter hardiness and biomass of rye with the forage quality of wheat, making it ideal for grazing, chopping, or baling. We'll walk you through the two varieties we offer and which one fits your operation.
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0:00 Why did cereal rye and wheat cross the road? No one really knows, but when
0:04 They're crossed with each other, you get triticale. And it brings some of the
0:08 best characteristics of each parent to the table. It's deep-rooted,
0:12 Tall-growing, just like the cereal rye parent, but it's very leafy and very.
0:17 High in forage quality like its wheat parent. And so, this is the best.
0:22 Fall-planted crop for spring forage quality. Not only.
0:26 Does it grow tall and maintains its leaves, but it's very high in.
0:35 Spring grazing, triticale is really, really hard to beat. We've got some of
0:40 The best triticale varieties in the country that we are growing in.
0:43 Regenerative situations with our network of seed growers. So, if you're a cattle
0:49 Guy and you want high-quality, high-yielding forage in the spring, we encourage you to give triticale a try.