Forage FX 1002 Triticale: Cold-Hardy Beardless Variety for Dryland Forage

0:04 All right, so we're standing in our fall planted overwintering triticale plots and this particular strip is FX1002. So, this is another product out of the

0:14 MonTech group up in Montana. So it's basically kind of a build off of the 1001 product, which is something we've been carrying at GreenCover for a

0:22 Long time and it's been just an excellent performer for us. So we're excited to see this new and improved variety and bringing that.

0:29 Out to customers. We had excellent overwintering, the stand looks great, easy establishment last fall. So we've come through the winter well and it's.

0:36 Looking good. Yeah, so any good seed company is always going to be trying to improve their genetics and basically that's what this.

0:42 This is the next generation of the forage FX series. So we've got the 1001 over here, we've got the 1002 here. You can see they look very.

0:53 Similar. I would say this Nathan might be just a tad shorter. My guess is they've bred better standability into it and sometimes that means shortening the.

1:11 Things is they're breeding better disease resistances into this. Now, we haven't seen any diseases in these at all. There's been no fungicide.

1:19 applications. The wheat in these plots got decimated by wheat streak mosaic and other diseases. The rye and the triticales

1:27 Look awesome. And again, there's been no fungicides, no crop protection on any of these at all. So they both look really good. But typically the newer

1:37 Generations generally have a little bit better disease package because they've just got more generations of selecting for the characteristics that they want. So we likely will be carrying the 1002 forage FX1002.

1:52 But for this upcoming year, we still got the old standby 1001. But really like the looks of this new one as well.