FX1002 Triticale: Cold-Hardy Forage for Grazing and Hay

0:00 We're standing in our fall planted overwintering triticale plots and this particular strip is FX1002.

0:07 We had excellent overwintering. The stand looks great. Easy establishment last fall. So we've come through the

0:12 Winter well and it's looking good.

0:14 Yeah, so any good seed company is always going to be trying to improve their.

0:17 Genetics and basically that's what this is. This is the next generation of the forage FX series. So, we've got

0:24 The 1001 over here. We've got the 1002 here. You can see they look very similar. I would say this Nathan might.

0:32 Be just a tad shorter. My guess is they've bred better standability into it and sometimes that means shortening the

0:39 Distance between the nodes. And so, I think this is going to stand better and a lot of times what they do.

0:52 Haven't seen any diseases in these at all. There's been no fungicide applications. The wheat in these plots.

0:58 Got decimated by wheat streak mosaic and other diseases. The rye and the triticales look awesome. So, they both

1:05 Look really good but typically the newer generations generally have a little bit better.

1:11 Disease package because they've just got more generations of selecting for the characteristics that they want.