Gore Winter Wheat for Early Grazing and Forage
See how Gore soft red winter wheat performs in a Nebraska test plot planted in October. Learn why this southern variety offers disease resistance, early grazing potential, and better palatability—especially the beardless characteristic that matters when livestock stay on cereal crops longer than expected.
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0:03 Next we have for winter wheat which is a soft red winter wheat I believe it was developed in Georgia. It's pretty.
0:10 Extensively used throughout the south we don't typically we wouldn't necessarily use it here in Nebraska because I always
0:17 Worry a little bit about its winter hardiness. It seemed to do real well up here this year, but it's definitely.
0:23 One of the popular grades out weeds down south and one of the benefits of Gore and a lot of other soft wheats.
0:32 Is that number one they tend to be a little more disease resistant if you plant them early for grazing compared to.
0:42 Our hard red winter wheats which we try to observe the hessian fly free date, not plant them too early because they tend.
0:49 To get vector-borne diseases like weed street mosaic and barley yellow dwarf and those sort of things, but another
1:07 The plants head out obviously but after heading out and a year like this one where things have just come on so slow.
1:16 And people are desperate for forage. A lot of people are staying on their winter cereals longer than they.
1:22 Anticipated this is still going to be much more palatable than something with a beard on it and even if you know for.
1:32 Putting up hay as we'll see as we move through the triticale, there's a difference there as well.