Rye vs. Triticale for Winter Grazing: Know the Differences

0:04 Kind of tend to use rye and triticale interchangeably but there is a real difference. You can see the rye has much earlier maturity. Of course this is spring triticale compared to compared to rye, but rye ends to head out fairly.

0:20 Early it is more winter hardy and more winter active than what your triticale czar if you're looking for winter raises strict winter grazing.

0:33 So here's taller than the spring but shorter than the yeah ride the ride.

0:39 Tends to get very leggy. It comes on earlier so you can graze it earlier, but it also loses its quality much earlier. If you're looking for grazing on in this area on into May, rye just loses quality very quickly if you're looking.

0:58 To graze in February, rye is going to be much superior. Rye has some values that we really like, and one of them is weed suppression. Rye is in the Lolium pathogen plant. It contains compounds that reduce the growth of.

1:19 Other plants, a lot of weeds. Mare's tail is one of them, Palmer amaranth and other pigweed species is another one, but the winter activity of her eye makes it very popular as a grazing plant. Great from the winter, not so good in later.

1:37 Spring as far as finally if you measure the yield on April 1st the rise is going to really beat the triticale. If you measure it on May 15th triticale is probably going to be the right.

1:50 And you know, and it's amazing how fast this rye caught up because when we came out here April first, normally this ride would be you know knee high and really going, you know it was maybe four inches tall because of.

2:17 Really caught up fast can be good grazing like Dale said but you got to get on it early. I kind of jokingly tell people if you're gonna graze rye you need about a thousand head of cattle for a month and then you need fight.

2:29 Somewhere else to go with them because you got to stay on it and keep it vegetative. Once it heads out, cattle aren't gonna eat it very well. Yeah, and some people will mix rye with other cover grains to extend that quality.

2:42 Period or mix rye annual rabbits to extend that quality grazing or do a sequential deal and that's one reason we're so excited about the Willow Creek is it gives you an option to go to after rye or triticale yeah because you could.

2:57 Be grazing this rye in February and March to be grazing triticale in April and the first part of May and you can hit that Willow Creek from the middle of May in through June you have a nice nice program.