Spring Triticale (Surge): Facultative Cereal for Fall or Spring Planting

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0:13 All right we're going to talk about surge triticale now. Surge is a fully facultative through the kaeleen. What facultative means is it can either act like a winter triticale meatball planted.

0:27 Over winter and grow in the spring or it can be planted in the spring and does not need to burn alized and can go ahead and give its full growth potential and what we're seeing here is a little bit of both because where we planted all.

0:40 This test plot the rest of the field around here is all spring triticale of the surge spring triticale but it was planted in October and we'll look at that later it's a beautiful looking crop and so what we see is we

0:53 Have some volunteer and we didn't get all of it killed prior to planting this desk lot so the taller stuff here is surged through to Cali planted in October and the shorter stop here and it's starting to head out is surge.

1:05 Triticale planted in April and there's a tremendous grazing advantage for each advantage if you can get it fall planted, but if you can't get it fall planted, it's still significantly more growth here on this than when we looked at the.

1:18 830 north or the El bond because this did not need to run wise so they'll you've got examples of both there yeah they're all emerge spring emerge and so it's nice having flexibility yes have an option and in that spring planet.

1:35 Stuff it'll continue to get taller and it'll grow more and it'll probably eventually catch up to this although what with these spring crops the longer they go into the summer the hotter it gets.

2:02 Now I will say this, this surge triticale does not have the best winter hardiness, so planting it in the fall is a little bit risky and not merely close to what cereal rye will, but we had a pretty tough winter here and it.

2:21 Survived and we'll look at that here in a little bit. Yeah, last week a number of the participants were talking and they were from more arid regions. They were talking very positively about just how tough spring triticale is compared to.

2:40 Oats or the spring barley that used in the past, so I think this is a real up-and-comer, especially in the drier regions, and it's also what we call on. Let it, you can see that this is fully headed out and the ones on here are.

2:53 Extremely short back, you can't really see them. So when we truly beardless, but it is what's called unbearded. So if you're grazing this or you're gonna pay it after headed out, there's none of those beards that could potentially be issues for grazing.

3:07 Very, very soft. You don't get lockjaw out of this.