Winter Cereal Blend: What Rye, Barley, and Triticale Mix Can Do for You
See what happens when you mix winter rye, barley, triticale, and oats together as a cover crop blend. This test plot shows how a cereal blend performs over winter and spring, and why farmers use this mix for grazing and soil building on a budget.
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0:03 We call serial plan. It looks mostly like rye because that's what you can see.
0:09 If you get down here and you look there is barley in here, there's some triticale.
0:13 In there and so basically what it is is we will as we are cleaning our winter.
0:19 Cereals will take kind of what gets contaminated going from one to the other.
0:25 Will take what you know, some of the second fat type stuff we may mix that.
0:30 Together and make what we just call winter cereal blend and we plant that on.
0:35 A lot of our own acres, but it's most times 70 to 80 percent, Ryan.
0:44 Roads it's a bargain.
0:48 Yeah it's cheaper.
0:50 Basically when I put together a pasture blend for winter I put together.
0:55 Something very similar to cereal blends and have some oats and barley in.
1:00 There for great fall growth and then Kalin.