Small Grains
Triticale
Description
Triticale is a cross between winter wheat and cereal rye. Its winter hardiness allows it to grow later in the fall than other cover crops. Its fibrous roots continue to grow through the winter down to 60 inches or more, building soil organic matter. Triticale’s rapid growth suppresses winter weeds better than rye. It produces a lot of bio-mass that is good as a mulch mat, forage or straw. Triticale has an allelopathic effect on weeds and following corn crops.
Management
Triticale can be winter grazed, plowed under in spring as a green manure, cut and made into baleage, rolled after boot stage to provide a mulch, or allowed to go to grain and combined.
Establishment
Drill or no-till 80-150 lbs./A at a depth of ½ to 1 inch deep. Can be mixed with hairy vetch, crimson clover and annual ryegrass. Use about 40 lbs./A of nitrogen in the fall to help establish and 70 lbs./A again in the spring if it’s going to be used as a forage.
- This aggressive triticale was developed as a spring type, bringing excellent forage
yields. - It’s an excellent nurse crop when sown at 35-50 pounds per acre.n at 35 to 50 lbs./A.
- Leap Spring Triticale Tech Sheet
- This does well as a cover crop or forage and gives excellent residual ground cover for no-till systems.
- Triticale has roots that grow deeper than other fall grains.
- HyTon has a strong prostrate fall/winter growth habit that suppresses weeds and gives
superior soil coverage. - It has good forage yields with excellent forage quality and excellent winter hardiness.
- HyTon Winter Triticale Tech Sheet
- Feast’nCover is an economical triticale to be used as a cover crop or forage.
- Triticale is a better soil builder than cereal rye; it makes soil more mellow and soft.
- Feast’nCover Tech Sheet
- Gainer is early maturing to fit full-season corn rotations.
- It’s winter hardy enough to be grown in the North; exceptional yields.
- Gainer 154 Triticale Tech Sheet