TRICAL TRITICALE IS CHARACTERIZED AS:
- High in forage, silage, and grain yields
- High in forage and silage quality
- Tolerant of acid and saline soils
- Tolerant of predominant cereal aphids
- Tolerant of many diseases endemic to traditional cereal production
- More efficient in use of water for silage than is corn
- Excellent in nutrient mitigation for livestock confinement operations
- Can extract large amounts of nitrogen making it an excellent tool for managing dairy waste products
- Awned, awnletted, and awnless varieties available
- Widely adapted
- Excellent choice for EQIP cover crop blends
KEY ATTRIBUTES:
- Awnletted (very short beards)
- Medium maturity
- Semi-erect fall growth habit
- Vigorous fall growth
- Tolerant of rust and wheat streak mosaic virus
- Tall stature with good straw strength
- Excellent green leaf duration (holds its leaves well into spring)
- Adapted to the southern and central plains
- Very good silage yields
ADAPTATION:
AG-135 Triticale for Central and Southern Plains
CULTURAL PRACTICES:
Triticale requires no change in equipment, land preparation, or other cultural practices commonly used for other cereal crops.
QUALITY:
Meets or exceeds quality of other traditional cereal forages. University studies confirm that TriCal Triticale:
- Is more efficient at uptake of nitrogen per ton of silage than is corn.
- Produces more pounds of milk per ton of dry matter than does corn silage.
- Is highly palatable as a grazing forage resource and as a source of silage varies from good to excellent for digestibility, crude protein, and other measures of forage quality.
PERFORMANCE:
Triticale is the “cereal of choice” for forage needs… grazing, silage, or hay.
2015 Research data from the Great Plains show that TriCal Triticale grazing potential was 118% of barley and 155% of wheat. Triticale consistently out-performs wheat and barley for silage and forage.