Small Grains

Description
Triticale Plus Fall is a winter annual mixture that combines the strengths of improved forage triticale and Italian or annual ryegrass.  The triticale adds agronomic stability for those not experienced with growing ryegrasses and more bulk for easier silo filling and unloading. The ryegrass in the mixture adds higher fiber digestibility (NDFd) and sugar content.

This productive mixture can be used as a double crop followed with BMR forage sorghum-sudan or corn silage. Tritical Plus is an excellent choice to no-till fall seed into thinning alfalfa and cut one or
two cuttings the following spring. Most growers will only use the ryegrass if they are doing more than one cut since it can be difficult to terminate after only one cut.

Management
Triticale Plus gives flexibility for grazing or haylage or baleage. It works very well for double cropping after corn silage or no-tilled into old alfalfa stands in early fall in order to increase the following year’s tonnage and quality in the first cutting.  Apply 30 units of N at planting. In early spring, at greenup, apply an additional 40-60 units of N to maximize tonnage and protein.

Caution: Allelopathy could affect the next crop unless either some light tillage is done or a large amount of liquid manure is applied.

Establishment
Seed at 70-100 pounds per acre and drill at ½ to 3/4 inch deep.