Winter Triticale
Our triticale program produces high value forage and grain triticale varieties. With an array of spring, fall, bearded, and awletted. There is a variety for almost any scenario where forage and grain triticale are used. Between cover crop and forage there is a growth type that can fit most any need on the farm. We have several varieties in the advanced testing stage with improved forage tonnage, as well as varieties with heavy stooling and great root mass that retain the premium qualities of Triticale for both forage and cover crop usage.
Useful Vocabulary and Information:
- Awnletted: A triticale that has a short beard but is not completely beardless. Clayton is an example of an "awnletted" triticale. It has a short beard or spike. Not a full beard, but not completely beardless, either.
- Bearded/ Beardless: A long bristly spike that protrudes from the seed shell and protects the seed kernel. Beard type can be important when selecting a variety that suits the circumstance.
- Facultative: The plant that has cold tolerances to be fall planted as well as planted in the spring planting season. it has a very short, to no, vernalization period.
Why Choose Awned (Bearded), Awnletted (Short Beard), or Awnless (Beardless)?
Livestock for grazing: When using triticale for grazing the plant is harvested before head emergence, therefore the head is still in the sheath, and any variety is suitable.
Forage for hay: Awnletted and awnless generally make better forage choices, less beard means .
the animal is more likely to eat any heads that are emerged.
Green Chop or Silage: When raising for green chop or silage all head types can be suitable. Any awns that have emerged will be broken down mechanically.
Livestock for grazing: When using triticale for grazing the plant is harvested before head emergence, therefore the head is still in the sheath, and any variety is suitable.
Forage for hay: Awnletted and awnless generally make better forage choices, less beard means .
the animal is more likely to eat any heads that are emerged.
Green Chop or Silage: When raising for green chop or silage all head types can be suitable. Any awns that have emerged will be broken down mechanically.
Clayton Awnletted Facultative Forage Triticale
Clayton is a facultative variety which allows it the flexibility of being fall planted or spring planted. Clayton is also the shortest of the three compared to Flex 719 and Gunner, allowing for it to have the superior lodging resistance amongst the three.
Trical Flex 719 Awnletted Facultative Triticale
Flex 719 when compared to Clayton and Gunner it exhibited the highest dry yield, protein yield, and dry matter percentage amongst the three, in irrigated forage trials in the Columbia Basin of Washington at soft dough.
Trical Gunner Awnletted Facultative Triticale
Gunner is shorter like Clayton and exhibited the highest wet yield and is very close to Clayton in protein yield.
For more information, please contact us.
Clayton is a facultative variety which allows it the flexibility of being fall planted or spring planted. Clayton is also the shortest of the three compared to Flex 719 and Gunner, allowing for it to have the superior lodging resistance amongst the three.
Trical Flex 719 Awnletted Facultative Triticale
Flex 719 when compared to Clayton and Gunner it exhibited the highest dry yield, protein yield, and dry matter percentage amongst the three, in irrigated forage trials in the Columbia Basin of Washington at soft dough.
Trical Gunner Awnletted Facultative Triticale
Gunner is shorter like Clayton and exhibited the highest wet yield and is very close to Clayton in protein yield.
For more information, please contact us.