Gainer 154
At A Glance:
- Early Maturity
- Strong Fall Seeding Vigor
- Excellent Yield and Quality
- Medium Plant Height
- Awned (Bearded)
Best Uses:
- Haylage, Baleage, Managed Grazing
Establishment:
- Planting Dates: Barley to Mid Wheat Dates
- Seeding Rate: Forage: 125-150lbs/Acre
- Cover Crop: 50-75lbs/Acre (increase with later plantings)
- Seeding Depth: 3/4”- 1 1/2”
- Use the large seed box
Freedom! MR clover
Key Features
- Low pubescence and reduced dustiness
- Faster drying with impressive yields
- High quality—palatable and nutritious
- Improved winter hardiness and persistence
- Fixes nitrogen—reduces fertilizer costs
- Available in Yellow Jacket® enhanced seed coating or Organic Coating
- Pre-inoculated with Rhizobium bacteria to enhance nodulation for nitrogen fixation
Establishment
- Seeding rate: Pure stand: 15-20 lbs/a
- With grass: 8-10 lbs/a
- Frost-seed into grass: 10-12 lbs/a
- Depth: Surface to 1/4”
- Seeds per lb: 270,000
A firm seedbed recommended
Surge Triticale
At A Glance:
- Medium Maturity
- Can be Fall or Spring planted
- Fast, leafy, erect growing triticale with high silage quality
- A tall showy variety
- Awnless
Best Use:
- Haylage, Baleage, and Managed Grazing
Establishment:
- Seeding rate: 125-150 lbs/A
- Seeding Depth: 3/4” – 1”, Large box
- Planting Dates:
- For mid spring harvest it is recommended to seed in in earlier wheat dates.
- For late spring harvest it is recommended to seed as the soil is fit in late winter to early spring.
- For Nurse Crop: 35-60lbs/ acre
Nitrous
Key Characteristics:
- Late Maturity
- High leaf to stem ratio
- High yield and quality
- Dark green color
- Reduced awn variety
Best Use:
- Haylage, Bailage and Managed Grazing
Establishment:
- Planting Dates: Barley to Mid Wheat Dates
- Seeding Rate: Forages: 125-150lbs/Acre
- Cover Crop: 50 to 75lbs/Acre (increase with later plantings)
- Seeding Depth: 3/4”- 1 1/2”
- Use the large seed box
Winter Crops- Rates and Uses
By David Hunsberger Cover crops are being utilized on more acres here in the Northeast USA each and every year. Usage is split into two main categories, winter forage production for ruminant animals and for soil cover and improvement. Both these forks in the winter crop roadmap find the same species useful – often the…
Premium Clover Mix
Key Features
- Mix of three blooming clovers that can be used as a perennial pollinator mix for honeybees and other beneficial insects
- Versatile, works well as either cover crop or forage
- Good nitrogen fixer, year round soil cover, and weed suppressor
- Works well with frost seeding, as interseeded cover crop, broadcasted, or drilled.
Product Formula
- 50% Freedom! MR Red Clover
- 25% Alice White Clover
- 25% Regal Graze Ladino Clover
Establishment
- Seeding rate: 4-6lbs/Acre
- Depth: Surface-1/4 inch
Fine, Firm Seedbed Recommended
Excellent for wildlife food plots!
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