Anyone know what Triticale is?
 

I see it listed in alot of seed bags.Is it a southern plant?I live in upstate NY and have never heard of it.

Not much experience with it but its a cross between wheat and rye(grain, not the grass). Its used basically like oats as cool season forage.

I wouldn't consider it a great deer plot.
Its a Spring planting around here- usually as an over seed for an Alfalfa field planted at te same time.

FH

We planted it in a sandy loam soil. Fertilized based on soil samples. We drilled it.

We also used exclusion cages to measure stuff. We planted it in a mix from pogue agri just to see if we liked it. We also planted oats/peas in side by side areas just for comparison.

What we found is that the oats were a lot heartier and even after being mowed down they would keep coming back. The deer ate the triticale and everything else for that matter but, once it came up and was mowed down it was over.

In the exclusion cages the triticale did not appear to give you nearly as much total forage. It stayed smaller and died faster than the oats when the water dried up.

I think the deer eat it great and I cannot tell that they ate 1 thing better than another but, the oats kept producing after everything else had been killed.
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