I know of a bunch of very large dairy farmers (3000 cows plus) near Madison WI which no longer grow soybeans or corn for feed (cheaper buying it in the fall & storing it). They no longer grow alfalfa either. They too grow corn for fall silage and then seed winter triticale for spring haylage before double-cropping corn.
We grow triticale (grain form) for stock feed, good in protein. Easy grow with good yields we sold some grain to dairy farmers. But rust disease is problem so we don’t grow much anymore.
Lots of farmers grew it here in Australia to be harvested for the grain value and sold off to the dairy farmers. Was a good yielding crop, but very prone to frost. If it smelled a frost coming the grain would not fill, a complete failure. Only then it would be cut and baled , again sold to the dairy farmers.
Triticale is a cross-breed between rye (seCALE in Latin) and wheat(TRITIcum in latin). That is why the grain of some varieties looks like wheat and the grain of other varieties looks like rye-kernels. It is mostly use for feed here in Europ. It is useless for food, because you can't make bread with it (because the dough won't rise).
Mike Less - Farmhand Mike Are the yields when cut for silage higher than the yield of italian rye-grass ? Around here everybody uses italian rye-grass as a covercrop after corn and for taking a cut in spring. If it is only for covercrop after corn and no cut in spring most farmers use rye. Maybe winters in your area are too cold for italian rye-grass ?
Sure takes a lot of different types of work to keep us with food on the table...Yes Farmers and Ranchers make $$$ doing it, BUT we as Humans can not live without FOOD, think about-it !
Thank you Mike for the video. I bet it smelled good while filming.
I know of a bunch of very large dairy farmers (3000 cows plus) near Madison WI which no longer grow soybeans or corn for feed (cheaper buying it in the fall & storing it). They no longer grow alfalfa either. They too grow corn for fall silage and then seed winter triticale for spring haylage before double-cropping corn.
We grow triticale (grain form) for stock feed, good in protein. Easy grow with good yields we sold some grain to dairy farmers. But rust disease is problem so we don’t grow much anymore.
Nice video
Lots of farmers grew it here in Australia to be harvested for the grain value and sold off to the dairy farmers. Was a good yielding crop, but very prone to frost. If it smelled a frost coming the grain would not fill, a complete failure. Only then it would be cut and baled , again sold to the dairy farmers.
Triticale is a cross-breed between rye (seCALE in Latin) and wheat(TRITIcum in latin). That is why the grain of some varieties looks like wheat and the grain of other varieties looks like rye-kernels.
It is mostly use for feed here in Europ. It is useless for food, because you can't make bread with it (because the dough won't rise).
Thanks for the info. I don't know anyone that uses it as a grain and Ive never seen it fully matured as everyone cuts it before it heads out.
Mike Less - Farmhand Mike Are the yields when cut for silage higher than the yield of italian rye-grass ? Around here everybody uses italian rye-grass as a covercrop after corn and for taking a cut in spring. If it is only for covercrop after corn and no cut in spring most farmers use rye.
Maybe winters in your area are too cold for italian rye-grass ?
Man I could just about use a tractor with triple mowers on my lawn right now.
Nice audio on the aerial shots. Are you going to the How Farms Work Farm Day this year? I hope to meet a bunch of farming UA-camrs there.
I'm going to try. I'm heading out to western Kansas to my cousins place for wheat harvest that week but may run up to How Farms Work for the day.
Mike Less - Farmhand Mike Awesome. Hope to see you there.
Sure takes a lot of different types of work to keep us with food on the table...Yes Farmers and Ranchers make $$$ doing it, BUT we as Humans can not live without FOOD, think about-it !
Just don’t let the Tribbles eat it!!!!
How many acres per hour can you mow with that setup?
do these mowers crmp?
Isn't that the grain the Tribbles ate on Star Trek?
Couldn't tell you, I've never watched Star Trek.
Nice vid, in Europe and the Canadian Prairies it's pronounced trit-a-cale-ey.
Ive heard some people say it that way.
It is pronounced that way in the US too, some people just don't know it.
I have heard a couple people in the USA say it that way but when I asked others they say it just triticale.
I call it trit!! Lol
How wide of a swath is that ??
I think its 30 foot. 3 ten foot mowers.