Yield and Quality of Wheat, Triticale, and Elytricum Forage in the Southern Plains

Abstract

can be harvested with only a slight depression in yields (Redmon et al., 1995). Either option leaves a forage Hard red winter wheat (Triticum aestivum L.) is a major cooldeficit period until warm-season perennial grasses are season forage that couples with warm-season perennials to provide livestock feed in the Southern Plains. Productivity and quality of available for grazing in mid summer. wheat forage declines in April, creating a forage deficit period until Sapra et al. (1973) reported that forage production warm-season perennial grasses are available. Other cool-season anof triticale, a cross between wheat and rye (Secale cereale nual grasses with different growth patterns may provide growth during L.), was equal to that of wheat, barley (Hordeum vulgare this period to fill this forage deficit. A field experiment was conducted L.), and rye. Triticale also was productive later in the on Brewer silty clay (fine, mixed, superactive, thermic Udertic Argiusspring than wheat in the southeastern USA. Brown and toll) from 1994 to1997 to compare seasonal forage production patterns Almodares (1976), Finker and Fuehring (1974), and and yield and quality of winter wheat, triticale (ϫ Triticosecale rim-Prato et al. (1971) observed greater fluctuation in grain paui Wittm.) and ϫ Elytricum spp. (Triticum aestivum ϫ Elytrigia yield and protein in triticale than was reported for wheat spp. 'OK-906'). Aboveground whole-plant biomass during late fall and other small grains in other geographical areas. Forand early spring were greater for wheat than elytricum, but this trend was reversed in late spring and early summer. Average growing degree Abbreviations: IVDMD, in vitro dry matter disappearance; N, urea N. Published in Crop Sci

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Hard Red Winter Wheat Cultivar Responses to a pH and Aluminum Concentration Gradient

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