Why Do We Use Triticale Instead Of Rye?

I’ve gotten a lot of questions about this since posting my residue is king video. Why do we use triticale instead of rye? Guess you’ll have to watch and find out! #farmlife #ranchlife #kansas #cow #calf #regenerativeagriculture #covercrop #soilhealth #rye #triticale

[@markodeen4105]

Great explanation, thanks

[@Nobody-Nowhere-USA]

Your common sense explanation just got you one more subscriber! Thank you,

[@JTACFarms]

Thank you!!

[@TylerBunchanumbers]

Does the wheat growing earlier in early spring translate to the triticale being its a hybrid? In other words can a herd move from hay to triticale sooner than on rye?

[@LtColDaddy71]

It takes a known variety, not a VNS, and you can plant in to it and go back about 2 weeks later and roller crimp it if your row cropping. You can also put some tillage radish in with it that will winter kill if it gets cold enough there. Also, get a couple of legumes and brassicas that will winter kill, then maybe frost plant a pea in to the triticale when the ground is frozen at night, but thaws during the day. I keep my old worn disc openers just for that… It’s not “prescriptive” farming doing our thing. It’s chaos, and if one is not wild eyed obsessed with it, yet knows how to collect and interpret it, they will fail.

[@figandcloverranch5871]

You see Deer Eat that Tritcale in spring before it jumps tall ?? (Like they do with rye)

[@JTACFarms]

Oooh yeah. I’ll see them all through the winter and into the spring munching. Then we it jumps tall they bed down in it.

[@figandcloverranch5871]

@@JTACFarms thanks for the reply 😃👍🏼

[@richardkarpensky1232]

Is that good for hay for horses and cows

[@JTACFarms]

For cows yes, but I’m not sure about horses.

[@ellenorbjornsdottir1166]

I wonder if it makes tasty bread for a person if you let it run to seed, combine it, or scythe and thresh, then check the falling number, mill the grain, mix with water, salt and sourdough, let stand for 24 hours, then bake. For Latin etymological reasons, I rhyme "triticale" with the Spanish word "tamale" instead of the English personal name "Kayleigh", but then I guess I'm not really a farm lassie. Are you gonna grumble at your certified wheat seller? That sounds really bad. I wonder what the craziest weed you've found is. Not necessarily the most severe (i.e. quackgrass - not particularly crazy, but is particularly severe), but the craziest. Like "how did _that_ get _there_?"