Tillage Radish® Resource Guide - Cover Crop Solutions

CCS FRIDGE TRITICALEKEY BENEFITS• Easy to grow and control• Excellent for grazing• High silage value• Rapid early season growth• Excellent weed suppression• Quickly established cover crop• Outstanding erosion control• Excellent winter survival• Excellent control• Excellent lodging resistanceFRIDGE Triticale is a hybrid crossed between cereal rye and durum wheat, combiningthe best qualities of both. It is later maturing than other small grains, has high proteincontent, high lysene content and provides excellent biomass production.CORN-SOYBEAN ROTATIONEven when harvest runs late, FRIDGE Triticale performswith rapid early growth. It provides the cover needed forsuperior erosion control and weed suppression. It scavengesnutrients and adds significant biomass contributing to soilhealth. FRIDGE Triticale is easy to control in the spring dueto its later maturity.SILAGE AND GRAZING OPTIONWhen you need another source of nutrition for livestockFRIDGE Triticale is a strong performer producing highquality forage. It produces more tillers if planted beforevernalization, has soft leaves, regrows quickly, has softstraw and water soluble lignite, which make it easy tomanage as a forage. Cuttings have protein levels higherthan either of the FRIDGE parents, cereal rye or durumwheat. If forage is desired plan to seed accordingly.MIXES: EXPONENTIAL BENEFITSFRIDGE Triticale is featured in high performancemixes such as TillageMax CHARLOTTE and TillageMaxTALLADEGA. Mixing FRIDGE with species like TillageRadish® and CCS Crimson Clover adds to thebenefits. Tillage Radish® grows throughcompaction, soaks up nitrogen and othernutrients and stores them over winter afterbeing winter killed.FRIDGE Triticale, southeast Pennsylvania, early May, 20” tall.FRIDGE Triticale is mixedwith Tillage Radish® and CCS CrimsonClover in the CHARLOTTE Mix.Winter hardy FRIDGE is excellent atsoaking up nitrogen released by Tillage Radish® in thespring, and captures N left over from previous crops,manure applications, or N generated by CCS Crimson Clover.FRIDGE Triticale can be used for forage in the spring bydoubling the seeding rate or by including Tillage RootMaxannual ryegrass to balance the ration.1-800-767-9441 28 CoverCropSolutions.com