Variety registered in 2005, is a variation of fodder, intended for use for hay meadow and grazing.
Is medium late variety has high density sward and excellent durability. It gives high yields of fresh and dry weight. High yields of biomass combined with good yielding seed. The variety has good winter hard and regrowth after swaths. This variety has a medium soil and agronomic requirements and medium-high fertilizer. Growing for green mass TUKAN can be grown on all soils except dry sandy soils and wetlands. However, gives the highest yields on fertile soils. Good yield of lighter soils, but sufficiently moist and richly fertilized by natrogen. TUKAN can be grown in pure stand or as an undersown in cereals. When grown without a cover crop, sown cocksfoot can be up to 15 August. For best results, however, early-sowing in summer (June, July). Practicing as an undersown in cereals, good results are achieved by sowing in early spring barley. In pure sowing pre-applied mineral fertilizers at a dose of about 50 kg N, 60-90 kg P2O5 and 80-120 kg K2O per ha. In the full use of phosphate fertilizers in quantities of 100-120 kg P2O5 per ha may be sown at once in early spring, while the nitrogen and potassium should be supplied to each set in a dose of 60-80 kg N and 50-70 kg K2O per ha. Seeding cocksfoot, as undersown increase the phosphorus-potassium fertilization of spring barley by about 40%. After harvesting, sow a cover crop must be 60-80 kg N at pre-sowing crops ha.
When grown in pure stand should be 12-15 kg of seeds sown per 1 ha, while in cover plant around 15-20 kg /ha.
Usually we make 3-4 sets per year. The first crop should be collected at the beginning of earing plants, and the latest by 30 September.
Growing for seed;
In better conditions for supply of soil nutrients and water reacts very strong vegetative growth. Should not be assumed on very fertile soil is too wet, and in areas with more rainfall. For grown for seed is sown cocksfoot rationally common in early spring in spring barley, a reduced amount of seed grain. They can also be harvested legumes for seed sowing, than norm reduced by 40-50%. Make sowing a cover crop in the first place. Then across the rows are planted grass seed to a depth of 1.5 cm.
The recommended sowing rate for TUKAN grass is 3-5 kg per ha.
The recommended width spacing for seed plantations is 50-70 cm. If we harvest each year, we need to sow 80-100 kg P2O5 and 100-120 kg K2O per ha and nitrogen at doses of 40-80 kg per ha in early spring and 60-80 kg per ha after harvesting the seeds or cover plants. Weed control chemicals used in accordance with the recommendations of the protection rules. Harvesting seed can be done in different ways: - collection of two-phase - mowing and threshing combine, or twice combine-first set of the trunk (high mowing), the second drying up.