Hybrid Ryegrass: Mańka
Tetraploid cultivar of perennial ryegrass, designed for use mowing in field production. Has good stability, high yield green and dry matter in the whole period of use and rapid pace of regrowth after the swath. Winter hardiness variety, resistant to disease and lodging, in the field cultivation can be used by 2 - 3 years. Suitable for growing in pure stand or in mixtures of clover and alfalfa, the collection of fodder, hay, silage and as a plant secondary crops. Entered into in 2002.
Soil conditions:
Good yield on fertile soils of regulated water relations and good culture. The best position on crop rotation is after the roots and legumes. However, goes after all the plants. Optimum pH 6 - 6.5
Fertilization:
For green masse: before sowing: P2O5 - 100-120 kg / ha, K2O - 100 -120 kg / ha, N - 60 kg / ha. In spring - after the start of vegetation: 80 kg N / ha, and after harvest of each swath with the exception of the last 60 kg / ha.
For seed production: as the cultivation for green masse, in early spring 60 - 80 KGN / ha.
In the case of consecutive years of service in the autumn of each year, 100 kg / ha P2O5 and 100 kg / ha of K2O.
Seeding date:
For green production: sowing date in any period from late April to mid-September. Sowing of 30 kg / ha or in mixtures 25 kg + 5 kg of red clover or alfalfa, spacing rows 9 - 15 cm, depth of sowing - 1.5 cm.
For seed production: sowing in the period from 25 August to 15 September - earlier sowing ensures a higher yield. Seeding rate: 18 - 20 kg / ha, spacing rows 9 - 15 cm, depth of sowing - 1.5 cm
Cultivation:
The grown for seed it is recommended that intensive and harrowing two-year old plantation in early spring. After threshing as soon as possible to remove the straw from the plantation. Regrowth grass in the autumn has to be cut to a height of 6 - 9 cm.
Chemical protection carried out in accordance with the recommendations
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Harvest:
As a catch crop after cereals, legumes and root crops are sown in late July gives the yield of forage in October. The main crop may be collected 3 to 4 cuts, the first crop at the beginning of earing and another, every 30 - 35 days. The grown for seed: the deadline set in the second decade of July. Seed yield is about 15 dt / ha.
Harvesting technique - single-phase combine with the trunk and re-threshing dry up cuts or biphasic - rake mower mowing and threshing combine the drying up swaths. Under favorable conditions possible double set of seeds.







