Festulolium FEDORO

A late healthy tetraploid festulolium with high and stabile yields, and excellent fodder properties

• A hybrid of the meadow fescue and Italian ryegrass
• High yield potential
• High dry mass yield
• Heading – late
• The tendency to form inflorescences – low
• Maturity – late
• Very resistant to diseases
• High winter hardiness
• High resistance to rust
• Due to the late heading, the forage quality will be excellent even at later cutting

• Maturity group – late  
• Yield – 4 points (out of 5)
• Winter hardiness – 4 points (out of 5)
• Persistence – 4 points (out of 5)
• Dry matter yield – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Time of heading – late (7 points out of 9)
• Mass production at the early stage – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Susceptibility to winter damage – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Tendency to lodging – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Susceptibility to rust – low/medium (4 points out of 9)
• Turf density – low/medium (4 points out of 9)

* Classification according to the descriptive list of varieties - Bundessortenamt, recommended variety list 2013, Forage grasses and DSV results

• Dry matter yield – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Dry matter yield of 1st harvest – medium (5 points out of 9)
• The dry matter yield of subsequent harvests – moderately high (6 points out of 9)
• Early development – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Susceptibility to winter damage – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Tendency to lodging – medium (5 points out of 9)
• Turf density – low/medium (4 points out of 9)
• Susceptibility to rust – low/medium (4 points out of 9)

* Classification according to the descriptive list of varieties - Bundessortenamt (Federal Plant Variety Office, Germany) 2024 and DSV results

• Green mass yield – 46.65 t/ha
• Dry matter content – 20.85 %
• Dry matter yield – 9.725 t/ha
• Protein content – 13.61 %
• Protein yield – 1.324 t/ha
• Digestibility (VEM/kg DM) – 909.22

* Offizielle Sortenversuche Futtergräser. Essais officiels graminées fourragères 2020 data. Sown in 2017, harvest estimated in 2020)

• Green mass yield – 55.643 t/ha
• Dry matter content – 18.35 %
• Dry matter yield – 10.209 t/ha
• Protein content – 14.06 %
• Protein yield – 1.435 t/ha
• Digestibility (VEM/kg DM) – 914.12

* Offizielle Sortenversuche Futtergräser. Essais officiels graminées fourragères 2020 data. Sown in 2017, harvest estimated in 2018-2020)

• Content of dry matter of the 1st harvest, % – 29.3
• Content of dry matter of the second harvest, % – 56.1
• Content of green proteins of the 1st harvest DM, % – 9.2
• Content of green proteins of the second harvest DM, % – 7.0
• ADF of the 1st harvest DM, % – 24.4
• ADF of the second harvest DM, % – 34.9
• NDF of the 1st harvest DM, % – 44.3
• NDF of the second harvest DM, % – 59.4
• Sugar content of the 1st harvest DM, % – 16.9
• Sugar content of the second harvest in DM, % – 10.7
• The pH of silage from the 1st harvest – 4.5
• The pH of silage from the second harvest – 5.8
• Lactic acid (LA) content in the silage of the 1st harvest, g/kg – 58
• Lactic acid (LA) content in the silage of the second harvest, g/kg – 7
• Acetic acid (AA) content in the silage of 1st harvest, g/kg – 12
• Acetic acid (AA) content in the silage of the second harvest, g/kg – 1
• Butyric acid (BA) content in the silage of the 1st harvest, g/kg – 2
• Butyric acid (BA) content in the silage of the second harvest, g/kg – <1
• Ethanol content in the silage of 1st harvest, g/kg – 16
• Ethanol content in the silage of the second harvest, g/kg – 17

*2015-2017 results of research in Switzerland. Source: Wyss U., Frick R. The ensilability of different varieties of Festulolium. Improving sown grasslands through breeding and management. Grassland Science in Europe, Vol 24 p. 209-211.

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam