Meadow fescue VALTTERI

A mid-late, high yielding meadow fescue with excellent quality and fast regrowth

• Forage usage
• Excellent yields
• Good fodder quality
• Very good winterhardness
• Fast regrowth

• Yield – 10.572 t/ha
• Aftermath yield – 4.429 t/ha
• Yield in the first year – 11.556 t/ha
• Yield in the second year – 10.696 t/ha
• Yield in the third year – 9.231 t/ha
• Injuries during the winter – 2.9 %
• Density in spring after wintering – 95.2 %
• First-year aftermath dry matter – 205.5 g/kg
• Heading time – late (7 points)
• Maturation time – medium
• Winter hardiness – excellent
• Resistance to lodging – medium
• Resistance to diseases – medium
• Resistance to drought – medium
• Seed yield – 400-600 kg/ha
• Seed yield potential – 800 kg/ha
• 1000 seed weight – 2.5 g
• Purpose of use – for fodder

• Total yield – 10.298 t/ha
• Yield of the 1st cut – 4.402 t/ha
• Yield of the 2^nd cut – 3.606 t/ha
• Yield of the 3^rd cut – 2.786 t/ha
• Injuries after winter – 3 %
• Digestibility of the 1st cut (D value) – 697 (g/kg DM)
• Digestibility (D value) of the 2nd cut – 699 (g/kg DM)
• Digestibility of the 3rd cut (D value) – 700 (g/kg DM)
• Protein content in the 1st cut – 141 (g/kg DM)
• Protein content in the 2nd cut – 155 (g/kg DM)
• Protein content in the 3rd cut – 140 (g/kg DM)

*According to research in Finland (BOREAL)

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