Bunker Spring Triticale
Bunker is a spring-habit triticale with an awnletted head and a versatile fit across forage and cover crop systems. It provides the biomass and rooting characteristics of a cereal crop while offering a reduced-awn option for producers considering triticale for hay or forage.
Bunker Spring Triticale
A spring-habit cereal variety with an awnletted head and applications in forage, cover crop and biomass production systems.
One Cereal, Multiple Uses
Bunker provides a flexible spring triticale option for producers looking for cereal biomass, forage production and dependable soil cover.
Awnletted Head
Bunker produces shortened awns rather than the long beard found on fully awned cereal varieties, making it a useful option when forage use is part of the production plan.
Forage Versatility
Spring triticale can be managed for green forage, hay or silage depending on harvest timing, field conditions and the producer's objectives.
Biomass Production
Its cereal growth habit can produce substantial vegetative material for cover crop, residue and forage applications.
Nutrient Capture
Actively growing cereal roots can capture available nutrients during the growing season and retain them within plant biomass.
Soil Cover
When successfully established, Bunker can provide vegetative cover and a fibrous cereal root system across the field.
Cover Crop Flexibility
Bunker can be grown alone or used as the cereal component of multi-species cover crop and forage mixtures.
Flexible Planting for California Conditions
Although Bunker is a spring-habit triticale, California's milder production regions can allow fall and winter planting. In colder locations, spring planting may be the better fit. Planting date should be matched to local temperatures, moisture availability and the intended use of the crop.
Management Note: Establishment, biomass production and forage performance vary with planting date, soil fertility, irrigation or rainfall, temperature, harvest timing and local growing conditions.
Conventional & Organic Bunker Available
Weaver Seed offers Bunker Spring Triticale in both conventional and organic seed options. Contact us for current inventory, lot availability and pricing.
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