Albert Lea Seed House 2018 Organic Seed Guide | Page 22

SMALL GRAIN SEED
ORGANIC PEA & FORAGE
MIXTURES
Peas do best in cool, dry conditions. Plant them as early
as possible (even before oats) on well-drained ground.
Don’t plant them shallowly. Plant them at least 1½-3 in.
deep. Peas are slow to establish but need to be deep.
Avoid wet ground. Always use inoculant when seeding
peas on ground that hasn’t been in peas for five years.
Organic Spring Triticale /
4010 Pea Mixture
• A mixture of 50% Spring Triticale* and 50% 4010
Forage Peas
• Excellent forage quality; highest of any of the small
grain/pea mixtures
• When cutting for silage, try to cut when the triticale
is at boot stage to maximize forage value
• Can be underseeded with alfalfa (use the lower
seeding rate)
Organic Oat / 4010 Pea Mixture
• Seed 100-200 lbs/A in early spring, approximately
2 in. deep
• Our oat/pea mixture is an approximately 50-50 blend
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(by weight) of a tall, good-standing oat variety with a
leafy, forage pea
This mixture is intended for forage or silage only, not
suitable for grain
When cutting for silage, try to cut when the oats are at
the boot stage to maximize forage value
Can be underseeded with alfalfa (use the lower
seeding rate)
Seed 100-200 lbs/A in early spring, approximately
2 in. deep.
Organic Barley/Pea Mixture
• A mix of about 60% dual-purpose field peas and
40% barley (by weight)
• When swathed and combined, this makes an
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excellent animal feed that has much higher protein
than straight small grain
When cutting for silage, try to cut before the barley
heads out (boot stage) to maximize forage value
Can be underseeded with alfalfa (use the lower
seeding rate)
Seed 150-200 lbs/A in early spring, approximately 2
in. deep
* Variety Not Stated (VNS)
Matt Leavitt and
Matt Helgeson,
Albert Lea Seed
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