Seed varieties

Barley

All three of our winter barley seed varieties are feed types: two-row Manava and Sinanbey, six-row Ramata. The choice comes down to water: six-row varieties suit irrigated bottomland, while two-row varieties do better where water is limited. Each variety page carries its registration-trial yield.

Wheat

Our wheat seed catalogue splits in two: Renan, Tigre and Galloway for bread wheat, Dimokritos for durum. All are winter types — sown in October in Central Anatolia, and from late October to early November in the transition zones. Test weight and protein are listed on each variety page.

Ryegrass

Italian ryegrass reaches its first cut roughly forty days after sowing, then every two to three weeks after that. It is grown for green grazing and silage, and its speed makes it useful as a catch crop after cereals. Cebios is an imported variety.

Triticale

Triticale is a grain obtained by crossing wheat with rye. It is sown both for grain and for green forage.

Forage Pea

Forage pea seed is grown for hay and silage. As a legume it fixes nitrogen from the air into the soil, leaving a prepared field for the cereal that follows. Assas is an annual suited to autumn sowing, so the field need not sit idle after the cereal harvest.

Alfalfa

Alfalfa — lucerne in much of Europe, yonca in Turkish — is a perennial forage sown once and cut for years. Under Central Anatolian conditions it gives four to five cuts a season, the first at the bud stage. Mirna and Central were chosen for protein yield per cut.