- Good crop performance.
- It distinguishes itself with high content of sugar and abundant foliage (high feeding value).
- It heads in 1st decade of June.
- It has high tolerance of winter, long-term snow cover and late spring frost.
- It is resistant to drought periods, and shows spring and post-swath offshoot dynamics.
- The cultivar is suitable for growing all over the country on mineral and organic soils with sufficient moisture.
Stefka
High tolerance of long-term snow cover
- Good crop performance.
- It distinguishes itself with high content of sugar and abundant foliage (high feeding value).
- It heads in 1st decade of June.
- It has high tolerance of winter, long-term snow cover and late spring frost.
- It is resistant to drought periods, and shows spring and post-swath offshoot dynamics.
- The cultivar is suitable for growing all over the country on mineral and organic soils with sufficient moisture.
Green crop | Seed crop | |
| Stand | Low requirements, can be grown on different soils with sufficient level of moisture | |
| Forecrop | Legume, root crops and cereal plants | |
| Presowing fertilisation | P2O5 100-120 kg/ha | For cover crop |
| Spring fertilisation | P2O5 100-120 kg/ha (spring, autumn) | P2O5 70-100 kg/ha |
| Presowing crop | To be done with care | |
| Sowing term | Spring | |
| Deph | 0,5 – 1,0 cm | |
| Distance | 12-15 cm | 30-40 cm |
| Planting rate | Pure sowing 5-7 kg/ha in grass and papilionaceae mixes < 10% of sward composition | Pure sowing 4-6 kg/ha plus 5 kg of grass intercrop and 60-80 kg of barley |
| Rendering | For soil crusting – harrowing | |
| Protection against weeds | Chwastox D, Starane, Tomigan | |
| Harvesting: two-stage | Harvest of 1st swath – the beginning phase of earing, next swath every 6-7 weeks. Optimal dry matter 35% – best souring. | Swath harvest – when brown inflorescence; combining after 1-2 weeks; seed drying – 15% |
