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Stefka

  • 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
K2O 120-160 kg/ha
N 40-50 kg/ha

For cover crop

Spring fertilisation

P2O5 100-120 kg/ha (spring, autumn)
K2O 100-160 kg/ha (spring, autumn)
N 40-50 kg/ha in spring
60-80 kg/ha every post-swath (less if papilionaceae)

P2O5 70-100 kg/ha
K2O 100-120 kg/ha
N 30-60 kg/ha early spring

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%