Timothy COMER

A mid-early high-yielding universal hexaploid timothy

• Best combination of yield and quality
• The highest spring grazing yields
• Excellent 2-cut silage yields from swards
• The yield standard of COMER compares the yield of perennial ryegrass
• Winter hardy
• Persistent
• High disease resistance to Helmithosporium and bacteriosis
• Best quality
• Resistance to lodging
• Early to intermediate heading

• Excellent yields
• Yields are comparable to those of perennial ryegrass
• Yield –7 points (out of 9)
• Rapid growing in spring
• Excellent yields for spring grazing
• Heading time – early/medium early
• Flowering time – early (3 points out of 9)
• Ripening time – early
• Height of plants – tall (7 points out of 9)
• Grows well throughout the summer
• Stems form more slowly in the aftermath
• Summer/autumn harvests are the same as of the first harvest
• Resistance to lodging – medium/good
• Resistance to diseases – 7 points
• Highly resistant to blight and bacteriosis
• Winter hardiness – good
• Persistent
• Inflorescence length – medium/long (6 points out of 9)
• Average seed yield – 550 kg/ha
• Seed yield potential – 750 kg/ha
• Weight of 1000 seeds – 0.35-0.5 g
• Perfect for sowing in mixtures for haying
• Good quality feed
• Two cuts are available for silage production
• Grazing resistance – 4 points (out of 9)

• Development in spring – fast, 3 points out of 4
• Resistance to leaf spot – 3 points out of 4
• Dry mass yield – 3 points out of 4

*ILVO catalog data, 2018.

• Heading time – 4 points
• Heading time (in Germany) – 62 days after April 1
• Plant height/initial development – 5 points
• Growth habits/initial development – 4 points
• Plant height / fully developed – 8 points
• Growth habits / fully developed – 3 points
• Stem length – 8 points
• Primary mass formation – 6 points
• Dormancy – 4 points
• Tendency to lodging – 6 points
• Resistance – 5 points
• Total dry matter yield – 5 points
• Dry matter yield of the first harvest – 5 points
• The dry matter yield of subsequent harvests – 6 points

*According to Beschreibende Sortenliste. Futtergräse Ersparsette, Klee, Luzerne, 2020, Bundessortenamt

The varietal parameters may differ from those indicated here when the testing circumstances differ from quondam