Fodder pea ARVIKA (ORG) LT-EKO-001

Produced in Lithuania

A late full-leaf pea, good dual-purpose cover or forage crop

• High yielding
• Very tall plants
• Rapid spring growth
• Good forage quality
• Lavender flowers
• Small seed size
• Excellent protein source
• Highly palatable
• Usually mixed with oats, barley, or triticale and are excellent source of high protein forage

• High yields
• Tall plants
• Rapid spring growth
• Covers the soil surface quickly
• Sown in spring, for green fodder is ready in 60 days
• Stem – long
• Leafy
• High resistance to lodging
• Very good resistance to rust and other diseases
• Early sowing can be affected by foliar diseases
• Flowering – moderately late
• Flowers – red-purple (lavender), grains – coloured
• Late ripening
• 1000 grains weight – 171 g (small, it means lower sowing costs)
• High protein content
• Good feed quality, good digestibility
• Suitable for green fodder, hay, green fertilizer
• Suitable for mixtures with summer and winter cereals (oats, barley, triticale)
• If sown with small grain legumes, cut the forage when the grain is in the bud stage, otherwise – cut at the flowering stage
• Sown early
• Easy to grow for grains
• Grows well in cool weather
• Does not tolerate waterlogged soils
• Accumulates nitrogen, good pre-crop
• Pea for forage is sown in early spring
• Pea for green manure is sown at the end of summer
• Tall plants suppress weeds, fix nitrogen, and improve the soil

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