Fodder pea EFFECTA

A mid-early leafy fodder pea with outstanding yield

• High yielding
• Longer stem
• Resistant to lodging
• Very low TGW
• Very good health status
• Usually mixed with oats, barley, or triticale and are excellent source of high protein forage

• Very high yields of green mass (by 113.9% higher than the average of Arvika + Andrea varieties)
• Very high dry mass yields (by 114.1% higher than the average of Arvika + Andrea varieties)
• Green mass yield – 46.89 t/ha
• Dry mass yield – 8.99 t/ha
• Rapid spring growth
• Initial growth/viability – 7.5 points
• Covers the soil surface quickly
• Leafy
• Beginning of flowering – after 79 days
• Duration of flowering – 19 days
• Stems – long
• Stem length – 153 cm
• Crop height – 83 cm
• High resistance to lodging – 6.7 points (out of 9)
• Resistance to pea powdery mildew (Peronospora pisi) – 7.0 points (out of 9)
• Resistance to Botrytis cinerea – 7.5-9.0 points (out of 9)
• Flower colour – red-violet
• Grains – coloured
• Weight of 1000 grains – 140-150 g (small, it means lower sowing costs)

*Official variety tests in the Czech Republic in 2020. (Ústřední kontrolní a zúčešní ústav zemědělský, národní várodnívý úřad)

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