Jivet

A highly-productive tetraploid variety

Cut 1: green mass — 7.0 t/ha; dry matter — 2.84 t/ha
Cut 2: 15.0 t/ha; dry matter — 2.76 t/ha

Northern, Northwestern, Central, Central Black Earth, Volga‑Vyatka, North Caucasian, Middle and Lower Volga, Urals, West Siberian and East Siberian, Far East regions

It demonstrates exceptionally wide adaptive capacity to various climatic conditions and has been developed for intensive farming, gains vegetative mass rapidly. The variety is hygrophilous.
The leafiness is 32.9%, the plant is up to 85.5 cm high upon heading. The variety is characterised by high lodging resistance, which enables cutting at the height of 6‑7 cm with minimum foreign material in the forage.

It is cold hardy, tolerates spring frost as low as ‑2–3°С well. The seedlings appear at soil temperature of +5–7°С.

The period from emergence until maturity:
1^st cut — 54 days, 2^nd cut — 46 days.

40 kg/ha

Introduction of nitrogen fertiliser at 80 kg/ha active substance at least, phosphorus‑potassium fertiliser — in autumn upon ploughing based on the results of agrochemical analysis.

The variety is characterised by a high resistance to bacterial wilt and rust, which guarantees high forage quality

Hay and haylage