FEATURES • Increased Forage Producon • Widely adapted • Improved resistance to leaf diseases • Increased yield • lush dark green leaves • Highly palatable & nutrious • Charisma is an ideal companion crop to • Ideal companion crop to annual legumes such as hairy vetch or field peas • Nutrious feed as silage, green chop or hay The CISCO Companies p 800-888-2986 | f 800-853-9333 www.ciscoseeds.com | www.ciscofarmseed.com Charisma Oats OAT FEATURES Plant type: Annual Grain Planng dates: March–April forage or grain producon; Aug–Oct cover crop or forage Soil pH: 5.5–7.0 Soil adapon: Wide range of soils Planng depth: 1/2” Approximate seeds/lb: 14,000 Seeding rate: 64–96 lbs/A Days to germinaon: 10 Main usage: Cereal grain, nurse crop, cover crop, forage crop Height at maturity: 3’–5’ Length of stand: Annual Reproduces by: Seed Pounds per bushel: 32 Charisma has greater llering per plant resulng in more leafy foliage with broad leaves Charisma has been developed strictly for forage utilization • Spring or fall seed • Grain 64 lb/ac (2 bu/ac) • Forage 100 lb/ac (3 bu/ac), approximately 55-60 days to late boot stage • Nurse crop 32 lb/ac (1 bu/ac) • Cover crop 15-50 lb/ac • Freeze at 20-22 o F Oat variety Relave maturity 2001-2002 Mulple clipping (lbs/A) 2001-2002 One-me hay (lbs/A) Bob Short 4,451 2,989 Charisma Long 4,932 5,673 Chilocco Short 4,775 3,512 Dallas Short 4,537 3,242 Hytest Medium-short 4,268 3,528 Jerry Short 5,045 3,287 Magnum Long 4,208 5,754 Monida Medium-long 4,862 5,976 Nora Short 4,702 3,513 TAMO 397 Short 4,393 2,735 Troy Medium-long 5,856 5,537 Walken Very long 5,342 5,343 Spring-planted Oat Variety Trial (Lubbock, Texas, 2001-2002)