Goat's rue EYA-TY

The eastern hop-horned plant variety 'Eya-Ty' is an upright culture with hollow stems and weak pubescence. The plant height ranges from 1 to 1.5 m; leaves are odd-pinnately compound, consisting of 9–15 ovate leaflets of dark green color with an elongated shape. Inflorescences form multi-flowered elongated racemes with corolla of a blue-violet shade. Pods are linear and slightly curved, pointed at the end, bivalved; seeds are yellowish-green, kidney-shaped.

This culture is distinguished by high cold resistance and winter hardiness, making it suitable for field sowing in various climatic conditions. During research over almost two decades, average productivity was revealed: green mass yield reaches 80–294 c/ha without fertilizer application. The nutritional value of feed mass is high – in one kilogram of dry matter there are 0.70 feed units, 9.3 MJ of exchangeable energy, 45.1 NEM, 19.5% crude protein and 27.6% crude fiber.

Hop-horned plant 'Eya-Ty' is also characterized by moderate susceptibility to Fusarium root rot and medium growth yield stability. The period from the beginning of regrowth to the first cut is 43–70 days, and to seed harvest maturity – 91–146 days, which allows planning agricultural engineering measures within crop rotation and sowing sections.