Winning Combinations
Mixtures of soybeans and oats, sorghum-sudangrass or pearl millet show good potential as emergency forages. That's the conclusion reached after two years...
Tons Of Teff
If you're looking for a good one-year forage crop to work into an alfalfa rotation, the ancient and somewhat exotic grass called teff may be worth a look....
Sold On Sorghum-Sudan
When Guy Clark first planted brown midrib (BMR) sorghum-sudangrass eight years ago, he put in 80 acres. Today he has 400 acres of it and only 60 of alfalfa....
Tropical legume is potential forage, seed crop
Texas researchers are optimistic that an annual summer legume with an unusual name might become popular in the South. Lablab, a fast-growing plant native...
Fill-In Forages
When alfalfa winterkills, it's much easier to replace its volume than its quality. The handful of emergency forage crops recommended for the Upper Midwest...
Oat Hay Turns Heads
If you're looking for a dependable cash crop, or are lean on forages for your own animals, try growing oats for hay. Oat hay is a very viable option for...
Winter-Graze Annual Forages
Fall-planted cool-season annual forages make economical winter feed for beef cows, say University of Missouri agronomists. They say several annual forages,...
Kura's Cure
Control competition to overcome establishment woes. Kura clover has been highly touted in some circles as a legume worthy of a closer look by Midwestern...
Tall Beans Bedazzle
New forage soybeans are a first-year hit. Some farmers think they've found a perfect source of fast forage. Forage soybeans that grow over 6' tall are...
Nuts About Forage Peanut
No doubt about it, the perennial peanut is a bit of an oddball crop. First, it's forage. It'll never make peanut butter or ballpark peanuts.And it's one...
