Several forage crops, including barley, cereal rye, oats, pearl millet, sorghum, triticale, and wheat can be planted after corn harvest without restriction. Field peas and chickpea can be planted ...

A couple tons of good forage can be grown from taller, full season varieties planted after wheat. Oats planted in late July to early August is another option.

If restricted to just one more forage for the South, a cereal grain such as oats, wheat, rye, or triticale gets the nod. All of these will go in the ground about the time the annuals are peaking ...

Spring-planted oats can provide many possibilities for producers. An oat crop can provide a quick, small-grains pasture with good forage quality that can bridge the gap until summer pasture is ...

Oats grow during cool spring weather when rain is most likely and when soil moisture is used most efficiently to produce forage. This means risk is low and seed is relatively cheap.

Due to several issues, there will be open fields this winter that could be prime candidates for a spring forage crop. Spring-planted oats can provide many possibilities for farmers. Typically in ...

I’m planting one plot in small strips of varying forage. I’ll have sections of beans, turnips, oats, clover, and whatever else with a couple of ground blinds strategically located.

Oats were looking “pretty decent,” at about 60 bushels per acre on this field, if the grain heads fill. That’s less than the 80 to 90 bushels they’d normally expect.

- A wide range of forage crops could help grain and livestock producers salvage some value from their fields once the drought-ravaged corn crop has been harvested - if soil moisture returns to a level ...

Forage is the foundation of all dairy diets, and the highest-quality alfalfa usually finds its way to the dairy market, NDSU Extension Service dairy specialist J.W. Schroeder says.