(Plant 100 to 150 lbs/Acre.)
This high-quality, high-yielding blend is specifically for forage production in the upper Midwest. This excellent forage producer delivers high protein and palatability for all kinds of livestock. For best results, plant early and harvest when the oats reach boat stage in approximately 65 to 80 days.
| Mix Formulation | % of Mix |
|---|---|
| Forage Peas | 60% |
| Forage Oats | 40% |
Forage Peas (60%)
A cool season annual legume used for forage production and usually mixed with other species. Forage peas are an excellent source of protein, will fix nitrogen and produce high quality forage.
Forage Oats (40%)
A fast growing cool season annual that will produce large amounts of high quality forage in the spring to early summer. Its extensive root system will also help build soil structure, suppress weeds and capture excess nutrients from the soil.
(Plant 100 to 150 lbs/Acre.)
This mixture will provide high quality forage similar to the Forage Peas/Forage Oats Mix. Alternatively, this mixture will perform better than similar mixtures under drier or more saline soil conditions. This mixture will also be ready to harvest slightly earlier, around 60 to 75 days.
| Mix Formulation | % of Mix |
|---|---|
| Forage Peas | 60% |
| Forage Barley | 40% |
Forage Peas (60%)
A cool season annual legume used for forage production and usually mixed with other species. Forage peas are an excellent source of protein, will fix nitrogen and produce high quality forage.
Forage Barley (40%)
A cool season spring annual that that emerges early with fast competitive growth. Forage barley will produce large amounts of good quality forage in spring and early summer. Its lower water use allows good production even under drought. It also has the highest saline tolerance of the cereals making it a great choice for those less productive acres.
(Plant 100 to 150 lbs/Acre.)
The Forage Peas/Spring Triticale Mix will produce large amounts of high quality forage, similar to other pea/forage grain mixtures. Forage quantity may be slightly lower than comparable mixtures, but the forage quality will be higher for the Forage Peas/Spring Triticale Mix than comparable oat and barley mixtures.
| Mix Formulation | % of Mix |
|---|---|
| Forage Peas | 60% |
| Spring Triticale | 40% |
Forage Peas (60%)
A cool season annual legume used for forage production and usually mixed with other species. Forage peas are an excellent source of protein, will fix nitrogen and produce high quality forage.
Spring Triticale (40%)
Spring Triticale is a cross between rye and wheat that is taller and leafier than wheat and oats. It will produce high quality forage with high protein levels and should be cut before heading for optimal forage quality.
This crop matures more slowly than Siberian and is ready to harvest 65 to 70 days after planting. German Millet is taller with a coarser stem than Siberian. It can also produce more forage than Siberian. Because of its increased stem size, it requires better management than other foxtail millets. It is not recommended for horses, after heading. This crop matures more slowly than Siberian and is ready to harvest 65 to 70 days after planting. German Millet is taller with a coarser stem than Siberian. It can also produce more forage than Siberian. Because of its increased stem size, it requires better management than other foxtail millets. It is not recommended for horses, after heading.
Siberian Foxtail Millet is the most commonly grown hay millet in the upper Midwest. Siberian is an early maturing hay millet that is ready for harvesting 55 to 65 days after planting. It is extremely hardy and drought tolerant, which produces excellent hay. It is not recommended for horses, after heading.
It is an introduced, warm season annual grown primarily for forage. It has a slightly coarser stem and matures earlier (about 50-55 days) than german or siberian millet. Compared to other hay millets, it has much better tolerance to flooding and heavy, wet soils and is more tolerant to higher saline soils.
This high yielding pearl millet hybrid is recommended for greenchop, grazing or hay. Our Hybrid Pearl Millet has a massive root system, which enables it to stand up to heat and drought, particularly on light soils. It shows good tolerance to leaf and stem diseases and produces well on low pH soils with low fertility. Hybrid Pearl Millet has no prussic acid and is recommended for both horses and cattle. BMR Hybrid Pearl Millet is also available with the added benefits of the BMR gene.
This is a fast growing, highly palatable hybrid. It is widely adaptable and dependable since it produces good quality forage in varying conditions. Sweething is well-suited for greenchop or haylage and is an excellent cover crop. Sweething produces a sweet, leafy, fine stemmed plant for high-value feed. For maximum production with multiple cuttings, take the first cut when the plants are approximately 36 inches in height.
With its wider harvest window and greater drought tolerance than other Sorghum Sudangrass varieties, Sweething MAXX Hybrid Sorghum Sudangrass allows for the greatest amount of dry matter production per acre. Because of its higher crude protein values and taller stature than regular Sweething, Sweething MAXX is an upgrade producers will want to try.
The Brown Midrib gene reduces the lignin content in this hybrid, which increases fiber digestion in livestock. With the nearly 20 percent increased feed value, increased palatability andnincreased tonnage and leafiness, this is the choice of cattlemen. For maximum production with multiple cuttings, take the first cut when the plants are approximately 36 inches in height.
BMR Sweething MAXX Sorghum Sudangrass combines all the benefits of the Sweething MAXX Sorghum Sudangrass and the BMR gene to give the highest quality sorghum sudangrass in our line-up. This is a product for the producer looking for the highest quality sorghum sudangrass available.
The Agassiz BMR Forage Sorghum offers excellent forage with sweet stalks and nutritious leaves that livestock relish. This prolific growing sorghum with lush, green, broad leaves has become a favorite sweet forage. It ranks high as silage and makes excellent hay if cut early before stalks get too heavy. Agassiz BMR Forage Sorghum provides prolonged pasturing often into late fall.
Grain Sorghum is a grass similar to corn in vegetative appearance, but sorghum has more tillers and more finely branched roots than corn, growing two to four feet. The grain is highly palatable to livestock. Sorghum is more tolerant of wet soils and flooding than most of the grain crops — an interesting phenomenon in relation to its drought tolerance.
Popular for annual hay and late summer pasture, this annual forage is low in prussic acid content and has good drought and disease tolerance. Piper is a Wisconsin release that has good regrowth after pasturing and is the leading Sudangrass hybrid.
Teff Grass is a warm season annual that produces multiple cuttings of high-quality forage. Shallow seeding depth, one-eighth to one fourth inch, in a firm seed bed is needed to ensure establishment.
Picker silage corn is a dual-purpose blend of three-way and single-cross hybrids. It was developed specifically as either a silage corn or grain corn. The extended pollination period of these blended varieties gives very good grain yields, even in dry conditions. It has an excellent grain to forage ratio with tall, leafy plants, which makes this the ideal choice for silage.
A cool season annual legume used for forage production and usually mixed with other species. Forage peas are an excellent source of protein, will fix nitrogen and produce high quality forage.
A fast growing cool season annual that will produce large amounts of high quality forage in the spring to early summer. Its extensive root system will also help build soil structure, suppress weeds and capture excess nutrients from the soil.
A cool season spring annual that that emerges early with fast competitive growth. Forage barley will produce large amounts of good quality forage in spring and early summer. Its lower water use allows good production even under drought. It also has the highest saline tolerance of the cereals making it a great choice for those less productive acres.
Spring Triticale is a cross between rye and wheat that is taller and leafier than wheat and oats. It will produce high quality forage with high protein levels and should be cut before heading for optimal forage quality.
Triticale is a grain species which is developed by crossing rye and wheat. Originally a grain crop, triticale is gaining immense popularity as a cereal forage in the West. In general, for maximum forage yield and feed quality, growers are encouraged to harvest cereal forages prior to seed-fill stage. Allowing for an early harvest, this crop would fit into a double cropping system.
Rye is grown widely as a grain crop, cover crop and forage crop. A winter annual, it is planted in the fall and provides winter cover then starts growing again in the spring. It is used to suppress weeds, as spring forage or for seed production. Producers either terminate the rye and then plant a cash crop, or plant directly into the living foliage and then terminate the rye.
Willow Creek Forage Winter Wheat is a winter annual grain that produces large amounts of high quality forage. This awnless variety is late-maturing for maximum forage production and has good winter hardiness allowing it to produce well in the harsh northern winters.
Due to its rapid establishment, quick regrowth and prolonged growth into fall, Italian Ryegrass is an excellent forage. It does not go to seed the establishment year, producing better quality forage than many other annual forage crops. It works well as a cover crop for establishing alfalfa when using a low seeding rate.
