Document Type

Other

Publication Date

1-1-2006

Keywords

alternative forages, dairy cattle, soybeans, sunflowers, oilseed crops

Extension Number

ExEx 4023

Department

Dairy Science

Description

Oilseed crops such as soybeans and sunflowers may be harvested for forage when you have decided that dry conditions have shrunk their oilseed yield below your economic threshold for seed harvest or when you face a shortage of roughage. These alternative forages can help stretch your usual forages, whose yield most likely is also compromised under dry conditions. How you will harvest alternative crops for forage depends on the individual crop and its stage of maturity.

Comments

Updated January 2006.

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