Forage

Forage

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Members of our broadcast team talked forage with Jerry Hall, Pres. of Grassland Oregon. “Frostylooks like an alfalfa but it is an annual legume. One of the potentials for this is to go in and intercede declining alfalfa stands to thicken them up. So you have had winter damage and you don't want to put a grass in there or something that might reduce the value of your hay crop, Frosty is a perfect product to go in there and fill that void. There is also some research and what we are doing with Washington state and we are investigating the potential synergy between Frosty clover and alfalfa. This stems from some research that was done in the middle east where they showed some mixed clover with alfalfa. You can see a 20% increase in yield that very first year. That's pretty exciting because a little bit of clover seed thrown into your mix with alfalfa can greatly boost that first year economic return. Are you seeing that a lot of guys with cover crop are discing it back in or the majority are feeding cattle? I would say for the most part it is getting disced back in or used as a no till. There is a tremendous value as we are bringing these legume products from a cattle standpoint. They work really good with a countercyclical rotation with silage corn. So when you get your silage corn crop, you plant 8 pounds of Fixation in the spring, you go in there and you can harvest 40 tons of green matter. Crude proteins in the 26% range.
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