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Annual Forages

ANNUALMASTER
Blend components :
30 %
hps ® Hairy Vetch
25 %
hps ® Crimson Clover
25 %
hps ® Tillage Radish
Cereals
Cereals can be added at 1 - 1.5 bushels per acre , in combination with annual forage ’ s best use - silage , swath grazing or late fall grazing regrowth .
20 % hps ® Turnips
COOL SEASON WARM SEASON
GRASS PLANT BENEFITS
Annual
Perennial
• Create biomass
• Fibrous roots
• Accumulate nutrients from soils
• Used for silage / greenfeed
• Extend the grazing season with swath grazing / late season grazing
BROADLEAF PLANT BENEFITS
• Free up nutrients for other crops
• Fibrous and tap roots can help alleviate soil compaction
LEGUME PLANT BENEFITS
Grass Plants
Broadleaf Plants
• Barley
• Fall Rye
• Oats
• Annual & Italian Ryegrass
• Spring & Winter Triticale
• Winter Wheat
• Sunflower
• Buckwheat
• Chicory
• Plantain
• Kale
• Turnip
• Forage Rape
• Corn
• Millet
• Teff
• Sorghum
• Sudangrass
• Tillage
• Radish
• Sugar Beet
• Phacelia
• Fix nitrogen and help build soil nitrogen levels
• Improve soil tilth and increase organic matter
• Drive mycorrhizal colonization
Legume Plants
• Berseem Clover
• Balansa Clover
• Hairy Vetch
• Peas
• Red Clover
• Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover
• White Clover
• Sainfoin
• Alfalfa
• Cicer Milkvetch
• Chickpeas
• Cow Peas
• Soybeans
• Lentils
Tillage Radish Turnip Hairy Vetch Millet Sorghum
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