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Annual Forages

Annual forages provide many benefits including reducing erosion , improving soil , competing with weeds , enhancing nutrient and moisture availability and helping control pests .
COWBOYMASTER NEW
Blend components :
50 %
Oats
10 %
hps ® Radish
5 %
hps ® Turnip
5 %
hps ® Sorghum
5 %
hps ® Hairy Vetch
4 %
hps ® Crimson Clover
4 %
hps ® Berseem Clover
4 %
hps ® Meroa Italian Ryegrass
4 %
hps ® Sunflower
4 %
Cow Peas
2 %
hps ® Chicory
ANNUALMASTER
Blend components :
30 %
hps ® Hairy Vetch
25 %
hps ® Crimson Clover
25 %
hps ® Tillage Radish
20 %
hps ® Turnips
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 .
GRASS PLANT BENEFITS
• 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
Grass Plants
Broadleaf Plants
• Barley
• Fall Rye
• Oats
Annual
• Annual & Italian Ryegrass
• Spring & Winter Triticale
• Winter Wheat
• Sunflower
• Buckwheat
• Chicory
• Plantain
• Kale
• Turnip
• Forage Rape
COOL SEASON
Perennial
WARM SEASON
• Corn
• Millet
• Teff
• Sorghum
• Sudangrass
• Tillage
• Radish
• Sugar Beet
• Phacelia
LEGUME PLANT BENEFITS
• 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
Crimson Clover Turnip Millet Balansa Clover Sorghum
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