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 : 68 % Oats 6 % hps ® Radish 3 % hps ® Turnip 3 % hps ® Sorghum 4 % hps ® Hairy Vetch 3 % hps ® Crimson Clover

3 % hps ® Berseem Clover 3 % Meroa Italian Ryegrass 3 % hps ® Sunflower 2 % Forage Peas 1 % hps ® Kale 1 % 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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Annual Forages