Nutrien Ag Solutions Forage Guide 2020 | Page 9
ANNUAL FORAGES
ANNUALMASTER PEACE REGION ANNUAL MIXTURE
Blend components: Blend components:
30% hps ® Hairy Vetch 70% hps ® Hairy Vetch
25% hps ® Crimson Clover 5% hps ® Kale
25% hps ® Tillage Radish 8% hps ® Tillage Raddish
20% hps ® Turnips 7% hps ® Turnips
10% hps ® Crimson Clover
Cereals
Blend highlights:
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.
Silage
• Fall grazing
COOL SEASON WARM SEASON
Barley, Fall Rye, Oats,
Annual and Italian Ryegrass,
Spring and Winter Triticale,
Winter Wheat Corn, Millet, Teff, Sorghum
Sunflower Turnip, Tillage Radish,
Sugar Beets, Kale, Phacellia
Berseem Clover, Hairy Vetch,
Red Clover, Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover,
White Clover, Sainfoin, Peas,
Alfalfa, Cicer Milkvetch Chickpeas, Cow Peas,
Soybeans, Lentils
Grass Plants
Broadleaf Plants
Legume Plants
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GRASS PLANT BENEFITS
• Create biomass of the blends
fibrous roots
• Accumulate nutrients from soils
• Used for silage/greenfeed
• Swath grazing/late season grazing
BROADLEAF PLANT BENEFITS
• Free up nutrients for other crops
• Fibrous and tap roots with soil
compaction
• Used for silage/greenfeed
LEGUME PLANT BENEFITS
• Fix nitrogen
• Help build soil nitrogen levels
• Increase organic matter
• Drive mycorrhizal colonization
• Improve soil tilth
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