It is a bunch type grass with upright tillers just like wheat and rye. Leaves are rolled in the whorl. Triticale has a spike with one spikelet per node each containing several florets. The stems grow ...

Iowa farmers who seeded cover crops this fall may have to wait until spring before seeing their fields carpeted in green, as ...

Excessively wet silage (>70% moisture) usually results in fermentation dominated by undesirable butyric acid-forming bacteria, the loss of large volumes of highly digestible nutrients through seepage, ...

In integrated cropping and livestock regions, planting winter annuals such as oats, triticale, or rye after corn silage harvest can provide high quality winter grazing for weaned calves. Research in ...

Maize silage is mainly used to feed all dairy cattle on the farm: growing animals, dry cows, and lactating cows. It contains protein, minerals, and sometimes the energy to meet the animal’s ...

Examples of typical and not-so-common cover crops used in corn and soybean rotations were featured in a recent plot tour on ...

Topping clamps of maize or grass silage with a layer of fodder beet can provide a ready-made total mixed ration without the challenges sometimes associated with ensiling this mix. Clamping crushed ...

The Conservation Agriculture in Crop-Livestock Systems (CLCA) project, funded by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), involved National Agricultural Research and Extension ...

we worked at the Central Ag Research Station in Moccasin on actually managing herbicide-resistant wild oat using triticale, using barley, spring, barley spring pea mixes in there to get forage.

This page shows pictures of small grains that are ideal for forage. Move your mouse over a grass picture and click. This will take you to a page that has specific information.

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