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Depends on your goals. Sorghum Sudan and Pearl Millet will produce more pounds of beef per acre....but Im a polyculture guy, and like to plant mixes. Add to those some sunn hemp, crabgrass, and a little buckwheat and your have yourself some salad bar beef. The cowpea stockpiles reasonable...

Been planting annual mixes for the past 9 years down here in GA, experimenting with different blends. Most of my annual acreage is clean till that I oscillate between summer and winter annuals, so take my recommendations with that consideration. I've tried overseeding bahia/bermuda pastures...

In south GA, hybrid turnips like T-raptor and Winfred have been a good companion crop to my spring oats planted in September. The small seeded brassicas really like a prepared seedbed though. If you are overseeding, considering grazing radish, although cows will choose many other brassicas...

Agree with GA prime. 50lbs is fine for a cover crop, but I would double that for grazing. Only hesitation is moisture. You won't be happy with the expenditure if it stays dry.

of course this is a classic extension answer, "it depends". :) soil type, ph, climate, existing forages, management, etc. will all affect your outcome between the annual crimson and the perennial white clover (Durana). At my ranch in south Ga, the Durana took a few years to get a foothold...

spent a good while tooling through the website and couldn't find them...where were they located at site?

Let me know if you find those cable brackets...i've seen them at a dairy and looked for a few hours on the internet unsuccessfully as well.

I've seen fairly good shape anderson in-line wrappers sell for $10-$16k around here ($30k new abouts), but you still have to be wrapping for a few hundred cows for it to be worth the investment...unless you were doing custom work. I assume you're talking about a thin stemmed grass, and not a...

Just found this thread...I know one thing. Bahia grass can be difficult to terminate. I think I would try a couple seasons of annuals prior to the switch to T-85, just to be safe. Only disadvantage would be the tillage involved.

I agree with ebenezer here and the others. A monoculture of soybeans is not a good return per dollar spent, and I do prefer iron and clay over forage soybean over traditional soybean. In the southeast I good summer annual mix should go heavy on pearl millet or one of the sorghums (with the...

the SS, PM, and Sunn Hemp dominate the stand early...you get most of your early work out of them. Normally, the others come on more after the first grazing.

Lost a bull to Hairy Vetch toxicity 3 year ago. I still plant it in mixes every year. It's the most productive winter legume I've ever encountered, and re-seeds aggressively. The bull I lost was in group of 30 bulls, he was the oldest, and was grazing it in mostly a monoculture for about 3...

sandy loam....5.8-6.3ph. we try to maintain above 6.0

Pearl Millet also has an amazing ability to survive very little moisture, and then grows exponentially once it receives water.

pearl millet is a little easier to manage (Sorghum Sudan has a tendency to get stemmier) and grows in lower pH soils...it also does not attract sugar cane aphids, if you are within their reach. You can probably get slightly better ADG's out of SS. In south GA, we can often start planting...

I've been planting summer annual mixes for the past 6 years in south Ga. These are my favorite species...roughly in order: Pearl Millet (tif leaf 3 and BMR 360 King agri) Sunn Hemp Sorghum Sudan (fear the sugar cane aphid if you're in the south...i only put a few pounds in) Crabgrass Cowpea...

I would try and borrow a penetrometer (extensions sometimes has one) and test the resistance of your soils (be mindful, wet soggy soils tend to test different than drought soils). If you have over 300lbs resistance, you have a compaction problem that probably needs steel. (I'd use the...

I've bought from Gayland ward before. Good products and very reasonably priced.

True grit- How many pounds of Alyce would you put in a mix? 4-8 lbs? How aggressive does it grow compared to the other summer annuals?

Research i've seen, and I think it was in GA, was that they were concentrated mainly in July-Early August...and yes, they will suck the sugar out of the plant, and leave sticky deposits on the leaves. I baled a field after the damage was done and we had to clean the rollers in the baler 4 times...