Stocker Steve
Well-known member
I attended their winter meeting for the first time. Organized by the university and sponsored by 19 seed companies. Alot of senior dairy producers attended, and they had the choice of two flavors of milk and two flavors of ice cream at lunch!!! More than a few carb loaded at lunch and then went home for a nap.
Main sales pitch was planting low lignin alfalfa and making baleage on time. Must not be much money in clover seed. There was one beef annual "cover crop" talk that used alot of SD data. Their home run experiment was double cropping an oats mix for baleage in the spring, followed by a inter seeded German millet mix that they stockpiled for winter grazing. I have usually used SS based mixes but the grazing harvest percentage on mature SS is low, around 20% of DM, and conventional SS leaves you a 10 to 14' stalk to deal with. I have not paid up for the BMR varieties.
Any comments on growing and stockpiling German millet? Looked like a fraction of the cost of hay.
Main sales pitch was planting low lignin alfalfa and making baleage on time. Must not be much money in clover seed. There was one beef annual "cover crop" talk that used alot of SD data. Their home run experiment was double cropping an oats mix for baleage in the spring, followed by a inter seeded German millet mix that they stockpiled for winter grazing. I have usually used SS based mixes but the grazing harvest percentage on mature SS is low, around 20% of DM, and conventional SS leaves you a 10 to 14' stalk to deal with. I have not paid up for the BMR varieties.
Any comments on growing and stockpiling German millet? Looked like a fraction of the cost of hay.