sandblaster
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How many here have used peanut hay as feed and what is your experience with it?
Has anyone tried it as a forage crop?
Has anyone tried it as a forage crop?
Perennial Peanut Hay
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sandblaster":1ejqc9mr said:
My uncle was a peanut farmer and he used to bale the stuff. I heard it has a lot of sand and will grind down the teeth quicker. Don't know about the nurtition. I just remember that it was dirty and full of burs! But around here, I'd take some. I don't know that he ever used it for forage, but I could be wrong.
Arnold Ziffle
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I have a friend that tried perennial peanutst here in Texas but he never got a decent stand. Planting into black gumbo land probably didn't help! I was keen to give it a try myself but my land is similar to his so I just passed on it. I suspected that perennial peanuts like a more sandy soil, somewhat like you have in many parts of Florida and Georgia.
sandblaster, you are of course inquiring about the forage peanut plant and not the common "goober" producing plant, so you are probably pretty up to date on it, but the following might be of a little interest:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AA148
sandblaster, you are of course inquiring about the forage peanut plant and not the common "goober" producing plant, so you are probably pretty up to date on it, but the following might be of a little interest:
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/AA148
http://www.florida-agriculture.com/peanuthay or call The Perennial Peanut Producers Association 386 842-5293
Caustic Burno
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Great hay cows love it and I like it as long as I don't have haul the razor blade stuff.
