You have completed your first cutting
of hay. You can tell that the residual
alfalfa is too thin to leave the stand for another year. In fact, you would like more feed off that
acreage this year. One option:
Interseed a summer annual—for
example, BMR-6 Sudangrass (OR) Dwarf BMR-6 Sorghum Sudan
Seeded at half their normal rate, these will grow with
what is left of your alfalfa, and you can expect two full cuttings reclaiming
your expected yields for the season, that can be either windrow chopped or
baled as you would have harvested your alfalfa.
Note once this stuff
canopies, it not only provides weed control but will stunt off the remaining
alfalfa. Thus, at the end of the
season, you could plant a fall cover crop to harvest in the spring for early
forage (allowing interseeding of a new alfalfa crop) or used as plowdown “free
nitrogen” for a corn crop next season.
Unlike Grandpa’s sorghum
sudangrass hybrids, thes BMR 6 varieties are “dairy quality”feed—plus
they use ½ the nitrogen and water of a late corn crop to produce dry matter
tonnage equal to alfalfas.
TAURUS SERVICE
JOINT MARKETING WITH SEXING TECHNOLOGIES
A new development finds Taurus
Service “Affiliated Sires” working with Sexing Technologies (the
company that provides semen sexing for all the AI systems) to bring both
selected Taurus sires and an equal selection of Trans World
Genetics sires to the AI market in “sexed” straws, at competing prices.
Ask us for the full list. We are stocking a limited number of the
sires but will order any you wish.
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