Cover Crop Grasses

Oats

• Goliath or Buffalo varieties
• Excellent forage yield
• Excellent disease resistance package, resistant to crown rust, stem rust, barley yellow dwarf and smut
• Plant at 3/4" to 1-1/2" depth at 70-90 lbs/acre

• Thuder Graze Ultra or VNS
• Spring silage option for fall and winter grazing
• Awnless characteristic, leading to good hay and silage production
• Nutrient mitigation for livestock confinement operations
• High tonnage resulting from spring silage harvest

Winter Wheat

• Beardless Forage varieties LCS T-173 & AP Baldy
• Great winter cover option when not wanting rye/triticale
• Longer stay green than cereal rye
• Great drought tolerance and disease resistance

Spring Forage Barley

• Hayes two-rowed, hooded hay barley
• Adapted for a wide variety of growing conditions and climates
• Early maturing variety that produces a high yielding and uniform crop
• Fine stem that aids in feeding and digestibility

• Excellent winter hardiness and yield potential
• Early maturity, high quality forage
• Used for late fall and winter grazing
• Awnletted six-row barley

Winter Cereal Rye

• VNS or Elbon varieties
• Popularly used as a cover crop for early weed suppression
• Taller and quicker spring green up that wheat
• Nutrient catch crop absorbing unused soil N
• Pair with winter annual like hairy vetch to offset soil N tie up.

Spring Triticale

• Use as spring hay crop or spring/fall cover crop
• Extended harvest window for quality vs. oats or barley
• Drought tolerant in limited moisture environments

Sorghum Sudangrass

• 117 PPS, 118 DM, 119, 169 BMR, 179 BMR SCA PPS, 189 BMR DS, 199 BMR BY, Piper Sudangrass
• See tech sheets on each in Forage Sorghum section
• Used for a variety of reasons including forage production

Millet

• German Strain R, Golden German, 419 Hybrid Pearl Millet
• Used for summer hay crop or in cover crop mixes
• Drought tolerant warm season crop
• Seed 12-25 lbs./ac. at depth of .5”-1.0”

Forage Sorghums

• 219 MS, 269 BMR MS, 329 SCA, 363 BMR BY, 399 BMR BY
• See tech sheets on each variety in Forage Sorghum section
• Used for a variety of reasons including forage production