Posted by tjdub on August 28, 2012 at 14:42:59 from (208.28.88.253):
In Reply to: seeding alfalfa posted by Kobe Johnson on August 27, 2012 at 12:24:16:
What I do is take first crop off around June 1, then immediately plow it and seed sudangrass. Sudangrass is ready to cut by July 15, then again by August 20. Then in the spring I seed oats w/alfalfa.
The only trouble is Sudangrass is tough to dry down for hay. If you don't have any way to wrap it for balage, it probably isn't going to work well. Also, you have to buy nitrogen which gets expensive. Oh, and horses can't eat it.
Other alternatives are pearl millet or teff. I've never tried teff, but one year I tried pearl millet and it only ended up yielding about half as many bales as the sudangrass or sorghum-sudangrass.
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