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| Swath grazing works especially if your ground freezes hard in winter. Millet seems to be the forage of choice because it's finer steamed and also seems to winter better in the swath. Some years back I planted a forage sorghum-millet mixture late in the summer not expecting much production before freezing. It commenced raining, combined with a late fall, I had to swath is because the millet was producing seed. Never could get it dry enough to bale so finally turned the cows on it. They ate everything, including chewing on the sorghum stubble so the variety of sorghum makes a difference.
I'm in a similar situation, and thinking of trying to simply overseed some of the poor producing perennial fields after either pasturing hard in the spring (my preference) or haying once. I purchased some hay that must of had some viable sorghum seed in it and now have some sorghum coming up where I fed which is what gave me the idea. | |
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Looking for ideas
