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Southern Illinois | We have about 20 acres of wheat I was growing for silage but somehow we mixed up our bearded and beardless varieties and what little wheat is growing is bearded. It's starting to head. Unfortunately the stand of actual wheat is thinner than I thought and apparently most of what's out there is volunteer mouse barley, Farmers foxtail, or whatever the official name is for that small grass that grows with beards in row crop fields in the spring, (hordeum murinum?) It has headed out and has beards but they're still somewhat tender as the plants have not started maturing yet. I was planning on cutting this for silage. Do you think that might still be a possibility and that the silage will make the beards palatable for cattle to eat during the winter or is it too risky? We have already invested nitrogen and a herbicide pass on these acres | |
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What to do with mouse barley
