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southern MN | I fence 40 acres, some is grassy field road, most is corn stalks, perhaps some bean stubble, and 5-15 acres of oats stubble that had turnips, clover, alfalfa mix seeded with it in spring. Oats harvested for grain and straw, the light blow-over oats regrows.
I'm only interested in a fall and winter grazing area, when the snow gets deep I start putting bales out for them.
The turnips are quite large, they eat any greens left, but most of the stuff is after a pretty good frost by the time they get to it after corn harvest, they like the big bulbs as well and learn to shave them with their teeth, like we might eat a pear shaving it down into the ground.
One year it froze hard and snowed deep before I got the cattle out, cone February they stopped eating my hay bales. Here they had discovered the turnips under the spring snow and were digging them out.
Regrowth isn't something I try for. In a very mild winter I have had a few turnips come back in spring, but that is the exeption.
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Cows on turnips and radishes
