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NE Iowa | Winter rye or triticale is the perfect match for sudangrass timing wise. The cereal crop comes off or is grazed out right about the time sudangrass should be planted. I tried it a few years but struggled no-tilling the sudangrass into rye stubble. I think the rye stubble hurt the germination of the sudangrass. Tillage would have been better but these fields were really too steep to be doing tillage. The sudangrass always looked super tall but I was usually disappointed in the number of grazing days I got out of it. I have gone to grazing alfalfa to deal with the summer grass slump. I have some alfalfa fields next to my permanent pasture. The grass pasture has plenty of production through July 1st. So I take one cutting of alfalfa around the last week of May. Then I graze the cattle 3 more times on the alfalfa in July, August, and September. Alfalfa keeps growing when the grass goes dormant in the heat of the summer. | |
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Double crop for grazing?
