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Double cropping forages offers high quality emergency feed
ST. PAUL, Min,. - Double
cropping of forages offers
livestock producers in the upper
Midwest and Northeast a
promising system to produce high
quality feed and more fully utilize
land and facilities.
A combination of barley grown
and harvested early as silage
followed by another forage for fall
grazing has provided high yields of
good quality forage in research
here by agronomist Gordon C.
Marten, USDA’s Agricultural
Research Service.
The system would fit well.
Marten says, where dairy and beef
cattle producers have year-around
silage storage facilities. It offers
an excellent way to meet
emergency forage needs following
winter kill of such perennial
forages as alfalfa or in a cropping
system where a perennial may be
inappropriate, he says.
The early harvest of a small
grain crop as silage also greatly
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because of wind, rain and hail, he
says, and enables livestock
producers to more fully utilize
labor, equipment, and storage
before harvesting com as silage
later in the season.
Marten compared yields and
quality of small grain crops grown
and harvested as forage. Assisted
by graduate student J.H. Chemey,
he found that barley usually yields
more forage dry matter, digestible
dry matter, and crude protein than
do oats, wheat, or triticale. This
led to a close examination of
barley as a first crop in a double
cropping annual system. It also led
to a study, now in progress, to find
out how good a companion crop
barley may be compared to oats.
In double cropping forage,
Marten says barley must be
planted as early as possible in the
spring and harvested for silage at
least by June 20 under Minnesota
conditions. Barley will then be in
the boot or early heading stages
depending on the year. A second
crop is then planted immediately.
Besides Sudangrass and annual
ryegrass. Marten and R.M. Jor
dan, University of Minnesota
ruminant nutritionist, are studying
soybeans, cowpeas, turnips, forage
rape and the common weed kochia
as potential second crops for
grazing in August through Oc
tober
Nat’l Broiler Council president addresses DPI
GEORGETOWN, Del. - George
B. Watts, president of the National
Broiler Council, will be the
featured speaker at the annual
meeting of Delmarva Poultry
Industry, Inc. on Tuesday, Oct. 12.
The meeting is to be held at the
Delmarva Power and Light
Company auditorium in Salisbury
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Marten equates the feed value of
barley silage harvested at the boot
stage with that of top grade alfalfa,
whereas that harvested at dough
stage is considerably lower
equal to third or fourth-grade
alfalfa. This quality loss is caused
by increased lignification of stem
tissue between boot to dough
stages.
“The leaf doesn’t change that
Watts will discuss “The National
Broiler Council and Issues Facing
the U.S. Broile* - Industry." Watts,
a native of Georgia, spent seven
years as a legislative assistant for
Georgia Congressmen in
Washington assisting with their
work on the House Agriculture
Committee. Since 1972, he has been
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much with maturity,” he says,
‘‘but the stem changes very
dramatically as it accumulates
lignin. Lignin ties up the cellulose
and hemicellulose in the stem and
Is itself indigestible. This makes
lignin the primary culprit that
causes overall loss of quality as the
plant matures, even though grain
is accumulating at the same
time.”
president of the National Broiler
Council in Washington.
Other business to come before
the annual DPI meeting will be the
election of officers and directors of,
the association for 1983. All DPI
members and other interested
persons are invited to attend.
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