B-1122.4

 

Forages of All Seasons – Cereal Crops:

Management for Supplemental and Emergency Forage

 

By David Koch, Department of Plant Sciences, and

Steven Paisley, Department of Animal Science

 

 

            Cereal crops like wheat, triticale, rye, oats, and barley are well adapted to Wyoming. Because of this, such varieties of cereal crops grown for grain can be used for forage, thus adding flexibility to a forage-livestock program.

 

            Forages of All Seasons – Cereal Crops: Management for Supplemental and Emergency Forage explains how cereal crops can be used to extend a growing season, provide early grazing before perennials are available, allow deferment of range grazing, offer an alternative to early-spring grazing of meadows, and supplement range, pasture, and perennial hay crops in years of short forage supply.