Cover Crop Grazer Mix
Cover Crop Grazer combines beardless barley, triticale, legumes and forage brassicas to provide both cover crop function and seasonal forage potential. The mix brings together cereal forage, nitrogen-fixing legumes and highly digestible brassica species in one diverse cool-season planting.
Mix Components
Cereals, legumes and forage brassicas combine to provide complementary forage and cover crop characteristics.
Cover Crop Function With Forage Potential
Cover Crop Grazer combines species with different growth habits and forage characteristics so the planting can serve more than one purpose.
Cool-Season Cereal Forage
Beardless barley and Forerunner triticale provide a grass component capable of producing substantial vegetative growth and seasonal forage under favorable growing conditions.
High-Quality Brassica Forage
Trophy rape and Subzero kale add highly digestible forage to the mix. Forage brassicas are commonly used to extend grazing opportunities during cooler parts of the year.
Legume Contribution
Frostmaster peas and bell beans add broadleaf forage and biological nitrogen-fixing capability when properly inoculated and successfully nodulated.
Diverse Forage Structure
Cereals provide leafy grass growth, legumes contribute broadleaf forage, and rape and kale add a different forage type within the same stand.
Soil Cover & Root Growth
When actively growing, the mixture maintains living cover and multiple root systems in the field while also producing above-ground forage.
Nutrient Capture
The cereal and brassica components can take up available nutrients during the growing period, holding them within actively growing plant biomass.
Agronomic Note: Forage yield, nutritive value and species expression vary with planting date, temperature, moisture, soil fertility, stand establishment and grazing timing.
Manage the Mix as a Diverse Forage
Because Cover Crop Grazer contains both cereal forage and brassicas, livestock management matters. Animals should be gradually adapted to lush brassica forage, and access to additional dry forage can help maintain a more balanced ration. Avoid turning hungry, unadapted livestock directly onto a lush stand.
Livestock Note: Brassica forage should be managed as part of a balanced livestock diet. Extension guidance recommends adapting livestock gradually to brassicas and providing other forage rather than relying exclusively on brassica material. Consult your livestock nutritionist or veterinarian when needed.
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