Filling the Late Spring Planting Gap with Early-Season Forages

0:00 Hey Dale, how's it going?

0:09 You got a quick question for you. A lot of people are worried that it's

0:12 Too late to plant some of the cool season crops but we're still a little early for warm season mixes. What's a

0:19 Good way to fill this gap. Yeah, I've been getting the same question a lot. It's kind of late for oats, peas, spring barley.

0:27 But too early for sorghum sedan and our other traditional summer crops, so what I'm telling people is to look at the

0:36 Same crops planning for row crops right now: corn, soybeans, and sunflowers they'll grow at.

0:43 A 55 degrees soil temperature instead of having to wait for a 60 degree soil temperature like sorghum's and.

0:51 Millet which need even warmer temperatures so you can gain about a month on the forage production season by

1:12 It thick and you can be out there either cutting hay or grazing as early as June. So after that there's still plenty of.

1:20 Time left to get a summer mix in is that correct? Yeah yeah I mean June is prime time to be planting sorghum Sudan pearl.

1:28 Millet, calpis, some hemp, mung beans, all the traditional summer grazing crops that we.

1:35 We've always used the corn. The drawback of the corn and soybeans is that they don't regrow well after hanging or grazing, so it would be important to maximize your forage production to plant something after you harvest the corn bean.

1:55 Yeah, well, no, that sounds really good. Thanks for the tip, Dale, and we will talk to you later. Okay, all right. Thanks, Dale. Have a great day.