Legumes
Sunn Hemp
Sunn hemp is an erect, tall growing legume with an anchoring tap root. The leaves are high in protein for grazing and especially popular with small ruminants like sheep, goats, and deer, but cattle will also eat the leaves. The stalk is very lignified making this a poor species to use in a hay mix.
from $2.00 per lb
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Mung Beans
Mung beans are a warm-season legume known for their remarkable heat tolerance and drought resistance. They exhibit rapid growth, maturing in just 65 days. One advantage of mung beans over cowpeas is that their seed pods remain intact, unlike cowpeas, making them an excellent source of late-fall protein for grazing livestock or wildlife. However, it's important to note that mung beans are highly susceptible to cold weather and require a minimum of 60 frost-free days to ensure successful growth. They can be used for both hay production and grazing and are compatible with peanut inoculant. Mung beans typically reach a height of around 3 feet and have a low to medium water usage. Their strengths lie in nitrogen fixation, forage production, and hay production.
from $1.36 per lb
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Cowpeas (Iron & Clay)
Cowpeas are one of the most popular warm season legumes. They love the heat, they tolerate drought, and they offer nitrogen fixation in a soil building mix, or higher protein in an annual grazing mix. Cowpeas have a long maturity which means when they are planted at the beginning of summer, they can achieve a lot of growth before temperatures cool down into fall.
from $1.21 per lb
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Forage Soybeans (Laredo)
Laredo Soybeans are an older soybean variety that is distinguishable from most other soybean varieties since the actual seed is black in color. While growing it will look like a typical PPS (Photoperiod Sensitive) soybean plant. PPS is the developmental response by the plant due to the relative lengths of light and dark periods (Day and night) that adjust its flowering time. These soybeans are excellent in both grazing and or hay situations.
from $1.60 per lb
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Fenugreek - OMRI Inoculated
Fenugreek is not commonly known in the US, but we think it should be. This legume is commonly used in pastures and haying situations. It is known for its livestock health benefits including promoting reproductive and digestive health. In fact some of the top soil scientists in the world recommend adding fenugreek to every livestock diet. This plant looks similar to clover with flowers resembling common peas. As a warm season plant, fenugreek loves sunlight and heat and makes a great addition to any warm season mix for its grazing and N-fixing characteristics. *Please note this is NOT food grade seed and is NOT recommended for human consumption.
from $1.70 per lb
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Korean Lespedeza
Korean lespedeza is a low growing warm season annual legume known for it's ability to tolerate acidic and low fertility soil. They do most of their growing in the months of July and August. Though not high yielding, Korean lespedeza is very highly palatable and does not cause bloat. Annual lespedeza is a small seeded annual legume. Korean lespedeza can be frost seeded or drilled into pastures in midwinter or early spring, emerging in summer, or similarly seeded into a growing wheat crop for a hay or pasture crop after wheat harvest.
from $2.05 per lb
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Aeschynomone (American Joint Vetch)
Aeschynomone, or American joint vetch, is a highly palatable warm season annual legume. Also known as deer vetch, joint vetch is particularly popular among food plot enthusiasts as it attracts wildlife such as whitetail, wild turkey, and bobwhite quail. American joint vetch not only provides excellent nutrition for large animals, but also excellent habitat for game birds. American joint vetch is an excellent way to add diversity to a mix and increase the nitrogen fixing capabilities.
from $7.55 per lb
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Lab Lab (Highworth)
Lab lab is a highly palatable warm season legume native to Africa and Asia. It loves hot and dry conditions and is generally used as forage for livestock or in a food plot situation. Lab lab looks similar to a soybean plant, but generally grows taller and can be quite dense due to it's vining growth pattern.
from $2.35 per lb
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Alyce Clover
Alyce clover is an excellent option for livestock and wildlife alike. Highly palatable and high yielding this plant provides excellent forage. Despite it's name alyce clover is not a true clover, but rather a warm season legume. This is an excellent option for summer forage, added to a warm season grazing mix, or as a wildlife food plot.
from $5.05 per lb
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Non-GMO Soybeans (KS5120NS)
These non-GMO soybeans are an excellent addition to a summer grazing crop, a post-small grain nitrogen fixing crop, or as a food plot for wildlife. It's a group 5 bean with indeterminate growth habit so the forage production potential is very high. This is a great, high protein forage for livestock.
from $1.00 per lb
