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Hay crop ideas after oats? KS

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New to haying and bring in Spring oats in now. I would rather stay with haying since we are investing in equipment for it. Curious what crops could be considered for June planting, fall harvest, and have good feed value to either beef cattlemen, or horse heads?

I am in KS.

If there are no suitable hay crops to consider, I would have to move attention to ANY crop that would work well with this timeline. I am too used to Wheat.
 

If you haven't put your oats in yet you could seed clover or alfalfa with the oats. A guy could also seed brome with the oats for a more permanent hay crop.
 
Plant a stand of alfalfa with the oats. I plant no
grass with my alfalfa. I hate it that way. Others
like it your choice.
 
Certainly not familiar with your warm and dry climate, but only
way to do that here in mn is to plant alfalfa with the oats.

You get a moderate cutting that fall of alfalfa, or if you cut the
oats before it heads out as hay, you may get 2 cuttings of
alfalfa. The following 3 years are the money makers.

Again, 'here' its difficult to plant anything in late June as its too
dry to get hay type crops to root in.

If you get lucky here, the harvested oats will regrow from the
light seeds that blow through the combine and will give a
cutting of oats hay by fall?

Planting times here are until the first week of June, and again
in the last half of August. Doesn't often pay to plant anything in
between, too dry too hot. Don't know what your climate allows.

Paul
 
I appreciate the replies. I am afraid that getting something else planted with the Oat is not a reality for this year. Planting happens tomorrow. However, I am certainly looking down to road as well.

Regardless of what I plant in early June, I need to make sure there is a market for it so I don't end up with a bunch of junk bales that aren't worth the net wrap surrounding them.

Sudan seems to be mostly a beef cattle filler? Sorghum may not dry out very well and still not very marketable?

Corn or Milo and have it custom cut? Roll it up? Soybeans and roll them up if they don't perform? Legumes seem to have a lot of protein and I would think would be marketable. However, I know beans can be costly to bring in.
 
That's what I did last year: followed up the oat hay
with sudan grass. It would have worked better if it
hadn't been so dry but I'm planning on doing it
again this year.
 
Thanks, but what is the value and market on Sudan? I can't imagine too much feed value or desire unless you run beef cattle. Obviously there may be few options and something is better than nothing but...
 
What if we extend this search to uncommon crops or a grain crop? I am certainly not taking Sudan off the table but really want to find the right crop to follow Oats well. I know beans could work but I also know there are some costs there. Just want to take a look from all angles.
 

Look in to teff grass, grows well and produces good tonnage a very palatable to both horses and cattle
 
I believe I was actually looking at Teff. However, some of the data I found showed it might not be as good a choice as Sudan but did have a lot less problems. Tonnage was lower and less protein IIRC.
 
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