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paul 10-14-2012 09:02:52 66.44.133.112 Report to Moderator	I swath and combine the oats. Bale the straw off. I feed the oats to my cattle. I often have a wagon or 2 extra, sell to the coop down the road. They have a feed mill, buy oats. This year had 2 fellas call, wanting to buy oats from me. Was a bad hailstorm couple miles north of me in June, wiped out sa lot of crop, beat up their oats. A 5 acre patch of the cover crop/ oat stubble I typically graze this time of year. Cows on turnips - now there is an aroma. :) --->Paul [Reply]   [No Email]
Animal 10-14-2012 15:18:33 76.0.44.102 Report to Moderator	Re: Cover crops in reply to paul, 10-14-2012 09:02:52   Here is a thought for you, I tried it this year with my winter wheat and worked well, I am going to do it again. I broadcast some tillage radish seed into my wheat early this spring and let it go to seed. When I combined my wheat that light seed blew out the back of the combine and now I have some real decent size radish, and not a bad stand. [Reply]  [No Email]
paul 10-14-2012 19:51:33 66.44.133.112 Report to Moderator	Re: Cover crops in reply to Animal, 10-14-2012 15:18:33   I did the same thing a few years ago, didn't know the radish would go to seed instead of root when planted early! Had the same in oats, got a lot of seeds in the grain sample - but no problem for feeding. And what blew over grew real nice like you say. Turnips offer more feed for the cows, the raddish are neat too. --->Paul [Reply]  [No Email]
Animal 10-15-2012 05:40:48 76.0.44.102 Report to Moderator	Re: Cover crops in reply to paul, 10-14-2012 19:51:33   I was thinking when I replied that you really had it going on with the turnips. [Reply]  [No Email]