Sunday, April 1, 2018
Using Annual Forages as Part of the Feed Resource for the Ranch – A Producer's Perspective
Listen to a discussion of the content in this article on this episode of the BeefWatch podcast. You can subscribe to new episodes in iTunes or paste http://feeds.feedburner.com/unlbeefwatch into your podcast app.
In this month's BeefWatch Producer Perspective Podcast, Brian Sprenger who is part of a family owned and operated ranch near Sidney shares how his family utilizes annual forages as grazing resource. Some of the topics that Brian discusses in the interview include:
- How annual forages are used for growing cattle through the fall and winter.
- The different variety of annuals and mixes of annual forages used in their system.
- How windrow grazing is used to preserve quality while improving harvest efficiency
- The challenges and benefits that annual forages have provided in their production system.
The BeefWatch podcast is the audio companion to the monthly BeefWatch newsletter and also features bonus interviews such as the Producer Perspective.