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The Cattle Farmer

intercropping

Extend Your Grazing Season

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Learn from ranchers across Western Canada who are using intercropping to keep the soil covered, improve farm profitability, provide a balanced feed ration (energy & protein) & extend the grazing season.

 

The round-up-ready Forage Soybeans makes this an easy-to-implement strategy.

Intercropping 101

Corn silage/forage soybeans

Planted as an intercropping companion with your corn, Forage Soybeans LS contain the round-ready herbicide trait, which makes this an easy-to-implement intercropping strategy to increase protein in your silage pile & provide extended grazing/residual nitrogen.

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Intercrop: Oats/Hairy Vetch

Theory: The oats (cool-season grass) provides a micro-climate for the vetch (cool-season legume). In return, the vetch protects the soil and provides late-season nitrogen to the system.

Value To The Farm: Extended Grazing

Intercrop: Corn/Hairy Vetch

Theory: After 3 years research, we have concluded the ideal direction to seed is North/South. In the heat of the day, sunlight is able to penetrate the North/South rows, providing the vetch with enough sunlight to establish.

Value To The Farm: Extended Grazing

Intercrop: Sunflower/Hairy Vetch

Theory: The sunflower (warm season broadleaf) provides a micro-climate for the vetch (cool season legume). In return, the vetch protects the soil and provide late season nitrogen to the system.

Value To The Farm: Extended Grazing

Let us know about your intercrop ideas, successes, & Failures.

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