Cosaque Black Oats for Fall Stockpile Grazing
See how Cosaque black oats performed over a harsh winter in our test plot. Learn why this variety stays vegetative longer than white oats, makes excellent fall and early winter forage, and develops a deep root system—making it ideal for August plantings when you need livestock feed in November and December.
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0:02 All right, this one here really surprised me. I did not expect to see this. This is Cossack black oats. It is a I wouldn't
0:13 Say it's a proof but it certainly has more cold tolerance than the white out species. We have seen it over winter.
0:21 Before but not always up here.
0:23 Our production on this is being done in North Texas they can do production as.
0:29 Far north as you know parts of Tennessee, areas like that it consistently over winters but I was really.
0:36 Completely shocked how well this overwintered and again I don't know how much of it had to do with just kind of.
0:41 Being protected from some wind we typically would not recommend this even in Kansas as they fall planted crop for.
0:49 Something to overwinter, but again we were just trying it. It is a great plant to put out in August, yes, because it's.
1:03 Good forage out and it will grow deep into the fall and early winter for that kind of that stockpile type grazing.
1:10 Right and it tends not to head out from a late summer planning like your white oats will and of course anytime a grass.
1:17 Plant heads out, you lease forage quality, and this you can plant it July, August, and you're not going to have a bunch of.
1:28 Headed out plants come November and December when you want to turn out there. The livestock just refused to eat this, is going to stay very vegetative, high quality. The root system is phenomenal. It does cost a little bit more because it is not nearly as good a seed yield or as regular white spring of. This is Cossack Flacco's.