Mungbeans: Heat-Tolerant Summer Legume for Grazing and Wildlife

0:00 These are mung beans. Mung beans are another one of the warm season legumes that we use a lot of in the summer time.

0:07 Small seeded, very, very heat tolerant, probably even a little better drought tolerance. And even cow peas, and that's.

0:14 Saying something grows faster than a copy. There are shorter season maturity than what a copy is, and so these mung.

0:22 Beans they're already forming quite a few pods and we'll have seed in there. Don't know if these will actually make.

0:28 Viable seed those probably would but excellent for grazing excellent as part of a mix one plant can have quite a bit.

0:37 Of production here so this is one mung bean plant, lots of biomass in that, and the seed size is about half the size of.

0:46 The cow pee to sow the seed costs a little more than cow peas but you get a lot more seeds per pound. Yeah, one other.

0:59 Something that's going to have a little better late fall protein value. These pods will hang on the plants much better.

1:07 than cow peas will without shattering so you can get a pretty high protein concentrate for grazing livestock or

1:16 Wildlife much later into the fall than you can with cow peas and mung beans. Like cow peas are very sensitive to cold.

1:22 Weather so I would say you want at least sixty days of growth before your first frost to really have a nice growth on them and make it worthwhile.