Willow Creek Wheat: Extended Grazing into Early Summer

0:03 We're gonna start out here talking about winter wheat and we've got several different types of winter wheat here. This plot that I'm standing in is a

0:12 Forage winter wheat, it's a variety called Willow Creek and it is a very, very long season forage. It's probably the longest season the winter cereal that.

0:21 You can plant if you can see this stuff is not even thinking about heading out yet. Where are the other wheats and the tree to Kaling's and the Rye or are all.

0:30 Either fully headed or almost fully headed, so Willow Creek, the fit that it has would be you plant it and it's the last thing that you graze because it.

0:39 Will hold its forage quality the deepest end of the spring and even the early summer as any of the winter cereals.

0:46 And one of the problems we run into when

0:48 People are trying to do a forage system based mostly on annuals. Is that the winter annuals? Most of the winter annuals really lose their quality once

0:59 They head out which happens usually in mid-May and the summer annuals really aren't ready to graze until July so that leaves a month to six weeks with really.

1:21 Quality forage that's something we're very excited about. So kind of that mid-May to mid-June summer slump, we can kind of help build that. It's about the

1:33 Same height as the other wheats based on what we've seen in the past as Willow Creek is going to get another I would say eighteen inches to 24 inches of.

1:41 Growth before it fully heads out. So there's a lot of forage potential to come yet on this one.

1:48 It's not very impressive looking.

1:51 Now in a month this will be phenomenal. Leafy tall dense forage this. Beep Brown it'll be straw he'll be stuck.