Winter Oats for Fall Grazing and Forage Quality

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0:12 Ideal we're looking at Bob winter oats here and frankly I'm a little bit surprised. I'm not exactly sure what to say or think about these because this is

0:22 A winter annual. It's not necessarily expected to overwinter once in a while, if we get some good snow cover, but typically for overwintering, you need to be...

0:37 Getting down into Oklahoma in Texas for these to really be fall planted and overwinter consistently and well. So these are planted in April. I don't think it got cold enough to fertilize these.

0:48 But you can see that these are closing headed out and Brook they look quite nice so I'm shocked I'm a little bit surprised at how well they look being a wintery annual planted in April so maybe.

1:02 Somebody watching this video will tell us. I just want to ask Dale, you know what about Bob? Well, of all the cereals, oats have the best forage quality. And so if you are in a region where you know if.

1:26 Your situations that you desire quality forward animal performance and you can grow a winner out. You're going to get better animal performance out of petals then you go out pretty Kelly or dry or.

1:39 Even barley. Just have better fortune. Also, it gives you some diversity. They're not susceptible to some of the diseases that affect wheat, triticale, or rye.

2:17 Very good quality but the other thing, you know, like up here in Nebraska and before their party Ganz's we do some winter roads we can use these as a plan to crop not necessarily thank you that.

2:32 They're going to overwinter just to get more growth deeper into the fall and early part of winter. So like for some of these prevented planted acres this year, this might be a good choice plan in.

2:42 August knowing that it's going to grow deeper into November than what what a white spring. Oh right, and there's that extra degree of cold tolerance, stay green longer. It also tends the white.

2:58 Heads to turn spring is November, December and the looser converge quality. If grazing in late bullets is priority, that's where the blackouts or the Bob winter roads. It's really shy they maintain that forage quality longer into the ball and what the spring.