Good evening just want idea what kind of 2 row barley gives a decent amount of straw. We have cattle and bale our straw it seems that most varieties are short for the grain farmer who doesn't want a lot straw what kind would give us more to bale thank you
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Cowboy gives plenty of straw and is great forage but the grain yield is no hell. My ground isn't great for barley but when xena is running 60-70 cowboy runs 50-60. It's bred to give lots of forage under low management and lower fertility.
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Cheapest forage for us to grow is barley, wheat, and oats mixed in equal proportion. Simply what's left over after seeding the combining crops. Usually don't use oats anymore because of wild oat problems. Cowboy barley if you seed at least 100 lbs per acre forms a thick canopy and chokes a lot of weeds. Think better grain varieties actually produce a more potent nutritional package and better palatability but cowboy handles stress way better. Too many grain types are so short and really pack it in if it gets dry. We yellow feeded all our forage this year and I'm thinking we'll keep doing that as it sure preserved forage quality leaving it stand to cure through all the rains.
Hay is still the best feed for cows but getting it up in good shape is difficult and time consuming, and bloody expensive once the stand hits the 4 or 5 year mark. The yield starts dropping and the ground gets rough. I can vouch that it takes 3 times longer to put up the same acres of hay as greenfeed and less hay bales. We seldom do better than 3 bales of hay per acre while greenfeed runs a bale better.
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