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southern MN | In spring I've planted oats with 2/3 'plowdown blend (alfalfa, red clover, sweet clover) and 1/3 turnip seed. about 12 lbs total on the little seeds.
Swath & combine the oats, bale the straw, graze the mess of oats, clover, alfalfa, turnip that comes up.
Cattle are nutz for it.
Problems: My soil is wet & low, turnips don't loke that so much. Timing isn't the best, lot of turnip kraut that gets cut off with the swather. Lot of traffic on the turnips.
Pretty good production tho & happy cows if I catch an august rain, not much time or fuel spent on it at worst I get a little N fixed to pay for the seeds. Typically the time the grass pasture here in MN goes dormant. I often have cornstalks next to it & graze everything, cattle get quite a mix.
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