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SW MN Fulda | We are wanting a place to go with some liquid hog manure in the summer vs trying to get it applied in the spring, so we are wanting to implement a small grain to either harvest or do silage with for feedlot cattle. feed 400 head from 500#-finish.
location: southwest minnesota
Thought 1: (Advised by millborn seed) Plant an oat/pea mix early spring and take for silage in 70 days, inject hog manure and then wait a week or so to dry back out, VT over that, then plant sorghum sudangrass in for an october timeframe silage. Will these feedstuffs be adequate and cost efficient for feeding cattle vs corn silage (will also have corn silage put up). Pros and cons to this idea?
Thought 2: plant oats first week in april. have the option to do oatlage, or also could wait and harvest the oats and bale the straw, then come back with another mix to be able to create feed for. Our original thought was ryelage after the oats, but was advised not to have 2 cool season plants in a row.
how will these feedstuffs compare to silage nutritionally and also what type of price correlation vs silage (Dads ground for the crops that i would have to buy for my cattle, so would like to know how price compares roughly)
Thanks!
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Oat/pea silage for feedlot cattle....will this plan work?
