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Forage and fodder crops

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Forage and fodder crops include forage sorghum, pennisetum, millet, lablab, cowpeas, soybeans, grain sorghum and maize. Choice will depend on sowing time and feed quantity and quality requirements. Other factors such as soil type, drainage, weeds and disease may also need to be considered. The agronomy and management used can have a greater influence on the crop productivity than the variety chosen.

Crops

  • Burgundy bean - a new summer growing legume
  • Forage brassicas - quality crops for livestock production
  • Forage brassicas for autumn/winter milk production
  • Forage sorghum and millet
  • Sulla
  • Summer legume forage crops: cowpeas, lablab, soybeans
  • Tagasaste (tree lucerne)
  • Yield and digestibility of legume and oat forages

Management guide

  • Pasture and winter forage crop sowing guide

General information

  • Cereals for grazing
  • Forage options for summer and autumn
  • Summer forage crop and grain choices for the NSW coast south of Coffs Harbour
Uniform and well established grain sorghum crop east of Moree NSW
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