EC98-149 Summer Annual Forages for the Nebraska Panhandle: Variety Tests, 1989-1992 and 1997

Authors

Burt Weichenthal, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
David D. Baltensperger, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
Patrick E. Reece, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1998

Document Type

Article

Comments

© 1998, The Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska on behalf of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln Extension. All rights reserved.

Abstract

Summer annual forage grasses can provide valuable forage as pasture, green chop, silage, and hay. With adequate soil moisture these forages grow very rapidly during warm summer months. Most varieties are relatively drought resistant because of efficient water use. It is important to select a type and variety most suitable to the system in which it is to used. Nebraska producers have relied primarily on six types of summer annual forage grasses to meet or supplement forage needs. This circular is a summary report of summer annual forage trials conduted in 1989-92 and 1997 to obtain forage production and quality data. Dryland trials were conducted at the High Plains Agricultural Laboratory near Sidney. Irrigated trials were at the Panhandle Research and Extension Center at Scottsbluff.