COVER CROP DIET

摘要

When livestock producers were faced with little to no feed on drought-stricken ground as well as soaring feed costs, many turned to cover crops as a solution."There's been an uptick in cover crop interest over the last 10 years. In the last three to four years, we've seen the greatest increased interest," says Rob Kallenbach, Extension agronomist with the University of Missouri. "A combination of things is coming together to make this happen. With high cattle and corn prices, producers wanted to get cattle to gain more quickly. They began to look across their fields and realized they had a really great feed that no one had a plan for."From tillage radishes to turnips to cereal rye, producers are seeding more acres in an attempt to close the gap between profit and loss.