Field peas grown with barley, oats, triticale, or wheat provide excellent livestock forage. The cereal crop protects the soil during winter when field pea growth is slow, and provides a support for vines to climb, keeping pea vegetation of the ground where it is more likely to rot.
Understanding Forage Pea Varieties - Saskatchewan Pulse Growers
Forage peas are grown for their biomass yield, digestibility, protein, and relative feeding values, primarily for the beef and dairy industries. Newer forage varieties produce on average four to five tonnes per acre of forage dry matter, similar to forage …
Oat and pea forage combinations - MSU Extension
2016年8月18日 · Oat and forage pea mixtures can provide a good quality and good yielding forage option for livestock and dairy producers. Oats and peas can be planted as a nurse crop for alfalfa or other hay seedings, or grown alone.
Pea and Small Grain Mixtures - Team Forage
The data (in table 1) show that adding peas to oats improved forage quality by increasing protein content 3 to 5 points and reducing NDF by 4 to 8 points. Adding peas to barley increased protein 2 to 4 points and reduced NDF by 5 to 9 points. Similar responses would be expected with peas added to spring triticale.
Field Pea Production | NDSU Agriculture
Field pea often is used in forage crop mixtures with small grain. Field pea forage is approximately 18% to 20 % protein. Pea interseeded at 60 to 100 pounds per acre with a small grain such as oat can increase the protein concentration of the mixed forage by 2 to 4 percentage points and increase the relative feed value by 20 points over oat ...
Objectives. Assess genetic variability and genetic correlation of forage yield and quality traits in UIUC oat germplasm under oat-pea intercrop conditions. Evaluate the general mixing ability (GMA) and specific mixing ability (SMA) of UIUC oat germplasm in oat-pea mixtures.
Field pea may also be grown as a forage crop, where it is typically planted as a mixture with cereal grains to enhance the protein concentration of the forage. Field pea in such mixtures will increase digestibility, protein, and energy content of the forage.
Field Peas - SARE
Field peas grow rapidly in the cool, moist weather they encounter as winter annuals in the South and in parts of Idaho, and as early-sown summer annuals in the Northeast, North Central and Northern Plains areas. Harvest options as high-quality forage and seed increase their value.
Why and how to make pea silage — The Silage Consultant
2023年7月23日 · Why would I want to grow forage peas? Peas can be a great fit into a crop rotation. They are spring sown, fast growing, a break crop to cereals that require low inputs and they also fix nitrogen. On top of all that - they are a great forage protein so what’s not to like?
Forage peas offer feed quality and versatility as forage crops
2019年8月5日 · Forage peas are versatile crops which can be grown on their own or partnered with a forage cereal to produce high yielding and high feed-quality cereal silage. Sown on their own, forage peas can yield up to 18 tonnes of dry matter per hectare and when sown in a cereal combination, forage peas have the ability to enhance the protein content of ...