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Evaluation of Annual Crops as Pasture for Early-Weaned Lambs¹

Agricultural Research Service, U. S. Department of Agriculture and Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, St. Paul

Abstract

Average total gain in pounds of lamb per acre for three combinations of annual crops were: oats-rape, 313; peas followed by corn, 286; oats-peas followed by Sudangrass, 291. Oats-rape provided the most suitable summer pasture for the longest period; oats for early grazing while the less palatable rape was available later. Sudangrass also performed well under grazing while oats-peas, peas and corn were satisfactory for short periods. Solid-seeded corn supported very high stocking rates. Yields from clipped plots of annual crops should not be used to estimate the grazing periods, stocking rates or total gains which might be obtained under grazing.

¹ Paper No. 4534, Scientific Journal Series, Minnesota Agricultural Experiment Station, St. Paul, Minnesota. Research in cooperation with the Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics and the Department of Animal Husbandry, University of Minnesota, and with the Crops Research Division, Agricultural Research Service, United States Department of Agriculture.

² Present address: Department of Agronomy, Ames, Iowa.