Overseeding Annual Ryegrass and Cereal Rye into Soybean as Part of a Multifunctional Cropping System: II. Forage Yield and Nutritive Value
L. B. Smith and R. L. Kallenbach
September 2006
Research
Annual ryegrass and cereal rye were overseeded at different stages of soybean development. All treatments yielded over 2,250 lb of forage per acre each year. Forage nutritive value from annual ryegrass was slightly better than for cereal rye, but both had crude protein concentrations of more than 17% and neutral detergent fiber of less than 56%. The results show that livestock operations in the lower Midwest could use cereal rye and annual ryegrass overseeded into soybean as part of a row crop–winter pasture–row crop rotation.
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