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nw NC | I need to plant oats very soon for harvest this spring as silage for my cattle. I many years have had a sufficient stand of volunteer ryegrass start growing in the fall or I've planted wheat in the fall to provide the necessary forage growth for spring silage . This past fall was very dry here and ryegrass did not volunteer nor did I get to plant wheat. If anything would have been seeded, it was too dry to sprout and establish. Then when rain finally started mid-December, it was late and then stayed too wet to do anything in fields until now. There is a small field that has a thick stand of volunteer white clover growing now. The clover by itself makes good feed but yield is not very voluminous. If I were to no-till plant oats into this stand of clover will the oats establish and compete with the clover enough to grow and produce well?
Edit to add that I'd like to have the clover in the harvest also. Clover is high protein.
Edited by WJKEIGER 2/27/2024 16:34
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No-till oats into this clover?
