Let's jump back in on that conversation between David Woodruff, our host, and Taff Hughes, custom harvester from Great Bend, Kansas.
So now, is that fall rye?
Yes. Yes, correct.
Fall rye is a big crop up here. Not that it's so much of it is grown, but rye is forgiving, you can do everything wrong and it will still give you a good crop. Just historically, it hasn't sold for very much.
So, but it's so great for keeping bean ground and potato ground from blowing.
Yeah, and that's where we can raise it here in the sand. It keeps it from blowing. And then also, if you get fall moisture, you can really get some good grazing out of it, we raise a lot and feed our calves on rye here through the winter.
Does anybody use it for silage?
Yes. That's getting more popular. Some of the feed lots are doing that now on the irrigated. They take it for silage. Never used to. It looked quite a bit. Used to be harvested for grain and now it mainly grays in it out. And it depends on the price.
We have a feedlot that I'm neighbor to and they've been, oh, it must be over 20 years now. And the original owners, they used to plant grain corn and if the price of corn was up, they could combine it.
Great Bend Kansas custom harvester, Taff Hughes with our host David Woodruff.
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