• Alfalfa
  • About
  • Videos
  • Cover Crops
  • Forage
  • Wildlife
  • Seed Guides
  • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
  • Find a CISCO Seeds Dealer
Menu

CISCO Farm Seed

Hay, Pasture, Summer Annuals, Cover Crops
  • Alfalfa
  • About
  • Videos
  • Cover Crops
  • Forage
  • Wildlife
  • Seed Guides
  • Blog
  • Newsletter
  • Contact
  • Find a CISCO Seeds Dealer

N-Vest Nutribuilder Mix

Fall Cover Crop Mix Doing the Job

November 3, 2020

It’s important to get maximum benefit out of your fall-planted cover crop. Choose the species or mix that will have maximum benefit for the following year’s cash crop, while also remembering the long-term benefits associated with the ongoing use of cover crops.

Read More
In Cover Crops Tags cover crops, annual ryegrass, crimson clover, radish
Comment

Grazing Summer Annual Mix

August 31, 2020

This is a summer annual mix consisting of pearl millet, sorghum sudangrass, forage sorghum, and radish. This area was bale grazed the previous winter.

In Grazing, Summer Forage Tags sorghum sudangrass, grazing
Comment
Sweet Six 2.jpg

Planting Sorghum Sudangrass After Triticale Harvest - Strategy

April 21, 2020

Sweet Six is the fastest growing hybrid, highest forage quality sorghum sudangrass that we offer. BMR sorghum sudangrass works very well in the Midwest. This hybrid is a very quick growing dry stalk with high yields.

Read More
In Summer Forage Tags sorghum sudangrass, Sweet Six BMR Sorghum Sudangrass
Comment

When is the ideal time to start grazing?

April 4, 2020

Yes, there is green grass. Yes, both you and the livestock are more than eager to utilize it. Yes, you both should wait before grazing it.

It is one of the hardest times of the season for some people, me included. We are tired of mud and tired of feeding hay. There is an increasing amount of fresh new lush green grass beckoning to be grazed. Why shouldn’t you allow the cows to partake in this new growth? When is the ideal time to start grazing?

Read More
In Grazing, Rotational Grazing Tags grazing, grazing management
Comment

What's the best grass to interseed into my alfalfa?

April 1, 2020

Are you considering adding some grass into an existing stand of alfalfa? You have many options. Your choices will vary greatly, depending on the intended end-use. Check out a few of them here.

Read More
In Overseeding a hay field Tags overseeding hay field, orchardgrass, tall fescue, meadow brome, meadow fescue
Comment
← Newer Posts Older Posts →

Videos

  • Alfalfa
  • Drill Calibration
  • Soil Sampling
  • bale grazing
  • cover crops
  • mult-species cover crops
  • pasture evaluation
  • pasture fertility
  • pasture management
  • winter grazing

Articles

  • Agronomy
  • Alfalfa
  • Alfalfa - How to Plant
  • Alfalfa Management
  • Annual Ryegrass
  • Bale Grazing
  • Barley
  • Boer Goats
  • Cereal Rye
  • Cereal Rye & Radish
  • Chicory
  • Clover
  • Conferences
  • Cool Season Grasses
  • Cover Crops
  • Crop Insurance
  • Demonstration Plot
  • Earthworms
  • Establishing Pasture
  • Fall Forage
  • Field Days
  • First Year Cover Crop
  • Forage Crop Selection
  • Forage Sorghum
  • Frost Seeding Clover
  • Frosty Berseem Clover
  • Gallant Red Clover
  • Grazing
  • Grazing Cover Crops
  • Grazing Forages
  • Harvesting Practices
  • Hay Production
  • Haylage: Wheat & Radish
  • Improving Pastures
  • Improving Soil
  • Increasing Profits
  • Livestock Waterers
  • Nurse Crops
  • Overseeding a hay field
  • Pasture
  • Pasture - How to Plant
  • Pearl Millet
  • Perennial Ryegrass
  • Planting Cover Crops
  • Prevent Plant Acres
  • Reed Canarygrass
  • Rotational Grazing
  • Seed Corn & Cover Crops
  • Seed Quality
  • Seeding Depth


Forage Guide Front Cover - for Cisco Farm Seed.jpg