quack or leave alone?

[mosinee dave]

rented 50 acres from neighbor decided to plant oats pea mixture instead of corn because I need feed for beefers. I will cut and wrap it.should I just wait till spring and spray with roundup or try quacking this fall?Oats pea mixture will also have seeding with it.
 

[jackinok]

might want to be a little careful with that mix,you cant graze cattle on straight oats normally,and peas can cause severe bloat problems.together i simply do not know.either one is normally planted with a grass for continual grazing. drying it down as hay you might be alright,but even then you most likely would get more food value from a grass ,because their wouldnt be much value in your oat straw. how you handle the field would depend on your location i would think.if your far north for instance would you have enough growing season to spray roundup,wait the prescribed time and still get a good growing season? here the heat would limit me if i sprayed in spring when grass/weeds were growing,waited a month and then planted peas or oats. in other words the heat limits me instead of the cold.
 

[ihman73]

Assuming you are making baleage, that mix would make pretty good feed. Another option that would give you a little more tonnage than oats is spring triticale, it is also a cereal but tonnage wise would yield more like wheat for hay or silage. We planted a spring triticale and cowpea mix and chopped it for silage one year for our dairy herd. Made good dry cow and heifer feed. then followed it with a milo/forage soybean blend which also made good silage. I would just wait and spray it in the spring.