Sunflowers and high quality forage for livestock.
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- Sunflowers and using them as high-quality forage for your livestock. A three-year stand of giant gray stripe flowers in a stand of perennial pasture. How it was established without us reseeding. We will look at the forage quality, biodiversity, and soil health in this field.
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What my husband isn't telling you is that he planted this field originally because I wanted a whole field of sunflowers. They are one of my favorite flowers. This is my favorite field because it is so happy.
That's some beautiful looking forage!
What a great individual you are, you are a wealth of knowledge.
Fantastic Video and Information.
Phenomenal! Thank you for this lesson in soil and animal health & human wellbeing!
I appreciate the effort you put into your videos Russ. Thanks. I don't have a seed drill, but I will try feeding some sunflower seeds to my ruminants this coming spring to see if it might work.
Very impressive! 👍
thanks for info russ
That's some happy soil
As a researcher I really can’t see you having to seed this field again with sunflowers if you continue what you are doing with the cows.
Do sheep and goats eat the leaves and the flowers?
Could you please provide a list of the complex pasture mix you planted and some comments on how your mix worked and if you would choose and different plants in the seed mix?
It would be interesting to know if bypass seeding would work consistently. Some oilseed sunflower in a granola glued together with corn syrup or molasses would get cow attention. A sunflower would be an easy result to observe. Big Blue stem grass with its hard seed would be more important, but finding a new plant wouldn't be easy.
I have a question: is the giant grey stripe the best for cattle grazing? Or are all varieties of Sunflower good for grazing
Mr Wilson is there a way of communication other than watching videos? In the future i'll have some specific questions that might not get covered in the order that would be current to the project.
My wife loves sunflowers. Do you still have all these sunflowers in this field. I might have to do this for her too. How # per acre did you plant for the sunflowers? I know I won’t be able to touch the field with my animals until the sunflowers are about dead too. Did you put any fertilizer on while planting or did you have enough biological creating it’s own growth?
Where can I get some of these seeds ?
I had a field of approximately 8 foot tall mature sunflowers in NE KS which I rolled at maturity( I think) fall 2021. ......they are a cross of some kind cause seeds are minute and apparently mature cause they have been coming up annually increasing population for approximately 10 years. Never rolled previously. Always grown til maturity in fall...What to plant next for annual bovine grazing and or occassional cash crop??? I haven't consulted KSU, my local land grant agricultural institute. THEY SURE WERE SCENIC at blossum.
I really love growing sunflowers.
Are sunflowers 🌻 good for sheep 🐑?