Organic Forage Peas
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Product Description
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Certified Organic 4010 Field Peas
Certified Organic 4010 Field Peas are a variety of forage peas that are much taller than Trapper peas that were used extensively in the past. Blended with small grains they will make a highly nutritious haylage when cut in the boot stage. Dairy farmers really like these field pea mixes that yield a high tonnage of nutritious and a highly palatable haylage. The feed value will be comparable to alfalfa haylage.
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Certified Organic Pea-Oatlage
Certified Organic Pea Oatlage is a mix of 55% 4010 Field Peas and 45% Forage Oats. Pea Oatlage offers produces a high producing, highly nutritious forage that is extremely palatable when grazed, made into silage or baled or makes a good spring cover crop to till under to improve crumb structure and nitrogen content of the soil.
Establishment
Plant at 1-1 1/2" depth.
Management
Pea Oatlage can generally be harvested about 60 days after planting.
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Certified Organic Pea-Tritlage
Certified Organic Pea-Tritlage is a mix of 55% Certified Organic 4010 Field Peas and 45% Certified Organic Triticale.
Certified Organic Pea-Tritlage is a very popular, highly palatable grain mix offering producers high feed values, versatility and high tonnage. Certified Organic Pea Tritlage is later in maturity and higher in protein due to the leafiness of the triticale. Certified Organic Pea Tritlage can be grazed, made into silage or baled.
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Organic Austrian Winter Peas
Austrian Winter Peas are a viney winter annual with stems 2-4 feet long. They have high nutritive value and are used for silage and green manure in the South. These peas will not winter in the northern states, but can be planted in the North and used for a summer silage crop or nitrogen fixing cover crop. They are not adapted for pasture as they do not tolerate trampling. They are can be used as a deer attractant.
The can be harvested, dried and powdered, stored and applied as fertilizer in the field they grew or elsewhere if needed.
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- Field peas are used as protein concentrates, in the form of silage, pasture, hay, or grain. Some people are drying them and pulverizing them to use as home made fertilizer.
- Grown in a mixture with oats, barley, or triticale they yield tons of silage. The small grain makes the peas stand more erect which makes the crop easier to harvest.
- A mixture of 50 lbs. peas and 2-1/2 bu. of oats can be seeded with clover or alfalfa as a companion crop. The stand reduces weed competition and allows for 1 or 2 alfalfa cuttings following the harvest.
- Harvest is recommended when the field peas are in full blossom just before the small grain heads out. However, due to weather conditions a lot of it gets taken later... when the peas are far enough along to eat .
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Management
- Peas do best in cool, dry conditoons.
- Plant them as early as possible, even before oats if you can, on well drained soil.
- Plant them 1.5 - 2 inches deep. Too shallow and they can dry out and die before or during germination. Peas require more moisture than most seeds to get them started.
- Peas are slow to establish and need to be drilled deep. Using inoculant on ground that hasn't had peas for five years or more.
- Seed at 150 lbs per acre.
- When seeding for forage, seed at 100 lbs per acre.
- When companion planting, plant, Oats or Barley, two weeks later and shallower than the peas.
- If seeded after April, seed all companions at the same time.
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