Hi Daniel,
I could not find to much on grazing soybeans with lambs. From what I did
find it can be done and the soybeans are a good feed but I think there are
crops etter suited to be used as pasture such as rape-oats combinations.
If you do graze soybeans and want regrowth of the plants you would need to
be sure to pull the animals off before they eat all of the leaves off the
plants. In this country at least, soybeans have never been used much for
forage except in emergency situations because other crops lend them selves
much better for this use. Good luck.
Jim Ahrens
West Branch, IA
On Mon, 5 Apr 2004, Daniel Formoso wrote:
> Hi,folks!
> First, excuse me my English. It is not my mother language (I always say the same but I don�t try to improve it!)...a
little lazy, may be...
> Second, I�m searching for scientific information (papers) about lambs grazing soybean pasture.
> Here in Uruguay (South America) we have many farmers fattening lambs in different types of pasture like white clover,
ryegrass, etc.
> But we need a good pasture for rearing lambs, mainly in summer. We tested many pasture (rape, Lucerne, etc) but we are
lack of information of that kind of forage.
> Thank you in advance
>
> Daniel
>
