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New Hybrid Rye for Livestock Feed

Winter crop that’s harvested in summer, it's widely used in hog and beef rations

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A German company, KWS Seeds, spent 10 years helping grow the use of hybrid rye in Scandinavia and the Baltics — from little use to now a significant crop in many Scandinavian farm operations. The company thinks the same transformation can occur in the Midwest U.S. to move thousands of farmers beyond a corn/soybean rotation, reports Corn + Soybean Digest.

Hybrid rye is planted in the fall, but it isn’t killed in the spring. It’s grown as a winter crop that’s harvested the following summer, and it could be the small grain many Midwest farmers have been looking for to insert into their corn and soybean rotation for a more sustainable operation.

High-yielding hybrid rye is widely used in both hog and beef rations in Europe, but is known as the most healthy cereal grain and is popular across Europe for human consumption.

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