Intermediate wheatgrass as a potential food plot?

[Hoytvectrix]

Intermediate wheatgrass: A new perennial multi-use crop

Craig Sheaffer, Extension forage agronomist, and Jake Jungers, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of...

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Just wondering if anyone here has read or thought about using this as a potential food plot/revenue source? I have been reading up on it after seeing some plots of 'Clearwater' Kernza (which is the marketed name for the intermediate wheat). It looks like it has some forage potential as a perennial grain, so potentially two benefits to landowners - grain for feeding small game and the forage quality for large game/bailing income. I know rye and wheat already work pretty well in most food plot situations, but in super low cost situations, I could see this having some potential.

 

[FarmerDan]

Intermediate wheatgrass: A new perennial multi-use crop

Craig Sheaffer, Extension forage agronomist, and Jake Jungers, Assistant Professor, Department of Agronomy and Plant Genetics, University of...

blog-crop-news.extension.umn.edu

Just wondering if anyone here has read or thought about using this as a potential food plot/revenue source? I have been reading up on it after seeing some plots of 'Clearwater' Kernza (which is the marketed name for the intermediate wheat). It looks like it has some forage potential as a perennial grain, so potentially two benefits to landowners - grain for feeding small game and the forage quality for large game/bailing income. I know rye and wheat already work pretty well in most food plot situations, but in super low cost situations, I could see this having some potential.

Never heard of it! Innovation at its finest. Depending on how you want to count it took 14-20 years for farmers to full adapt corn hydrids even though they could see the differences in yields - ear size - as they drove up and down back country roads. We talk here about soil conservation and tillage affects. Fifty years after I first heard of no-till it and minimum till the methods are finally common practice.. Innovation and change in ag has been one of my favorite curiosities. It has taken me a long time to accept that, in this business, leaps of improvement come mostly at generational change moments.

Great find, the wheat grass. Interesting reading! Let me know how it works out, LOL!

 

[SwampCat]

I doubt it would flourish down here in the south - but I can think of a place or two. I have some open bottom ground with herbaceous vegetation that offers very little wildlife value. It floods every two or three years. Would make a good duck hole if there was vegetation there that had some food value and didnt have to be planted every year - only for no flood water.

My upland open ground is mostly little bluestem. I see very little value in it. The fluffy light seed does not seem to be favored by wildlife, I dont see grazing by deer. This wheatgrass could be an upgrade over little bluestem for providing seed to a variety of birds