Buckwheat: Best for lysine and protein you can grow for the least amount of effort
In this video, we delve into the amazing benefits of buckwheat, an easy-to-grow superfood that's packed with lysine and protein as natural forage for your livestock. Discover why buckwheat is the best crop you can cultivate with minimal effort and how it can boost your animals diet and health.
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We have grown and used this. It matures super-fast, so you can get at least 2 crops in a season. Just know that if you get a heavy rain during pollination, there will be almost no grain. But at least, if turned under, it make a decent green manure.
I've almost got the trees and logs cleared out of the new pig pasture. We'll be planting buckwheat in one quadrant early next spring. I can't wait.
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We plant buckwheat,cereal rye and kale behind our pigs and it thrives..pigs love it
I decided to plant a small plot of buckwheat this year as an experiment to see how well it would do. We are in mountains in Nicaragua, so I waited until the wet season to plant it, when temperatures are a little lower and there would not be as much stress on the plants. So far, it has been doing great. I am very impressed. When we bought this farm, it was inundated with a variety of switchgrass that grows in clumps, which can become huge over time. It also has an allelopathic quality that prevents other things from growing around it. This means that the diversity of forage material for our small flock of sheep is inadequate, and I have been slowly trying to dig up the switchgrass and replace it with some other things that will increase diversity. Right now, buckwheat is looking like a good option. As you say, it is not adequate on its own but seems like a good option for a diverse forage pasture.
Wow... I've always enjoyed buckwheat; not sure why I don't eat it more often in fact. But I had no idea how high in minerals it is or how easy it is to grow! We're in an area that sounds like the perfect place to grow it, so I'm going to try putting in a patch of the perennial kind. Thanks for sharing!
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Just watch out if you have kidney stones, as it is sort of high in oxalates. All of us could probably benefit from reducing intake. I'm interested in it as rabbits feed...thanks for the video.
Buckwheat is definitely NOT cheap anymore lol...huge demand for cover cropping so not enough supply...2$ a lb in sw washington IF you can find it