Oklahoma Producer Jimmy Emmons

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Visit galvee.org. Jimmy Emmons farms and produces cattle in northwestern Oklahoma. He’s a no-till farmer and uses a lot of cover crops. How do you utilize those cover crops, Jimmy? The cover crop behind the cereal grain, we’ll plant a warm season mix and we’ll graze that.

So we’ll give our native range a break through the cows to that. Or if we have fall calves, we’ll wean them and graze them summer covers there. In the wintertime, when we get our cereal covers behind beans and peas planted, if it comes on quick enough, we’ll graze that during the winter.

Then take off in time for it to really kick off up through the spring and give us some good cover. So you don’t have to use a lot of winter feed then? You’re pretty much able to graze it? We’ve really, really cut back on the amount of hay and feed that we’re feeding now. And we’re going to continue that trend.

I’d like to get down where we only use hay in a snow or an ice emergency. So, yes, that’s really starting to help. Jimmy Emmons, who farms and ranches in northwestern Oklahoma.

That’s it for today’s Cattleman’s Corner. Thanks again for listening and may God bless. I’m Brian Hale.