Varieties available

We have 2 varieties available now, BMR 84 and BMR 90. BMR 84 is an 84 day with Plant Variety Protection. BMR 90 is an F2 90+ day where the F1 seedstock is produced as a hybrid. We have small amounts of three others ready to go. F1 BMR's produces less seed than normal hybrids. Yet we still have have reasonable yields and with about a 400 times increase the F1 seed cost is insignificant. (say 30,000 F1 seeds producing 100 to 150 bushels per acre). We have reports of 150 bushel F2 yields, which is the generation sold to produce the greenleaf. With 150 bushel per acre and very low royalties, 50 cents to $1, seed can be very economical. 

If you want seedstoch email me at glenpage2001@charer.net

If you want seed to grow for greenleaf production goggle BMR grazing corn

You will find a few websites selling our varieties.  We need Midwest growers.

Green Cover Seeds

Southeast  AgriSeeds

Ray Brothers Seed

Renovo Seed

North 40 Ag

and many others

These varieties have many possible uses. The best will be after a cool season crop such as winter wheat. I found the USDA reported winter wheat use in 42 states, with most of the acreage is in the Great Plains. Because most of the corn and soybeans are harvested too late for cover crops, much of the cover crops go after the cool season small grains. In some areas soybean are grown after winter wheat, but this can be iffy because the grain has to mature. That's a benefit with greenleaf as it always makes a crop. Another striking feature is that it can be planted with a cover crop as suggested on the home page or it could be planted first and a week or 2 later, before the corn growing point emerges, plant the cover crop. You would destroy a little of the corn, but since the corn seed is inexpensive, this is of little harm. As far as corn following, that is likely not a problem as this fall planting almost makes it a different crop, escaping the normal spring corn planted pests. It could even benefit with specific corn mycorrhiza available to the full season corn crop? Planted with a cover crop at 20 to 30,000 population, the seed costs would be extremely low. Because it always makes a crop, it may be possible to wait for a rain. If it got to late to plant with a cover crop you would then plant it much thicker at maybe 100,000+ plants per acre. A word of cation: Do not plant in hot dry late summer soil unless rain or irrigation occurs within a day or so. Laying in hot, dry soil without germination can quickly lower germ. 

Some farmers have been using it as a grain silage. For a full season grain silage, an expensive hybrid will usually be a better choice. However after a cool season forage like triticale, our more inexpensive shorter season BMR for grain silage could be the better choice. Another possibility is triticale forage followed by our Greenleaf. With the higher quality triticale and BMR Greenleaf, it could be cheaper to buy the smaller quantity of corn grain and protein supplement needed. This could be especially advantages under irrigation where aquifers are being mined, like the southern Ogallala, for example. 

70% of beef cattle come from the Great Plains and 30% are finished in the southern Great Plains. This is where some feed lots are very big and it would seem to be difficult to get sufficient 65 to 70% high moisture greenleaf to them. Perhaps wheat growers in a given area could establish a feedlot. They would profit from the Greenleaf crop, still have the cover crop and also income from higher value grass finished beef. I noticed that Kerrygold butter sells for about twice that of U S butter, yet I read they allow producers to feed a little grain at times. Perhaps something like that could be done here with butter and meat fat quality testing? The idea is to get most of the fat produced by higher Omega-3 grass instead to the high omega-6 in grains. Omega-6 is a necessary fat, it's just that the ideal omega-3 to omega-6 ratio is around 1:1 to 1:4 while American diets are much higher, closer to 1:15 with some some as high as 1:30. 

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