Some interest around here in PA. Personally. I don't think the markets have developed. I would hate to go to the expence to produce a crop and can't sell it.
I grow turnips every year. Cattle were slow to eat them at first. After they got started, they like them. I have had a cow choke on one of the bulbs, but she got it out before I got a rope on her.
I use one on a bush hog and hay tedder. Works good on some implements, not so good on others. I don't like it on a small plow.
It's definitely worth having.
I think i'ts great. Eventually they will get to the point that enough food can't be raised, and prices will rise. American agriculture is too productive is the reason farmers are broke.
I don't know about the nutritional value, but I can't get my cattle to eat it. I have some other grass they are slow to eat, but they avoid canary grass like the plague.
Here is a 12.5% protein ration from one of Kirby's nutritionists.
1250 lbs corn
266 lbs roasted beans
400 lbs oats or barley
84 lbs Kirby beef finisher
If you don't have scales on you grinder mixer, you can weigh a component once, then go...
If you have the feed, you will do better in the spring. Somebody would love those to turn out in his fresh
grass. With a little feed you can get 2 lbs per day easily.
I have a farmland. It works good, it just is not good with a tractor with a cab or canopy, I raise it to high and hit the cab glass or canopy. I don't have a tractor with out.