OFFERS THE FINEST QUALITY SEEDS FOR SALE FROM MOUNT CARMEL RANCH IN CLARK WYOMING. OUR SAINFOIN SEED (in our 2009 crop) HAD A GERMINATION RATE OF OVER
98 %, AND A PURITY RATING OF 99.9 %
OUR ANGUS BEEF CATTLE LOVE IT, THEY PREFER IT TO ALFALFA AND WE LOVE IT BECAUSE IT DOES NOT NEED FERTILIZER AND CUTS OUR COST OF FEED SIGNIFICANTLY
Our 2009 crop of Sainfoin Seeds is ready for immediate delivery. Order your seed now as we are selling out fast!
Call US NOW FOR SPECIAL SALE PRICE:
BIGHORN REMONT BRAND SAINFOIN SEED
for a limited time it is only $1.40 Per Pound
CERTIFIED SHOSHONE VARIETY SAINFOIN SEED
for a limited time only $1.75 Per Pound!
You will not find a better quality seed at this price!
Call Nancy from 9am-5pm at (307) 645 3380
After 5:30 pm or on weekends call Matt at (307) 899-1690
email us your questions at - bighornsainfoin@gmail.com
KEY ATTRIBUTES OF OUR SAINFOIN
* Requires no fertilizer
* Produce 10% More Milk & Meat
* The perfect Organinc feed
* Can be pastured and will not cause bloat in cattle or sheep
* Protein levels comparable to alfalfa
*Great for wildlife plots, deer, elk, pheasants, ducks, geese, and turkeys love it
* Weevils and aphids will not bother Sainfoin
* University of Wyoming cases show that Sainfoin does out produce (more tonage) alfalfa
* original seed is from a stand of Sainfoin that has been in production for over 20 years
* naturally high tannins which can kill worms in livestock
* water requirements are minimal
* No frost or freeze problems
* Healthy Wholesome Fodder (webster Dictionary)
* Holds leaves & less dry time
* High sugar & carbs
* No growth Inhibitor
* Long Lived Perennial
* Elevation & weather flexible
* Can be reseeded in existing stands with no problem
* All Livestock Love IT!
Sainfoin is a non-bloating legume that has nitrogen fixation capabilities and can be used in a forage mixture. Sainfoin also is extremely palatable and nutritious for all classes of livestock and wildlife. Livestock actually prefer sainfoin even when other plants species are readily available. Other uses include wildlife habitat restoration, wildlife food plots or as a legume component in the conservation reserve program (CRP). Sainfoin is often compared to alfalfa based on its nitrogen fixation, forage capabilities, and nutritional value. The main advantages of sainfoin are the earlier maturation rate, non-bloating qualities, resistance to the alfalfa weevil and higher digestible nutrients when compared to alfalfa. Another important advantage over alfalfa is that sainfoin is resistant to the root rot phase. The earlier maturation allows for earlier spring forage for grazing and hay cutting which is beneficial to livestock operations (Gray, 2004, p. 2).
Sainfoin is primarily used as a hay or pasture crop and has many characteristics beneficial to farming and ranching operations in the western states such as Wyoming, North and South Dakota, Montana and New Mexico where annual precipitation in generally low. Sainfoin is very drought resistant and does better in cold soils than alfalfa (Stannard, M). It is also shown that sainfoin thrives in soils with a pH 7.0 to 8.0 that are too dry for clover and alfalfa. Sainfoin is longer lived in dryland applications opposed to irrigated land but generally needs re-seeding every five to six years. Another interesting positive side-affect about sainfoin is the relationship it shares with honey and leaf cutting bees. The large pink flower attracts these insects and on top of producing large amounts of high quality honey, the sainfoin showed increased seed production when the bees were present.
Sainfoin is equivalent to alfalfa in forage nutritive value but is not as competitive as alfalfa in mixed stands; thus sainfoin generally is planted as a monoculture.
Sainfoin is well adapted to dry calcareous soils and when compared with other legumes grows well on soils that are low in phosphorus. Sainfoin will tolerate light to moderate grazing well but should be allowed to recover from grazing events; thus, rotational stocking (similar to that used with alfalfa) should receive serious consideration and most grazing of sainfoin should take place during the peak production period during the spring.
GO PINK AND GREEN!
MTC Sainfoin seed is superior in that it has a 98
% germination rate!
As a angus beef cattle producer we have found sainfoin to be an excellent feed for all cattle types. The fact that cattle do not bloat from eating flowered sainfoin plants and that coupled with the fact that you do not have to use fertilizers and very little pesticides makes sainfoin a suprior feed to alfalfa in many ways.
to order your seed call Mount Carmel Youth Ranch at 307-645-3380
‘Shoshone' sainfoin a nicely adapted forage for Wyoming and Montana
Read This Interesting article about sainfion grown here in Wyoming:
‘Shoshone,' a new variety of sainfoin with tolerance to the Northern Root-knot Nematode, is well-adapted to both dry land and irrigated conditions in Wyoming and Montana.
It should also adapt nicely to other areas in the northern Rocky Mountains and possibly in the northern Great Plains.
It was named ‘Shoshone” in honor of Chief Washakie of the Eastern Shoshone Tribe.
Sainfoin - also known as holy grass or holy hay - is a deep-rooted perennial herb with stout, erect stems arising from a crown. Shoots from the plant are highly nutritious and extremely palatable as feed for all types of livestock and wildlife.
Seeds are kidney-shaped and produced in bean-shaped pods which, unlike alfalfa, remain in the pods when harvested.
When consumed, fresh sainfoin, unlike alfalfa which is in the same plant family, does not cause gas formation and bloating, which can lead to death in ruminant animals that graze fresh alfalfa. It can be hayed for winter feed or grazed during the growing season. In addition, sainfoin can be used for wildlife habitat restoration, as a component in “food plots” to attract wildlife, and as a legume component in Conservation Reserve Program plantings. Beekeepers indicate honey yields with sainfoin are much greater than with alfalfa.
Since sainfoin matures earlier than alfalfa, it provides early spring forage for animals. At similar stages of maturity, sainfoin has slightly lower crude protein but higher digestible nutrients compared to alfalfa. Like other legume plants, sainfoin fixes atmospheric nitrogen and provides extra nitrogen for non-leguminous companion forage species.
Shoshone was derived from the open pollination of 176 sainfoin plants from six different courses which had survived for 16 months in the presence of the Northern Root-knot Nematode in Wyoming.
Field trials were established in Wyoming and Montana under both dry land and irrigated conditions to evaluate Shoshone sainfoin. Forage yields were collected for four or more years at each site. All plots were harvested twice each year. Results from these trials showed the Wyoming experiment line had yields equal to or slightly better than Remont, a variety of sanfoin released in 1971 by, when planted alone or when intercropped with Bozoisky Russian wild rye under dry land and Manska intermediate wheatgrass under irrigation. Plant stands remained good in both entries in all experiments indicating good winter hardiness.
In a separate trial near Bozeman having 16 entries including alfalfa, cicer milkvetch, birdsfoot trefoil, and sainfoin, the Wyoming experimental line ranked second in total forage yield after four harvest years.
Average forage yields at 12 percent moisture were 4.37 tons per acre (T/A) when irrigated and 1.21 T/A when grown under dry land conditions. Forage yield of Shoshone when intercropped with a forage grass was 3.97 T/A under irrigation with Manska intermediate wheat grass and 0.95 T/A under dry land conditions when intercropped with Bozoisky Select Russian wild rye.
No damaging insects or diseases, other than the Northern Root-knot Nematode, were observed on the sainfoin line during the eight years of field testing. Sainfoin requires a different strain of rhizobia than alfalfa, which is commercially available.
( GRAY, March 2, 2006 )
Kingdom: Plantae
Division: Magnoliophyta
Class: Magnoliopsida
Order: Fabales
Family: Fabaceae
Subfamily: Faboideae
Tribe: Hedysareae
Genus: Onobrychis
