Attain planted behind peanuts in late October. Field was irrigated at planting and once after. A 40% stand loss occurred due to dry weather shortly after germination. Stand was drought stressed through early December. Then it went through a very cold Dec/Jan. February temperatures are above normal. Cattle have been grazing since mid-December. Average daily gain: 3.25 lbs/day.

For our winter grazing, we plant a combination of Attain, triticale and oats in part of our fields as a three way combination. That worked really well last year and really well this year. On about half our acres, we plant straight Attain no-till over perennial peanut pastures, and that has been our best ryegrass this year. It’s performed extremely well. We’ve been able to run a lot of cows on it. It looks great right now and we’ve not had any disease problems. It’s holding up fabulously and we expect to have season long production out of it. One of the things we like about the Attain is that it appears to come on fairly early, but then it stays late. We get so dry here in May and it’s always great to have the ryegrass last on out into May. Course, you don’t see a lot of forage out there, but what’s there the cattle are still grazing on it. It really helps us until our Bahia grass comes on. We’ve used Attain for 2 years and it’s been fabulous.