Warm-season annual forages play a vital role in many grazing, haying and feeding operations across the country. We typically think of crops such as forage sorghums, sorghum-sudan crosses and the various millets to provide summer forage production needs in place of or as a complement to perennial forage systems.

Small-grain crops are used extensively in some areas for various types of forage production and animal feeding operations. Small grains used to the greatest extent are wheat and triticale; however, rye, barley and oats are utilized also.