Table 3. Costs-returns per acre during the 167-day nongrowing season. | |||||
Forage-Type Treatments | Production
Cost $/ac | Acres per Nongrowing Season ac | Crude Protein Yield lb/ac | Crude
Protein Cost $/lb | Net Return per Acre $ |
Reserved Native Range with cake | 8.76 | 28.89 | 8.74 | 1.04 | -5.40 |
Cropland Aftermath and Mature Crested Wheatgrass with cake | 7.98 |
9.21 |
102 |
0.28 |
0.99 |
Mature
Crested Wheatgrass with cake | 28.11 |
2.58 |
102 |
0.28 |
3.81 |
Mature
Crested Wheatgrass with cake and alfalfa-silage | 28.11 |
2.72 |
102 |
0.28 |
7.79 |
Crested Wheatgrass, Early | 26.50 | 1.80 | 189 | 0.14 | 26.41 |
Forage Barley, Early | 68.21 | 0.54 | 606 | 0.11 | 115.07 |
Forage Barley, Late | 70.35 | 0.70 | 468 | 0.15 | 87.40 |
Oat Forage, Early | 69.17 | 0.63 | 535 | 0.13 | 98.46 |
Oat Forage, Late | 74.53 | 0.70 | 435 | 0.17 | 82.49 |
Pea Forage, Early | 79.96 | 0.64 | 526 | 0.15 | 53.92 |
Pea Forage, Late | 86.87 | 0.50 | 685 | 0.13 | 103.30 |
Forage Lentil, Early | 59.69 | 0.93 | 361 | 0.17 | 25.31 |
Forage Lentil, Late | 71.48 | 0.61 | 567 | 0.13 | 83.15 |
Oat-Pea Forage | 95.52 | 0.52 | 611 | 0.15 | 97.31 |