What Forages Are Best for Winter Grazing? The best winter forages are cool-season crops such as wheat, cereal rye, clover, winter pea, triticale, vetch, turnips, radishes, annual ryegrass, oats, kale and winter lentils.

Seed winter annuals or cover crops for winter and early spring grazing. For maximum forage growth, drill winter annuals following corn silage or early soybean harvest. Oats, triticale and brassicas result in the most fall grazing growth while winter cereal rye and triticale provide the most growth and earliest available spring grazing.