Table 6. Forage costs of annual legume hays to be fed to range cows during the 90-day third trimester production period.
		Pea Forage Hay	Pea Forage Hay	Forage Lentil Hay	Forage Lentil Hay	Oat-Pea Hay
Growth Stage		Early	Late	Early	Late
Herbage Weight	lb/ac
Forage DM Weight	lb/ac	2800	4650	1667	3867	5143
Costs/Acre
Land Rent	$	22.07	22.07	22.07	22.07	22.07
Custom Work	$	16.08	16.08	16.08	16.08	16.08
Seed Cost	$	23.80	23.80	12.60	12.60	29.80
Baling Costs	$	15.01	24.92	8.94	20.73	27.57
Production Costs	$/ac	79.96	86.87	59.69	71.48	95.52
Forage DM Costs	$/ton	55.00	37.40	71.60	37.00	37.20
Land Area/Month	ac	0.11	0.08	0.15	0.10	0.09
Land Area/Period	ac	0.32	0.25	0.46	0.30	0.26
Land Costs/Period	$/pp	7.09	5.52	10.15	6.62	5.74
Forage Costs/Day	$/d	0.28	0.24	0.32	0.24	0.28
Forage Costs/Period	$/pp	25.20	21.60	28.80	21.60	25.20
Crude Protein	%	18.9	14.4	21.8	14.7	12.5
Crude Protein Yield	lb/ac	526	685	361	567	611
Crude Protein Cost	$/lb	0.15	0.13	0.17	0.13	0.16
Supplementation
Roughage/Day	lb/d	14.1	11.0	15.4	11.3	9.0
Crude Protein/Day	lb/d
Sup. Cost/Period	$/pp	22.21	17.33	24.26	17.80	14.18
Total Feed Cost	$/pp	47.41	38.93	53.06	39.40	39.38
Cost/Day	$/d	0.53	0.43	0.59	0.44	0.44