| Table 5. Forage costs for oat-pea harvested-forage treatment. | ||||
| Dry Gestation | Third Trimester | Early Lactation | ||
| Season | Late Fall | Winter | Early Spring | |
| Days |
32 |
90 | 45 | |
| Herbage Wt | lb/ac | |||
| Forage Wt | lb/ac | 5143 | 5143 | 5143 |
| Forage DM/AU | lb/d |
24 |
24 |
27 |
| Production Cost | $/ac | 95.52 | 95.52 | 95.52 |
| Forage DM Cost | $/ton | 37.20 | 37.20 | 37.20 |
| Land Area/Mo | ac | 0.07 | 0.09 | 0.13 |
| Land Area/PP | ac | 0.07 | 0.26 | 0.19 |
| Land Cost/Mo | $/mo | 1.54 | 1.99 | 2.87 |
| Land Cost/PP | $/pp | 1.54 | 5.74 | 4.19 |
| Feed Cost/D | $/d | 0.22 | 0.28 | 0.41 |
| Feed Cost/Mo | $/mo | 6.60 | 8.40 | 12.30 |
| Feed Cost/PP | $/pp | 7.04 | 25.20 | 18.45 |
| Crude Protein | % | 12.5 | 12.5 | 12.5 |
| Crude Protein | lb/ac | 611 | 611 | 611 |
| Cost CP | $/lb | 0.15 | 0.15 | 0.15 |
| Cow CP/D | lb/d | 1.49 | 1.87 | 2.73 |
| Supplementation | ||||
| Roughage/D | lb/d | 12.1 | 9.0 | 5.2 |
| CP/D | lb/d | |||
| Sup. Cost/PP | $/pp | 6.78 | 14.18 | 4.10 |
| Total Feed Cost | $/pp | 13.82 | 39.38 | 22.55 |
| Cost/D | $/d | 0.43 | 0.44 | 0.50 |