Cotton seed hulls

[shortii]

My family cash crop farms about 5000 acres of corn, wheat and soybeans as well as a growing herd of cattle.  I heard on RFD that Palmer Amaranth seed is being found in bags of cotton seed hulls. If people don't know much about this weed it is very aggressively growing plant that can produce hundreds of thousands of seeds and has formed herbicide resistance very quickly. So if I feed my show cattle cotton seed hulls in their feed, there is a good possibility that the seed could be spread on our fields through the manure. So I was wondering if there is anything else I could add to my feed mix as an alternative to the cotton seed hulls?

Thanks for the input, I appreciate your help.

 

[blackdiamond]

My family cash crop farms about 5000 acres of corn, wheat and soybeans as well as a growing herd of cattle.  I heard on RFD that Palmer Amaranth seed is being found in bags of cotton seed hulls. If people don't know much about this weed it is very aggressively growing plant that can produce hundreds of thousands of seeds and has formed herbicide resistance very quickly. So if I feed my show cattle cotton seed hulls in their feed, there is a good possibility that the seed could be spread on our fields through the manure. So I was wondering if there is anything else I could add to my feed mix as an alternative to the cotton seed hulls?

Thanks for the input, I appreciate your help.

beet pulp

P.A. is serious, and it's already pretty far north.  last year I was present when it was found in central IL.

 

[flacowman]

We've been fighting it in the southeast for years.  We've finally got a few more herbicides that work on it now at least.  I would suggest beet pulp or really any other high fiber feedstuff would do.  Soyhulls may also be another option depending on availability

 

[rf21970]

So that is why I see all these cornbelt kids working their show steers in the summer wearing shorts. No pigweed in your pens. Pigweed has been in our lots and feeding areas for as long as I can remember.

 

[firesweepranch]

We have it all over out here also, a real bugger to try to control!