According to the 2012 Census of Agriculture, Lincoln County ranked 6 in the state in terms of land used for forages for all hay and haylage, grass silage and greenchop with 38,233 acres. After receiving several phone calls from different forage producers late last summer asking what the best winter annual was to plant for hay production the next spring and opportunity came up to setup a test plot on farm. After consulting with university forage specialists we determined the forages to test were wheat, cereal rye, ryegrass, triticale, crimson clover and mixtures of wheat/crimson clover, cereal rye/crimson clover, ryegrass/crimson clover, triticale/crimson clover. These plots were planted in October last fall, monitored thru the winter and harvested in May. Upon harvest we weighed samples for yield and tested samples of each plot for quality. Our data is still being analyzed. Our goal is to repeat this test for consecutive years to increase the accuracy of our data. Once we have good data we will communicate our findings with producers.