Fact Sheet was written by:
Vern Anderson, Ph.D., Professional Animal Scientist Carrington Research Extension Center
Greg Lardy, Ph.D. Animal and Range Sciences Department
Breanne Ilse, Research Specialist Carrington Research Extension Center
and provided by:
North Dakota State University www.ag.ndsu.edu
Field pea is one of several pulse (from the Latin word pultis, meaning thick soup) crops defi ned as the dried, edible seeds of legumes that are used as food and also include dry bean, lentil, chickpea and fababean. Production of field pea has increased dramatically in the last five years across the northern Plains states (USDA-NASS, 2005b) as farmers include this annual grain legume in crop rotations to reduce reliance on purchased fertilizer inputs. The expanding supply of fi eld pea grain creates an opportunity to utilize this new feed in commercial livestock production.
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