• Improved Disease Resistance

• Improved Persistence

• Excellent Drought Tolerance

• High Quality Forage• Less Bolting

• Deep taproot helps make it drought tolerant• Oasis has high Lactocin making it more

persistent in years 2+ in Mississippi • Improved disease resistance and persistence

over other chicory varieties• Oasis averaged over 2.5 pounds per head per

day gain on 600 pound steers and heifers • at MSU, with an average stocking rate of 7.8

head per acre in spring and summer months.• Crude Protein between 20-25%• 6-7 tons average annual yield

Grazing Studies

According to Dr. John Andrae (Clemson University), cattle grazing Oasis Chicory paddocks are

consuming less minerals and showing similar weight gains than cattle grazing alfalfa.

Holly Springs Spring 05 grazing data

Spring and Summer 05 Steer Average Daily GainHolly Springs, MS

0

1

2

3

4

Spring Day0-28

Spring Day28-56

Sum merDay 0-42

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DG)

Oasis Chicory

Spring and Summer 05 Steer Gain per AcreHolly Springs, MS

0200400600800

SpringDay 0-28

SpringDay 28-

56

SummerDay 0-42

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Gain

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Acr

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Oasis Chicory

Forage Nutritional Analyses

Ryegrass Chicory SEM

% CP 15.1a 20.8b 1.5

%NDF 52.2a 38.3b 4.7

%ADF 28.7a 27.2a 2.7

%IVDMD 67.0a 69.9a 6.7

%VDMD/NDF 79.8a 85.9b 4.5

ab Means with different superscript letters within a row are significantly different (P < 0.05)

Animal Performance

Ryegrass Chicory SEM

ADG

Kg h-1 d-1

1.27a 1.19b 0.02

Gain/ha

Kg ha-1

230.8a 232.9a 14.5

Stock Rate

Animals ha-1

6.8 7.8 -

ab Means with different superscript letters within a row are significantly different (P < 0.05)