Bekogonomi is a new rice cultivar suitable for feed developed at the National Research Center for the Tohoku Region in 2007. It was selected from progenies of a cross between Fukuhibiki and 97UK-46. Bekogonomi is classified as an early maturity rice. It has medium length, is thick and has stiff culms. It has a true resistance gene to blast, Pib and Pik, and its resistance to leaf blast and panicle blast are high and medium, respectively. Cold tolerance at the booting stage is slightly weak. The size of this brown rice is medium, and the grain yield of Bekogonomi is about 5% higher than that of Akihikari. The yellow-ripe stage of Bekogonomi is slightly earlier than that of Akihikari, and the TDN yield is about 6% higher than that of Akihikari. Bekogonomi is available for rice whole-crop silage in the middle-to-north part of the Tohoku region, because harvest time of Bekogonomi is earlier than that of the leading cultivar in this region. In addition, it is available as rice feed grain because of its high grain-yielding ability.