Tag: forages
Beware of frost-damaged forages
When some forages freeze, changes in their metabolism and composition can be toxic to ruminant livestock, causing prussic acid poisoning and bloat.
Save money, use livestock to harvest hay
Using livestock to make later cuttings of hay is one of the best opportunities producers have to reduce costs and make more profit year after year.
What’s lurking in your forages?
Are you scouting your forage crops for disease this fall? This may not be the first item on a producer's to-do list, but it's important.
Winter cover crops make better spring soils
Grazing winter cover crops can provide winter forage for livestock, increase soil biology and organic matter and decrease soil erosion and nutrient runoff.
An equation for successful forages
In order to maintain control of your forage system in an uncontrollable world, you need to be good at being both proactive and reactive.
Let forages guide grazing management
Learn to pair forages that progress to maturity at similar times for a more uniform harvest with increased quality and yield.
How often should you cut alfalfa?
Learn how to adjust your harvesting schedule to increase alfalfa yields without sacrificing quality.
Planning for a sustainable future
Selection criteria for forage crops will need to expand beyond the current focus to encompass environmental impacts of growing, harvesting and storing them.
How will climate change impact animal ag in Northeast?
Nutrient management and disease are expected to be complicated by warmer, wetter conditions. An increase in hot days will challenge some and benefit others.
4 steps to develop a high-quality feed program
Silage testing is a fundamental tool for the farm to continuously evaluate quality and adjust to feed the best-possible forages.
