PPT-Beef Up Your Forage Management!

Joe Sellers Brian Peterson Why are forages important We are losing grazing and hay acres Soil erosion and water quality losses Cowcalf sheep goat dairy industries are important Ruminant production costs are escalating. Dan . Shike. , PhD. University of Illinois. Champaign-Urbana. Why all the buzz about efficiency?. Increasing world population. Increased utilization of feed for fuel. Increasing feed cost (including forages). Cameron Ludemann . Forage Value Manager. DairyNZ. Forage Value Index. Identify forages that maximise farm profit. Region specific FVI. What you see. www.dairynzfvi.co.nz. What you see. www.dairynzfvi.co.nz. Ed Rayburn, Extension Forage Agronomist January 2002 PROPER HANDLING AND CURING OF HAY 1 Hay made from the best-adapted species and f L. E. Chase and T. R. Overton. Dept. of Animal Science. Cornell University. What is Silage?. “The feedstuff resulting from the . anaerobic. preservation of moist forage or other feeds by the formation and/or addition of acids”. Cindy Haygood, District Conservationist. USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service. Dr. Dennis Hancock, Extension Forage Specialist. UGA – Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences. 2015 . Georgia Grazing School. Rotational Grazing. Remote Learning Curriculum Outline. Section 3: Forage and Grazing Management. 3. .) Forage and Grazing Management . A. ) Forage Production. . i. .) Seeding Options . . Use grazing as a tool to tap into your latent seed bank as much as possible. Pasture will develop over time with proper management without any external seeding. There are hundreds of seed options available and nearly as many companies out there to sell it to you. However, seeding can be costly and not always successful so beware of what and when you take it on.. Dennis Hancock. Extension Forage Specialist. UGA – Dept. of Crop and Soil Sciences. 2015 . Georgia Grazing School. Yield Distribution of Tall Fescue Complemented with Bermudagrass in Athens, GA. Surplus. Chris Reinhardt, Ph.D.. Extension Beef Specialist. Kansas State University. QUIZ:. Is Nitrate toxic to cattle?. Yes and No. What is the REAL problem compound?. Nitrite is 10x as toxic as NO. 3. Nitrate Poisoning . Animal Science Extension Agent Update. Eastern Kansas. Dale A. Blasi. 11/10/2015. Forage plants are the product of their environment. Soil. Weather. Animals. Disease. Growth vs. Quality. Spring. Fall. Dr. Mike Hutjens. Dairy Extension Specialist. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jim Baltz. Instructional Design Specialist. Learning Objectives. After viewing this module you should be able to:. Table sauces go in your sauce tray, Dip the already-cooked meat into the table sauces, but do not put table sauces on the meat while Questions about how to best grill your meat ALL GYU-KAKU MARINADES when cattle graze on pure stands, but a forage grass sown into established kura clover stands can help reduce this problem. This legume will go dormant during periods of drought, resuming growth o Table sauces go in your sauce tray, Dip the already-cooked meat into the table sauces, but do not put table sauces on the meat while Questions about how to best grill your meat ALL GYU-KAKU MARINADES EXAMPLE FARM much we will need the whole year (11,500 lb/ac/yr7,500 lb/ac/yr held up pretty good, 11 cows on 20 acres, is 1.8 acres per cow. We have enou our cows for the whole yeargood estimate and