Month: March 2015

What if you couldn’t plant a cover crop in the fall but need a quick crop before a heavy summer nitrogen user like sorghum, sorghum-sudan, sudangrass, millet, brassicas or vegetable transplants?  Many regions have seen cooler weather with spring arriving later, but you may have time to fit in an extra crop. With a little…

Genevieve Slocum, King’s AgriSeeds Inc.   Common chickweed Agronomists will tell you that weeds are never the problem, but only a symptom of underlying problems. Weeds invade when they have opportunities. Maintaining a thick, healthy stand that competes well with unwanted species is one of the best weed prevention tactics. The growth rate of a…

Penn State Extension Pasture bloat is primarily a problem of cattle that graze pastures where legumes make up greater than 50% of the total forage. You may hear pasture bloat referred to as “frothy” bloat due to the large amount of froth or foam produced in the rumen, which the animal has difficulty eructating. Legumes…

Hay in a day demands a sense of urgency in managing a haylage crop and involves getting the crop dried and ensiled in the shortest amount of time possible. Wide swathing hay is the primary technique used to achieve that, getting more of the swath exposed to the sun for faster drying. Why hay in…

Genevieve Slocum The need for soil building, erosion control and nutrient scavenging doesn’t end with the onset of warm weather; if anything, it only accelerates. It’s an opportunity to be seized, especially since warm season annuals establish quickly, fill gaps in the rotation, tolerate drought and other challenging conditions, and produce large amounts of forage…