Cover Crop Termination
By Dale Dewing, Cornell Cooperative Extension, Delaware County As the new cropping season is quickly approaching, it is important to begin thinking about how to terminate your winter rye cover crop. As many know the incredible soil health benefits of using cover crops, they can also have many uses after they have served their purpose…
Perennial Mixtures
Perennial Mixtures King’s AgriSeeds, in conjunction with our dealer network and comments from many of you, has developed several premium perennial forage mixtures adapted to the Middle Atlantic and Northeast. All of these mixtures have great potential to make high quality forage. Selecting the best fit for your farm is primarily based on soil type…
Trichoderma Biologicals- Higher Yields Beyond Genetics
TRICHODERMA BIOLOGICALS – HIGHER YIELDS BEYOND GENETICS By Joe Schmidlen, Regional Sales Manager, Agrauxine – North America I have been blessed to have worked in agriculture sales management since 1996. I have worked in row crop seed sales management as well as in the forage seed industry. Working with numerous accounts across the U.S. and…
Summer Annuals, the Nutritious Refresh Button for Pastures
Q: We have a small cow calf operation (38 cows). Our pastures are mostly fescue with some other grasses and clovers mixed with the fescue. We have been planting annual rye in some of our pastures that are not heavy fescue sod. We have been thinking of purchasing a roller crimper and planting a summer…
Red, White and Renew Frost Seeding
From Barenbrug, a simple addition to improve pasture profitability. Red, White and Renew Frost Seeding on a regular basis will pay huge pasture improvement dividends now and for years to come. Frost seeding of Red, White, and Renew Clovers is the most economical practice to improve thinning pastures. It takes very little time and minimal…
If I could plant only one summer annual forage….
By Paige Smart, Southeast AgriSeeds LLC Article originally written for Stockman Grass Farmer (Call their toll free number, 1-800-748-9808 to get your free sample issue) No-till planted sudangrass gets competitive and takes over in the heat of summer Grazing during the heat of the summer provides many challenges for livestock producers. The extra energy animals require to dissipate heat…
From the University of Georgia: Fescue Toxicosis Alert
A note from the University of Georgia extension team about the dangers of Fescue Toxicosis, especially this year. This highlights the importance of renovating old pastures that may still contain K-31 Fescue, and replacing it with an endophyte-free or novel endophyte fescue, such as our BarOptima Plus E34. This issue has been particularly prevalent in…
HyTon
At A Glance:
- Medium-late Maturity
- Suppresses weeds and gives superior soil coverage for reducing erosion potential.
- High Yield and Forage Quality
- Superior Standability
- Reduced awn variety
Best Use:
- Haylage, Baleage, and Managed Grazing
Establishment:
- Planting Dates: Barley to Mid Wheat Dates
- Seeding Rate: Forage: 125-150lbs/Acre
- Cover Crop: 50– 75lbs/Acre (increase with later plantings)
- Seeding Depth: 3/4”- 1 1/2”
- Use the large seed box
A High-Forage Diet for Tough Times
With a sagging dairy economy, a high-forage diet can provide the quickest route to improving your bottom line. High grain diets become less efficient with higher grain prices, but producing high-quality forages on the farm and feeding them as a majority of the ration can increase profitability and lower the break-even price for milk…
Evaluating freeze injury and winterkill of small grain forages
Dave Wilson, Research Agronomist Now that the snow is gone across ‘certain areas’ of PA and to the south, we are able to see the winter annual small grain forages and do some evaluations. I have been getting calls with questions concerning freeze- injury and potential winterkill of the winter annual small grain forages. Most…
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