Get Help for your Dairy – Grants Available through CDE’s On Farm Resource Team Programs!
Using a team approach to provide greater insight into your business decision making process can lead to improved profitability, enhanced performance and future opportunities. It can also smooth the road for transition to the next generation or transform into a new business model. The Center for Dairy Excellence leverages funds provided through the Commonwealth of…
Did you miss the winter meetings? Get caught up with these recordings by Cornell University
Dairy Forage Profit 3.0 – Take Your Forage and Feeding Program to the Next Level! Feed costs (including homegrown forages, grains, & purchased feeds) are the #1 input cost on dairy farms. High forage diets have been proven to be very profitable but can be difficult to achieve. Many times the ability of a farm…
Build Good Soils with Forage
You may have thought that planting a cover crop and leaving it alone until termination and planting of the cash crop is the best way to get all the soil benefits of the ground cover. Cover crops by themselves certainly improve soil biodiversity, soil organic matter levels (which influence tilth and moisture capacity), nutrient…
Winter Crops- Rates and Uses
By David Hunsberger Cover crops are being utilized on more acres here in the Northeast USA each and every year. Usage is split into two main categories, winter forage production for ruminant animals and for soil cover and improvement. Both these forks in the winter crop roadmap find the same species useful – often the…
Growing Hemp At Oakley Farm
Growing Hemp At Oakley Farm By: Sarah Mitchell, Industrial Hemp Specialist, King’s AgriSeeds Download King’s Agriseed’s Year Round Guide What’s happening this month? The days are getting much longer, and the weather is fickle. The forecrop plots planted October 7, 2021, are growing in fitsand- starts just like the weather. Cosaque Oats, a black oat…
Guide to Mob Grazing for Cattle
Guide to Mob Grazing for Cattle In response to the steadily increasing demand for healthier, more humanely-raised livestock, an emerging and innovative trend gaining traction across the agricultural community is mob grazing. While the concept of maintaining larger herds of cattle in small areas may sound detrimental to pasture maintenance, mob grazing is proving to…
King’s winter meeting launch, Monday 1/20/2014
The King’s Agriseeds Team hit the road early Monday morning to travel to New Enterprise in Cumberland County to start the first of their two week long series of educational forage meetings. South Central PA “Ridge and Valley” topography. They met at the old Replogle School community center in New Enterprise, PA for the first…
First Cutting Quality Summary for New York Producers
From Cornell University Cooperative Extension, for our customers in New York and Northern states We have begun monitoring of 1st cutting for quality this year. If you are not familiar with our procedures we use alfalfa height to predict Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF) for alfalfa, alfalfa/grass mixed and grass stands. Alfalfa height has proven to…
First Cutting Alfalfa and Grass Update
From Cornell University Cooperative Extension This is our second week of monitoring first cutting for quality in 2013. If you are not familiar with our procedures, we use alfalfa height to predict Neutral Detergent Fiber (NDF) for alfalfa, alfalfa/grass mixed and grass stands. Alfalfa height has proven to be a reliable indicator of NDF values…
Grasses
Cool Season Perennial Grasses Brome Brome grasses or the Genus Bromusis a large family that comprises over 60 different species. It is a cool season grass that is found in Europe, Africa, Australia and North America. It is primarily used as forage and in some areas as erosion control. Some brome grasses can be used alone…
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