Cajun II
Key Features
- Wide Adaptation
- High Yielding
- Endophyte-Free
Horses: A List of Concerns
Horses have different digestive systems and nutritional needs than high-producing ruminants like sheep or cattle, which gives them some unique sensitivities to various forage issues. Horses and other livestock tend to avoid plants that don’t agree with them because they find them unpalatable, unless they lack other feed options (such as in an overgrazed…
Getting prepared to plant your spring forages
By Dave Wilson, King’s Research Agronomist The time to get the drills and seeder in mechanical shape for the season is now. Clean mice nests and cobwebs from drills, blow the fluted openers and seed tubes out with air. Lubricate moving parts; calibrate your drills now. Refer to page 11 in the Product Information Guide…
Summer Cover Crop and Grazing Options
Summer Cover Crop/Grazing Mixtures Summer Feast– A simple but effective mix of hybrid pearl millet and brassica. High yielding forage and deep tap root! Ray’s Crazy Mix– A 7-way mixture of summer annual legumes, brassicas and grasses. Equal parts forage and cover crop, this mixture is a great way to grow soil organic matter, improve tilth and…
How do I know when to graze mixtures?
Tim Fritz, President and Owner Alfalfa with Milkway grass mix Mixtures bring yield stability to a forage field as each species and variety has its own strengths and weaknesses. These factors include: soil adaption, climate adaptation, disease resistance, harvest timing, yield distribution over the seasons, nutrient needs and contributions to soil health, and of course…
Observations and Thoughts – the 2014 Corn Crop in the Northeast
Cooler weather with adequate nutrients and moisture provides slower grain fill for potential higher yields and test weights. By Dave Wilson, Research Agronomist Cooler temperatures this past corn growing season slowed down corn growth overall in our region. However, at most locations, rainfall has been slightly average to above average, and even excessive in some…
The King’s Difference: Two NY Dairies’ Experience
Korona Dairy, Perth, NY Korona Dairy milks 120 registered cows. The herd averages 75 pounds on 2x milking and runs on average 4.4% Butterfat and 3.4% milk protein. The members of the dairy strive to push profitability through being early adapters of new technology and are always pushing to produce the highest quality, most digestible…
Notes from the Field: Small Grain Observations
Several contrasts are becoming more apparent in our Farming Systems plots as spring progresses. With more growth, differences among treatments are accentuated. Many small grains that were planted in the fall in this trial had both an early and late planting, with the early fall planting thriving better across the board than the late fall…
Fall planting for a successful spring: Preparing soil quality and providing forage
Late summer is often the time to begin thinking about early spring. What will you plant and how will you get your soil in the kind of condition it In spring, roots from overwintering hairy vetch and crimson clover have built soil structure and fertility for the summer crop should be in for that spring…
The ROSE Project: A Reduced-Tillage Toolbox
In support of the ROSE Project at Penn State University we are posting the latest edition of “The Rose Review” which is a periodic newsletter for the ROSE Project. The ROSE project stands for Reduced-Tillage Organic Systems Experiment; the research theme is  “A Reduced-Tillage Toolbox: Alternative approaches for integrating cover crops and reduced tillage in an organic…
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