FORAGE RESOURCES (provided by Craig Saxe)

Alfalfa

• Use Legumes As a Nitrogen Source (1 page, 95 KB)
• Alfalfa Seedings Require Attention (1 page, 47 KB)
• Alfalfa Grass Mixtures (54 slides, 1915 KB)
• Alfalfa - Getting 10 Ton Yield (10 pages, 662 KB)
• Whats new in Alfalfa for 2007 (9 pages, 311 KB)
• Alfalfa Germination and Growth (29 slides, 3238 KB)
• Fall Management of Alfalfa (2 pages, 394 KB)
• Alfalfa Concerns for 2000 (31 pages, 557 KB)
• Alfalfa Insect Management (42 pages, 812 KB)

Other Forages

• How to Produce Horse Quality Hay (56 Slides, 3854 KB)
• Emergency Forage Plantings Trial Results 2005,2006 and 2007 follow-up ( 38 slides, 4423 KB)
• Emergency Forage Plantings in Central Wisconsin, 2006 results (3 pages, 73 KB)
• Emergency Forage Plantings in Central Wisconsin, 2005 results (2 pages, 16 KB)

Grazing

• Stockpiled Grazing Study by Keith VanderVelde (6 slides, 47 KB)
• Grazing Basics - Full Slide set (95 slides, 7718 KB)
  • Grazing Basics -1. Introduction (9 slides, 640 KB)
  • Grazing Basics - 2. What is Rotational Grazing (15 slides, 829 KB)
  • Grazing Basics - 3. Why Use Rotational Grazing (21 slides, 1094 KB)
  • Grazing Basics - 4. Understanding Plant Growth (11 slides, 779 KB)
  • Grazing Basics - 5. Setting up a Grazing System (33 slides, 4981 KB)
  • Grazing Basics - 6. Fencing, Watering and Frost Seeding (22 slides, 1585 KB)
  • Grazing Basics - 7. Grazing Tips (13 slides, 859 KB)
• Nitrogen Fertilizer on Pasture (2 pages, 53 KB)
• Useful Grazing Resources & Reference Materials (2 pages, 59 KB)
• Grazing Lessons Learned (7 pages, 979KB)
• Grazing Opportunities (41 pages, 726 KB)
• Direct Marketing Grass Fed Beef Survey (2 pages, 61 KB)
• Winter Feed Supplies, by Keith VanderVelde (4 pages, 72 KB)

Harvesting and Storage

• Baling Wet Hay (1page, 37 KB)
• New Technologies in Forage Preservation (39 slides, 1756 KB)
• Managing Forage in Silo bags (4 pages, 183 KB)
• Managing Forage in Bunker Silos (3 pages, 82 KB)
• Beware of Silo Gas Factsheet (1 page, 66 KB)
• Beware of Nitrates in Corn Silage Factsheet (1 page, 239 KB)
• Big Bale Storage Losses; how different options stack up (4 pages, 66KB)
• Big Bale Storage Losses (2 pages, 250 KB)
• Deciding on a Silage Storage Type (30 pages, 10 MB)
• Forage Storage Options,What’s Right for You? (45 pages, 1.73 MB)

Forage Economics (material provided by Ken Williams and Keith Vandervelde)

• Forage Economics in 2008 (21 slides, 185 KB)
• Crop Budget Analyzer ( 103 KB)
• Economics of Grazing 2001 (30 slides, 100 KB)
• Hay Prices and Budgeting by Ken Barnett (9 slides, 204 KB)
• Horse Hay Marketing Buyers Survey (10 slides, 92 KB)
• Horse Hay Raising and Buying (46 slides, 976 KB)

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