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Forage Economics: Find & Cut Hidden Costs
Profitable forage systems balance forage performance, animal performance and economics. Forages are important because the production cost is significant and forage yield and quality affects total feed costs and animal performance. Variable yields and quality create risk.
Pasture Reminders for April 2005
If cool season grasses have not received fertilizer it is getting late and you may want to hold the amount of N to 50 lbs/acre; additional N could/should be applied in late August to spread out the distribution of growth for the year.
Pasture Reminders for April 2006
If cool season grasses have not received fertilizer it is getting late and you may want to hold the amount of N to 50 lbs/acre; additional N could/should be applied in late August to spread out the distribution of growth for the year.
Pasture Reminders for March 2006
For the most part winter has been rather mild, which could mean early green up of some of the gasses like fescue, orchardgrass, bluegrass, prairiegrass (Matua), smallgrains and ryegrasses. If these grasses green up and put out some leaves they may be grazed, but do not graze them below about 3 inches the first time. The plants have been dormant or semi-dormant and the new leaf growth will mean that the reserve energy stored in the stem bases or rhizomes of the plants has been used to produce some of this early leaf development. After the plants have had 5-8 inches of growth much of the energy will be replenished and the plants may be grazed back to 2-3 inch stubble in subsequent grazings.
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