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Forage Management Unit for Adults

Forage Management Unit for Adults. Lesson 4: Making, Harvesting, and Storing Quality Forage and Seed. Direction and Purpose to:.

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Forage Management Unit for Adults

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  1. Forage Management Unit for Adults Lesson 4: Making, Harvesting, and Storing Quality Forage and Seed

  2. Direction and Purpose to: • Obtain knowledge and information resources necessary to make intelligent decisions for maximum profitability and quality forage harvesting, storage, and seed production.

  3. Producing Quality Hay • Hay quality makes the difference • Use cost-benefit analysis • Examine protein-nitrogen relationships • Recommended stages for harvest

  4. Stretching Winter Forage Supplies • Stockpiling forages • Extends grazing season • Minimizesproduction costs • Utilizing Crop residues • Feeding Practices

  5. Problems with Putting Up Quality Forage • Weather • Toxicity and Poisons to livestock • Nitrate toxicity • Prussic acid poisoning

  6. Problems with PuttingUp Quality Forage • Insect and animal pests • Deer • Grasshopper • Blister Beetle • Alfalfa Aphid • Alfalfa Weevil • Armyworm (Moth)

  7. Methods of Hay Storage • Round bale storage • Use of preservatives

  8. Do…..

  9. Don’t…..

  10. Proper Forage Sampling and Analysis • Collect forage samples • Proper sampling equipment • Forage tests & laboratories

  11. Proper Hay Sampling Method • Need a cross-section sample of of entire bale • See picture for positioning • For square bales take core sample from the end of bale.

  12. Evaluating Forage Quality • Understand/Interpret feed analysis reports • NDF/ADF • Energy Content • Protein • Feed value for livestock • Visual appraisal

  13. Silage Production Procedures & Techniques • Harvesting • Ensiling • Adding anhydrous ammonia • Adding urea • Baling

  14. Seed Production Procedures and Techniques • Cool Season Grasses • Red Clover

  15. Conclusions • Understanding what quality forage is • Taking proper forage samples • Knowing locations of laboratories • Realizing livestock nutrition needs

  16. continued… • Determining if stored forage will meet nutritional needs of livestock • Understanding steps necessary for putting up quality forage • Realizing most economical storage methods

  17. continued… • Being aware of possible ways to stretch winter forage supplies • Knowing management procedures and techniques necessary for quality silage and seed production

  18. Putting Knowledge into Practice… • Utilize forage test information to make the necessary management decisions for livestock nutritional requirements.

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