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The article offers guidelines in determining the best forage varieties to attain better yield distribution throughout the season which includes determining seed quality, and finding the percent generation.

The article offers ways on how to choose the best and high quality alfalfa seed.

The article discusses the significance of testing forages. It mentions that knowing what is in the hay by testing it to determine the crude protein, acid detergent fiber (ADF), calcium, and neutral detergent fiber content of hay that are essential to cows. It notes that ADF is essential for better animal performance and crude protein, calcium, and phosphorous are needed for beef cows that are nursing calves and milking dairy cows.

The article offers information on selecting good seed for growing forage, wherein the website www.uwex.edu/ces/forage is provided for one to check for varieties that may benefit a forage grower.

The article discusses the importance of testing forage plants repeatedly for accurate results. Topics discussed include the variation in forage analysis, results of the National Forage Testing Association regarding the same and determination of actual animal production from a forage and other feedstuff. Other topics discussed include results of standard deviation for forage analysis and average value of alfalfa samples.

The article focuses on the importance of checking the ash level of forage being fed to the animals.

The article reports on the importance of testing the ash content in hay and haylage before feeding to the farm animals and also informs about the impact of high ash content in hay on the metabolic activity of digestive system of animals.

In this article, the author reflects on an increase in the yield of stockpiled forage due to the good late-season rainfall and temperature patterns in Dakotas as of November 2014 and mentions that it has increased grazing season for animals and reduced the costs of harvesting or buying forage.

The article discusses the benefit of nitrogen application to pastures.

The article offers suggestions for hay storage informing that it should contain less than 5 percent loss of dry matter in storage and discusses the causes of storage losses from heat, soil moisture and rain damage and methods for minimizing them using storage shed.

The article offers tips for getting hay dry for storage citing reference to total digestible nutrient (TDN) loss due to heating caused by baling hay too wet. Topics discussed include use of preservative containing a high percentage of propionate, making smaller bales for greater heat loss, and wrapping the bales in plastic and eliminating oxygen to stop respiration and heating. It also presents a graph depicting the need of propionic acid to preserve hay at different moisture contents.

The article focuses on the significance of baleage as a farm practice to store and preserve forages, by maintaining anaerobic conditions, in wet or dry form. Topics discussed include need to harvest alfalfa at the mid-bud stage and grass at the boot stage for milking dairy cows, significance of the dense structure of bales in reducing the oxygen content leading to plant and microbial respiratory loss to dry matter, and need to prevent the use of Lactobacillus bacteria for baleage.

The article identifies reasons why farmers should turn their harvesting chores to custom harvesters. The list include rising cost of harvesting machinery, consistent quality of harvest due to the shorter harvest time, access to latest technology by contract harvesters among others. Advice is given that contract harvesters must clarify details on the labor, equipment and process they will provide. Written contracts are recommended to ensure all concerns are covered.

The article offers tips which can be used to minimize ash content of forage. Tips discussed include avoid harvesting lodged forage, using flat knives on the disc mowers, and storing silage piles or tubes on concrete or asphalt. It also suggests the significance of appropriate harvesting and storage management.

The article focuses on the factors that have resulted in increased need of sulfur by forage plants including increasing efforts to reduce acid rain and removing of sulfur by grass and alfalfa and mentions the use of tissue test and commercial fertilizer for maintaining sulfur content in soil.

The article focuses on an analysis by presenting a graph which depicts the relationship between various varieties of alfalfa seeds, seed quality and their yield which could be used as forage for cows, as of January 2014.

The author suggests the farmers of the U.S. for growing forages as well as analysis of forages and states that ration for the animals to be fed is such that there is optimum production of milk or meat and supplement cost is minimized.

The article offers suggestions on pasture management to increase the production of forage and mentions the significance of nutrients for the growth of grasses and clovers.

This article discusses the benefits of using bale recutters. It is inferred that the precutters can add value to the hay user since the hay prices have increased. The bales made with recutter attachment are easier to break up and the shorter hay pieces are evenly and better distributed in a total mixed ration mixer. It is inferred that the growing animals fed with bales from recutters waste less. The balers with recutters are advantageous due to better hay and haylage feeding characteristics.

The article reports on assessing the effect of winter in forages such as grasses and alfalfa in which it suggests to check soil fertility and the applied potassium and sulfur.

The article presents information on the importance of choosing good variety of grass by the farmers in the U.S. It informs that many of the farmers decide on the species but never focus on the variety and just by the seeds which are the cheapest. It further informs that the farmers should focus on several parameters including yield, winterhardiness and maturation time for the varieties.

The article offers information on safety measures that should be taken by farmers for using forages for feeding their cattle. It states that farmer should check the forage quality of cornstalks and their quality can be improved by ammoniation or adding hydrated lime. It further presents procedure for ammoniation process and hydrated lime soda treatment for improving forage quality.

The article discusses the author's suggestions on ways to improve grazing quality when feeding cornstalks to cattle, which include testing for nitrate and anhydrous ammonia.

The article focuses on food quality for cattle and discusses to overcome the concerns of unavailability if of cornstalks. It informs that grazing of cattle can decrease the product yield from cattle as cornstalks contain six percent crude protein and possess 35 percent to 60 percent digestibility. It analyzes the impact of drought stress on crop yield.

The article offers some tips for farmers on the factors to be considered before feeding corn silage after its storage including fermentation, aflatoxin, and climate.

The article reports that cattle, sheep and other' ruminants have the unique ability to digest cellulose, the main component in plant cell walls, to produce energy for themselves. factors. Total plant fiber as neutral detergent fiber (NDF), using that to estimate intake, and then use acid detergent fiber (ADF), primarily cellulose and lignin, to estimate energy content

The article offers some tips for livestock owners on how to avoid animal poisoning due to nitrate in 2012.

The article offers tips for farmers on how to figure the value of standing hay in the U.S.

The article provides information on the effective control of perennial weeds dandelions growth during its establishment period by a forage stand. INSET: Key Points.

The article informs about the need of nutrients for pastures and hay field's growth in the U.S.

The article discusses the nutritional requirements of pastures and hay fields.

The article focuses on the reasons behind forage failure which includes failure to raise soil pH to optimum levels, seeding into loose soil and seeding too deep with a drill.

The article provides information on the importance of potassium to plants and also offers several suggestions for the management of potassium for plant growth including finding ways to get grazing animals to urinate in the pastures, spreading of hays in the farms and consideration of split application of potassium.

The article offers suggestions to the farmers for maintaining proper potassium content of their lands for better farm yields.

The article discusses the conservation of hay with the use of bale feeder that cuts costs. It focuses on the feeder that features a polywire attached to a battery-operated charger that reduces hay loss of about 20-40 percent during feeding. An overview of the result of feeding trial in Michigan on 40 beef cattle exposes to different feeder type such as the feeder with cradle, with a trailer, and with a ring type is provided.

The article provides insights on how to ensure forage quality of fall residue in the U.S.

The article discusses the significance of total digestible nutrients (TDN) loss from heat damage that could result to the decrease of animal and economic value of the harvested forage. It mentions that each one percent loss of sugars and starches (NFC) is equivalent to a one percent loss in TDN. It presents a chart depicting the TDN loss from heating.

The article reports on the late-summer seeding of alfalfa fodder and other forages based on available soil moisture, weather conditions and estimated forage demands.

The article offers information on the significance of timely cutting of hay or haylage of farmers in Minnesota in preserving the quality of the forage.

The article discusses when to control weeds in established alfalfa. It is inferred that controlling weeds in an established alfalfa depends on whether the hay or haylage is going to be fed personally or will be marketed. The yield benefits of controlling weeds from grain crops compared to its benefits from forages are discussed. A table is included which indicates how herbicide applied previously affects quackgrass-infested alfalfa stands.

The article reports on the significance of expanding fermentation in preserving the haylage in the U.S.

The article offers information on the preservation of forage through the absence of oxygen and fermentation to produce inorganic acids.

The article offers tips for forage growers on how to improve the production of their alfalfa, clover and grass forage in Minnesota.

The article reports on the importance of proper distribution of yield in the growth of perennial forages in the U.S.

The article offers information on the benefit of alfalfa, grasses and other perennial forages, which is the continued production across the growing season.

The article offers insights on the importance of testing the nutrients of forages hay for heifers or other animals.

The article focuses on the significance of a good seed and offers tips for its proper selection such as finding the test date on the tag, the level of seed purity, and its germination.