by Doug Mayo | Nov 13, 2020
This week’s featured video was published by Lisa Baxter, UGA Forage Specialist, to discuss tools for determining forage moisture at harvest. Drying forage to the correct moisture percentage for hay, or wilting adequately for baleage is a very important step to...
by Daniel J. Leonard | Oct 30, 2020
In recent years, thanks to the work of Forage Agronomy Specialists Dr. Jose Dubeux, Dr. Ann Blount and others at the NFREC Marianna, many Panhandle cattlemen have begun integrating perennial peanut (Arachis glabrata) into traditional bahiagrass and bermudagrass...
by Marcelo Wallau | Sep 25, 2020
Video Cool-Season Forage Tour Typically the forage extension specialists provide tours of their forage demonstration and evaluation plots each spring, but this year, due to COVID19, they filmed the tour to share with producers. Dr. Ann Blount, UF/IFAS Forage...
by Daniel J. Leonard | May 15, 2020
A cattle producer contacted me earlier this spring to investigate a “pretty but unusual” weed that had quickly spread over a pasture. This field had been planted this past fall with certified oat seed for winter forage. While definitely pretty, it was obvious that...
by Libbie Johnson | Feb 28, 2020
Throughout the Southeast, anyone driving in the countryside will come across beautiful green fields planted with cover crops in cash crop fields or in pastures used for livestock grazing. Often, a single species is planted, but some growers uses mixes in their...
