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Forage resilience conference touches on several interesting topics

The U.S. Postal Service had stopped producing stamped envelopes with watermarked paper in 1991.

Northern Plains Forage Association is working to help state and regional forage growers produce sustainable, quality and profitable forage products.

CONTROLLING WINTER ANNUAL BROMES Was cheatgrass, sometimes called downy brome, or wild oats abundant in your pastures this spring? Although difficult, they can be controlled and your pasture revitalized. Winter annual bromes often invade thin or...

Dan Undersander, forage professor emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, said there are numerous situations where farmers wondered why forage quality was not as expected. “The farmers did not recognize

As alfalfa stands break dormancy, growers should make plans to evaluate the health of stands and determine if there was winter injury.

The pollination period, or the flowering stage in corn, is the most critical period in the development of a corn plant.

Check with financial advisers to see if buying land makes sense.

By 1/25/2021 Heading into hay season 2021, there are a few trends that farmers should watch, says forage agronomist Dan Undersander, University of Wisconsin. First, there are new races to some alfalfa diseases, such as anthracnose, and some alfalfa varieties have been developed with resistance to disease, says Undersander.  Second, aphanomyces root rot in alfalfa is getting worse, and some new resistant genetics are worthwhile, says Undersander. When he started research on aph...

The Maryland-Delaware Virtual Forage Conference will be held over two days, Jan. 14 and 19, beginning at 9 a.m. each day. The featured speakers are Drs. Chris Teutsch and Dan Undersander. Teutsch will speak on "Strategies to Boost Summer Production Using Warm Season Forages." Undersander will speak on "Drying Hay When Mother Nature Doesnt Cooperate." Other presentation topics will include pasture renovation, weed management for pasture and hayfields, maintaining forage stand persistence, and o...