From field to feed: Growing healthy forages

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"This special edition brings to you a curated blend (no pun intended) of articles and podcast episodes to provide useful tips, research insights and more for growing forages."

Jill Filmer, east editor

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Preparing Your Crop Rotation for a Successful Forage Plan

Review crop rotations now to ensure ample forage for winter and future seasons. Smart planting choices can replenish and sustain your forage supply.

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Agronomic tips and tricks

OMAFA: Filling forage gaps with triticale

Selecting the right annual forage crop starts with deciding when the feed is needed. Winter cereals offer more options for when and how to harvest than other annual crops.

OMAFA: Processing forages for better beef cow performance?

Although forage choppers and bale processors are not new technologies, there is a surprising lack of data in how they can benefit beef cow performance. This University of Guelph study took a deeper dive.

Preparing Your Crop Rotation for a Successful Forage Plan

▶ Sponsored by - DLF Canada Inc.

Review crop rotations now to ensure ample forage for winter and future seasons. Smart planting choices can replenish and sustain your forage supply.

OMAFA: Considerations for forage crop harvest

If you're thinking of one final cut to your forage crop, the crop specialists at the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture, Food and Agribusiness (OMAFA) have a few recommendations to help preserve yield and quality.

Features

Restoring marginal land with forages

A range of benefits follows planting forages in marginal areas damaged by compaction, erosion or salinity issues.

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A fresh look at fertilizer rates for Ontario forages

Improving nutrient-use efficiencies could help forage growers to sustain yields while reducing fertilizer inputs – and that makes sense economically and environmentally.

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A big boost for bromegrass breeding

In many crops, genomic resources are powering greater advances in varietal improvement. However, development of such resources for bromegrass crop species has been hindered because these species have very large, very complex genomes.

Legume-based cover crop opportunities

This University of Guelph project is assessing options, like use as forages, to make cover cropping more economically attractive in the short term.

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Back to Basics: Cover crops in Ontario
▶ Aug 13

Exploring forage crop options
▶ Nov 8

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