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Manitoba Agriculture, Food and Rural Initiatives
Forage Agronomy
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Species and Variety Selection
- Forage Adaptation and Comparison Guide (PDF)
- Common Manitoba Hay Varieties
- Selecting Grass Varieties
- Selecting Alfalfa Varieties for Manitoba
- Seed Manitoba: Variety Selection and Grower's Guide
- Endophytes in Perennial Ryegrass and Tall Fescue Straw
- How to Purchase High Quality Forage Seed (AAFRD)
Grasses
- Cover Crops: Ryegrass (OMAFRA)
- About Meadow Bromegrass (AAFRD)
- About Smooth Bromegrass (AAFRD)
- About Reed Canarygrass (AAFRD)
- About Creeping Red Fescue (AAFRD)
- About Meadow Fescue (AAFRD)
- About Tall Fescue (AAFRD)
- About Orchardgrass (AAFRD)
- About Altai Wildrye (AAFRD)
- About Dahurian Wildrye (AAFRD)
- About Russian Wildrye (AAFRD)
- About Perennial Ryegrass (AAFRD)
- About Meadow Foxtail (AAFRD)
- About Creeping Foxtail (AAFRD)
- About Crested Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
- About Intermediate Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
- About Northern Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
- About Pubescent Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
- About Slender Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
- About Streambank Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
- About Tall Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
- About Western Wheatgrass (AAFRD)
Legumes
- Soybeans as a Forage Crop (OMAFRA)
- Alsike Clover Poisoning, Photosensitization or Photodermatitis in Horses (OMAFRA)
- Kura Clover: a New Pasture Legume for Ontario? (OMAFRA)
-
Red
Clover Haylage (OMAFRA)
Annual Forage Crops
- Forage Barleys for Manitoba (PDF)
- Annual Crops: an Excellent Way to Increase Your Feeding Flexibility (PDF version)
- Annual Forage Crops for Manitoba
- Forage Production from Spring Cereals and Cereal-Pea Mixtures (OMAFRA)
-
Harvest Maturity Affects Quantity and Quality of Cereal
Silage (OMAFRA)
Forage Establishment
- Sod Seeding Alfalfa
- Sod Seeding into Existing Forage Stands (PDF)
- Improving Survival of Sod-Seeded Alfalfa
- Summer Seeding Forages (OMAFRA)
- Tips for Improving Forage Establishment Success (PDF)
- Establishment of Timothy Hay for Export
- Sensitivity of Alfalfa and Hulless Barley to Seed-Placed Phosphate Fertilizer
Alfalfa Autotoxicity
Winter Survival of Forage Stands
- Winter Survival of Alfalfa
- Early Spring Impacts on Forages
- Alfalfa Winter Kill Risk Factors (OMAFRA)
- Assessing an Alfalfa Stand - Is it a Keeper? (OMAFRA)
- Alfalfa Winterkill Weather Factors (OMAFRA)
- Critical Fall Harvest Period for Alfalfa
- Protect Alfalfa from Winterkill (PDF)
Soils and Fertility
- The Benefits of Including Forages in Your Crop Rotation (PDF version)
- Forage Crops: Fertilizer (PDF version)
- Fertilizing Forage Stands
- Manitoba Soil Fertility Guide
- Manure Applications and the Soil Environment
- Manure as a Resource
- Manure Nitrogen Losses and Prevention
- Manure Application Rate Calculator (downloadable software)
- Calculation of Manure Application Rates
- Crop Rotations and Timing of Manure Applications
- Legume Inoculation Cuts Fertilizer Need
- Moisture Requirements for Forage Crops
- Manitoba Soil Science Society Soils Agronomy Database
- Sensitivity of Alfalfa and Hulless Barley to Seed-Placed Phosphate Fertilizer
- Green Manure
Pest Management
Insects
- Guide to Crop Protection
- Scouting for Insect Pests
- Natural Enemies of Pests Associated With Prairie Crops (AAFC)
- True Armyworm and Fall Armyworm
- Bertha Armyworm I
- Bertha Armyworm II
- Cutworms I
- Cutworms II
- European Corn Borer I
- European Corn Borer II
- Grasshoppers: Biology, Control and Scouting
- Grasshopper Management on Pastures, Rangelands, Hay, Headlands and Roadsides
- Grasshoppers
- Lygus Bug
- Aphids on Peas
- Wireworms
- Northern Pocket Gopher: Biology and Management (PDF)
Plant Diseases
- Downy Mildew
- Management of Diseases of Alfalfa Seed
- Scouting for Diseases
- Disease and Deficiencies in Forages
- Guide to Crop Protection
Weeds
- Scouting for Weeds
- Integrated Management of Leafy Spurge
- Multi-Species Grazing for Leafy Spurge
- Managing Kochia
- Weed Control in Forage Crops
- Weed Control in Pastures
- Weed Seeds in Manure
- Guide to Crop Protection
- Weed Seedling Identification Guide
Equipment
Feeding
- Perennial Ryegrass: Endophyte Feeding Concerns
- Backgrounding With Manitoba Forage (PDF)
- Utilizing High Nitrate Feeds Safely
- Forage Barleys for Manitoba (PDF)
- Remote Winter Watering Systems for Beef Cattle (PDF)
- Greenfeed and Green Manure Options
- Feeding Quality of Stockpiled Forage (PDF)
- Sustainable Livestock Wintering: How Can it Work for You? (PDF version)
- Low Stress Livestock Handling (PDF)
-
Snow as a Water Source for Wintering Cattle (PDF)
Forage Quality
- Management of Problem Feeds
- Understanding Forage Quality and Winter Feeding of PMU Horses
- The Fine Art of Forage Sampling (OMAFRA)
- OMAF Poisonous Plant Quiz (OMAFRA)
- Poisoning of Horses by Plants (OMAFRA)
- Poisoning of Livestock by Plants (OMAFRA)
- Alsike Clover Poisoning, Photosensitization or Photodermatitis in Horses (OMAFRA)
- Are There Differences Between Feed Testing Laboratories?
- Maps of Relative Feed Value in Alfalfa for Manitoba
- Manitoba Green Gold Program
- Norwest Lab’s 1997 Provincial Forage Summary
- Choosing the Correct Forage Analysis Package
- Forage Quality Prediction Model Up and Running for Second Year - June 2001
- Managing Forage Stands in a Dry and Cool Manitoba Spring - June 2002
- Typical Forage Nutrient Analyses
- Can Forage Quality Be Too Good for Cows?
- Hay Certification Program
- Selenium Levels in Interlake Forages
- Endophytes in Perennial Ryegrass and Tall Fescue Straw
- Utilizing High Nitrate Feeds Safely
- Nitrates in Stressed Crops
- How to Handle Drought-Stressed Alfalfa
Pasture Production
Pasture
- Forage Barleys in Manitoba (PDF)
- Managing Forage Stands in a Dry and Cool Manitoba Spring
- Pasture for Rent and Pasture Wanted
- Pasture Management
- Animal Unit Months, Stocking Rate and Carrying Capacity
- Bonnycastle Pasture Project Proves Beneficial to Agriculture and Wildlife
Grazing Strategies
-
Grazing Cattle on Corn (PDF)
Extending the Grazing Season
- Winter Grazing Options (PDF)
- A Quick Guide to Extended Grazing (PDF)
- Livestock Wintering: Locating and Managing Your Site to Make it More Sustainable (HTML) (PDF)
- Stockpiled Forages
- Stockpiling Perennial Forages for Fall and Winter Grazing (OMAFRA)
- Effect of Management System and Nitrogen Application (OMAFRA)
- Lamb Performance on Two Stockpiling Systems (OMAFRA)
- Effect of Harvest Date on the Yield and Quality of Stockpiled Grass (OMAFRA)
- Effect of Stockpile Grazing in Fall on Forage Production the Following Season (OMAFRA)
- 'Twas The Night Before Christmas… and the Cattle Were Grazing (OMAFRA)
- Increasing Cow/Calf Profitability Using Chaff and Chaff/Straw Feedstuffs (AAFRD)
- Swath Grazing in Western Canada: an Introduction (AAFRD)
Fencing and Watering
- Everything You Need to Know About Electric Fencing
- High Tensile Smooth Wire Fence for Pasture Subdivision and Predator Control (Virginia State University)
- Wire Fences for Livestock Management (AAFC)
- Farm Fencing Systems (OMAFRA)
- Pasture Pumping Systems
-
Pasture Water Systems
for Livestock
(AAFRD)
Hay/Silage Production
- The Basics of Marketing Cash Hay (PDF)
- Baled Silage Production (PDF)
- High Quality Hay Management (PDF)
- Management Practices From the Best
- Harvesting and Storage of Quality Hay and Silage
- Harvesting Timothy Hay for Export
- Harvest Maturity Affects Quantity and Quality of Cereal Silage (OMAFRA)
- An Introduction to Silage
- Soybeans as a Forage Crop (OMAFRA)
- Recycling Farm Plastic Films (OMAFRA)
- Tips for Tarping and Shedding Quality Cash Hay
- Ammoniation of Forages
- Forage Preservatives
- The Breakdown on Hay Preservatives and Additives
- Registered Non-Nutrient Forage Additives - CFIA (PDF)
- Fall Harvest Management of Alfalfa
- Critical Fall Harvest Period for Alfalfa
Seed Production
- Forage Seed Production in Manitoba
- Forage and Grass Seed Production Guide (MFSA)
- Alfalfa Seed Production
- Management of Diseases of Alfalfa Seed
- Birdsfoot Trefoil Seed Production
- Sweet Clover Seed Production
- Timothy Seed Production
-
Kentucky Bluegrass Seed Production
Other References
- Insects Infesting Seed Alfalfa in the Prairie Provinces (AAFC)
- Forage and Grass Seed Production Guide (MFSA)
- Native Grass Seed Production Manual - Ducks Unlimited
- New Grass Seed Crop System Development - ARDI project
-
Forage Seed News
(MFSA)
Stand Termination
Research
- Approved Projects - Forage (ARDI)
- Covering New Ground - search database for forage projects
- Forages Improve Efficiency of Prairie Cropping Systems
- U.S. Dairy Forage Research Center (USDA)
- Department of Plant Science, University of Manitoba
-
Alberta Agricultural Research Institute
Forage Publications
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