• Switchgrass as a Biofuel:  Is it Economically Feasible?

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)

Alfalfa

• Identifying Winter Kill in Alfalfa
• Ice Encasement and Alfalfa Frost Damage
• Assessing the Frost and Flood Damage in Your Alfalfa
• Sod Seeding Alfalfa
• Improving Survival of Sod-Seeded Alfalfa
• Sensitivity of Alfalfa and Hulless Barley to Seed-Placed Phosphate Fertilizer
• Seeding Alfalfa into Alfalfa (U of Wisconsin)
• Alfalfa Autotoxicity (OMAFRA)
• Winter Survival of Alfalfa
• 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)
• Getting Out of Alfalfa With Herbicides (HTML)

Legumes

• Soybeans as a Forage Crop (OMAFRA)
• Alsike Clover Poisoning, Photosensitization or Photodermatitis in Horses (OMAFRA)
• Sainfoin (Foragebeef.ca)
• Kura Clover: a New Pasture Legume for Ontario? (OMAFRA)
• Red Clover Haylage (OMAFRA)
• Cicer Milkvetch and Sainfoin: Two Non-Bloating Perennial Legumes and Their Grazing Potential

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)

Forage Establishment

• Sod Seeding into Existing Forage Stands (PDF)
• Sod Seeding Manual: Seeding forages into existing stands using minimal tillage (PDF)
• Summer Seeding Forages (OMAFRA)
• Tips for Improving Forage Establishment Success (PDF)
• Establishment of Timothy Hay for Export
• Forage Seed Mixture Calculator

Winter Survival of Forage Stands

• Early Spring Impacts on Forages

Soils and Fertility

• The Benefits of Including Forages in Your Crop Rotation (PDF version)
• Forage Crops: Fertilizer  (PDF version)
• Fertilizing Forage Stands
• Manure Application Rate Calculator (downloadable software)
• Legume Inoculation Cuts Fertilizer Need
• 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)
• Control of Richardson Ground Squirrels

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

• Machinery Designs and Adjustments for Minimized Field Losses - U of Wisconsin (PDF)

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?  (HTML) (PDF)
• Low Stress Livestock Handling (PDF)
• Snow as a Water Source for Wintering Cattle (PDF)
• Livestock Wintering: Locating and Managing Your Site to Make it More Sustainable (HTML) (PDF)
• Basics and Benefits of Bale Grazing (PDF)
• Quick Guide to Extended Grazing (PDF)
• Grazing Cattle on Corn (PDF)
• Winter Grazing Opions (PDF)
• Extending Livestock Feed Supplies
• Feeding Fusarium-Contaminated Grain to Livestock
• Management of Problem Feeds
• Pasture Planner
• Producing Forage Finished Beef in Manitoba

          Other Livestock Feeding Information:   

• Feeds and Feeding
• Beef
• Dairy
• Sheep
• Other

Forage Quality

• Understanding Forage Quality and Winter Feeding of PMU Horses
• The Fine Art of Forage Sampling
• Manitoba Horse Hay: Nutrition and Feeding
• High Quality Hay Management (PDF)
• 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)
• 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
• Using Preservatives and Drying Agents to Improve Hay Quality
• How Rain Affects the Quality of your Hay
• Manitoba Average Forage Mineral Concentrations (PDF)
• Manitoba Average Feed Values for the Cash Hay Producer (PDF)
• Manitoba Average Feed Values for the Beef/Bison/Sheep Producer (PDF)
• Manitoba Average Feed Values for the Dairy Producer (PDF)

 

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

• The Basics and Benefits of Bale Grazing (PDF)

• Alfalfa is Not Bloat Safe After a Killing Frost

• Management Practices From the Best (HTML) (PDF)

• Getting Started With Intensive Grazing

• Rotational Grazing

• Multi-Species Grazing

• Multi-Species Grazing for Leafy Spurge

• Grazing Alfalfa With Horses

• A Guide to Management Intensive Grazing

• Dairy Cows on Pasture

• Prevention of Pasture Bloat in Cattle Grazing Alfalfa (PDF)

• 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
• Using Preservatives and Drying Agents to Improve Hay Quality

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)

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

• Forage-Related Publications
• Manitoba Forage and Grassland Reference Manual