Manitoba has excellent soils and climate to grow high quality forage. The long growing days and cool nights results in forages with lower lignification than forages grown in southern climates. The high quality can result in excellent animal performance and sheep are excellent converters of forage to meat, wool and milk.

Manitoba sheep producers have developed forage/livestock systems both extensive and intensive which make excellent use of the forage available.

• Harvesting Quality Forage
• Estimating Hay Cost of Production
• Estimating Cost of Forage Storage Options
• Introduction to Silage
• Baled Silage Production & Management
• Baled Haylage for Sheep
• Management of Problem Feeds
• Forage Preservatives

• Multi-species Grazing
• Management Intensive Grazing
• How to Determine Stocking Rates for Manitoba Pastures
• Supplemental Pastures for Sheep
• Sheep and Multi-species Grazing
• Sheep Grazing Management
• Pasture FAQ
• Lamb Performance on Stockpiled Pasture
• Leafy Spurge Control
• Leafy Spurge in Manitoba

• Electric Fencing for Sheep in Adobe Acrobat .pdf format
• High Tensile Fencing
   

Pasture Listing

• Manitoba Pasture List

Forage Marketing

• Manitoba Hay Listing Service

• Eastern Region

• Northwest Region
• Biocontrol of Leafy Spurge - Central Region

• Ontario Ministry of Agriculture & Food (OMAFRA), Forages and Pastures
• Saskatchewan Agriculture
• Alberta Agriculture
• British Columbia Ministry of Agriculture, Sheep
• Minnesota Department of Agriculture
• Wisconsin Department of Agriculture, Trade & Consumer Protection